01/19/2015 - This week, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, meets under the theme "The New Global Context".
On this issue, Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who is one of the speakers at the event:
“The risks of unabated global warming - from weather extremes to regional water scarcity - are at core of the ‘new global context’ that the Davos meeting will be exploring. The most recent 2014 heat record is indeed the new normal and insignificant compared to the records we’re already programming into the Earth system by emitting more and more greenhouse gases. This year now offers a unique chance for decision-makers, be it at the G7-meeting or at the world climate conference in Paris, to steer the course of human history – one way, or the other.”
Link to the World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org/
