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Redefining the challenge of climate change.

Publication: One Country
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Redefining the challenge of climate change.(PERSPECTIVE)

Article Excerpt
Decades of research, advocacy and policymaking have provided a strong scientific basis for action on climate change, have raised public awareness, and have provided norms and principles to guide decision-making. Building on this foundation, the governments of the world have embarked on a major negotiating effort aimed at charting the course of cooperative action on climate change. The negotiations focus on a shared vision for long-term cooperative action as well as a long-term global goal for emission reductions, which is to be met through mitigation of climate change, adaptation to its impacts and the mobilization of technological and financial resources.

Yet, in the face of the destructive impacts of climate change--exacerbated by the extremes of wealth and poverty--a need for new approaches centered on the principles of justice and equity is apparent. The challenge before the world community is not only a technical one but a moral one, which calls for the transformation of thoughts and behaviors so as to allow our economic and social structures to extend the benefits of development to all people.

We assert that the principle of the oneness of humankind must become the ruling principle of international life. This principle does not seek to undermine national autonomy or...

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