Meet on climate change

NEW DELHI: A day-long conference on Climate Change and Environmental Leadership was held on Monday where experts discussed the issue ahead of the COP-8 summit on climate change. The United Nations (UN) summit will begin from October 23.
Experts from Jawaharlal Nehru University and UN said high-level political negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 should have given adequate attention to climate change in the larger environmental debate.This, however, did not happen.
"It is now incumbent on the civil society to bring this issue to public debate," said United Nations university professor Vinayak Rao. The event was organised by a voluntary organisation — Leadership for Environment and Development — Indian Society for International Law and JNU’s Centre for Diplomatic studies.
It included sessions on UN and climate change, science and climate change, civil society and climate change. The sessions were attended by Chinmaya Gharekhan, former permanent representative to UN, Prof Pushpesh Pant (JNU) and Ram Niwas Mirdha, president of Indian Society of Internal Law.