Time to Act "Before It's Too Late"

Journalists are skeptical about the promises made at the annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to combat climate change. Der Bund, a Swiss newspaper, agreed that global warming had set the tone for this year's WEF. However, it said, the prominent participants failed to work out any revolutionary new strategy to combat the problem.         

The optimism in Davos was only "window dressing" claimed the Geneva-based Le Temps. There was a lot of talk about restarting the Doha round of global trade talks and climate change, but this was, to a large extent, 'hot air', according to Le Temps.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it would be madness not to at least try to stop climate change. The World Economic Forum assessed the risk of climate change and pointed to evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are growing faster than expected. [Read full story ¦ iNSnet.org]