Georgetown : Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Rajendra Kumar has been very outspoken on climate change issues and has been working to raise awareness and mobilise support for adaptation, mitigation and clean energy resources.
Dr. Kumar who visited Guyana over the weekend said, as far as climate change is concerned, the world has to move quickly, while at the same time paying attention to the vulnerable regions. This he said has to be brought to the attention of the leaders in the developed countries.
“Guyana’s President has been extremely effective in spreading this message and we have to work together to intensify it,” the IPCC Chairman said.
President Jagdeo in response said that as a result of the tremendous work done with regards to climate change by scientists and the IPCC, majority of the world has become believers and the skeptics are now small in number.
However, he lamented that this small number continues to prey on the ignorance of persons who are not yet fully exposed to the science, simply because the media does not find the topic of climate change an attractive one, while some have biases and for this reason, the much needed support from the developing world is lacking.
He explained that while there is need to continuously update the science and keep showing the stark picture of what will happen; efforts have to be made to ensure the creation of sound policies based on the commitment on the part of the developing world.
“Unless the United States takes the leadership, the other countries are not going to do much more,” President Jagdeo said.
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