GATHERING OF CLIMATE CHANGE VOICES

Daily Planet Media will be part of the CNN initiative that involves a gathering of Climate Change Principal Voices in Chicago on 29 September.

CNN has the same view as Daily Planet Media asserted three years ago that the world has moved on from debating whether global warming and climate change is human-made - and that it's time to find solutions.

The growing consensus is that the planet is in a perilous state, and that a binding framework of solutions is urgently needed to deal with the present threat posed by imploding climate change.

The Principal Voices gathering in Chicago will include the expertise of Dr Rajendra Pachauri (pictured left), 2007 Nobel Laureate, and chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang. Dr Pachauri cites the lack of action by developed countries on climate change as "tragic".

The vast majority of people surveyed by Daily Planet Media support Dr Pachauri's opinion that a more enlightened view of the "developing versus developed" country situation is desperately needed. But what exactly should be prioritized in the framework of operandi for the Kyoto Protocol successor to be determined in Copenhagen next year?

Daily Planet Media supports - as a first priority objective - that the world reduces human-made greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in 2020 and 50% in 2050.

The successful resolution for a package of solutions lies in a carrots and sticks approach to bring about a new green revolution to replace fossil fuels with renewable energies resulting a cleaner environment with less poverty and more quality living.

The U.N. IPCC reports concluded that likely imploding climate change will have dire consequences especially on the most delicately balanced ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs and the glaciers that fill Earth's major river systems. Water scarcity is already today's reality and up to 3 billion people will face clean water shortage problems by 2025.

Clearly climate change has the potential to be the "mother of all wars" with the main battle lines being fought in the overpopulated developing and developed cities where millions of tonnes of climate changing emissions are generated.