Open AccessLegislators urge carbon emissions cuts
Author(s) -
Kumar Mohi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2007eo090004
Subject(s) - global warming , greenhouse gas , poverty , climate change , natural resource economics , global temperature , political science , carbon fibers , environmental science , economics , development economics , economic growth , ecology , computer science , algorithm , composite number , biology
Legislators from the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emitting countries met on 14–15 February in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of the global climate and strategies to mitigate temperature increases resulting from global warming. The world faces a “double challenge— how to reduce damaging carbon emissions while still meeting the energy demand that the world's poor need to escape poverty,” said World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz during a keynote talk.