Speech delivered at Foreign Correspondents Club of China
Sealing the Hole and Sealing the Deal: Convenient opportunity
To address
Inconvenient truth.
By Rajendra Shende, Head OzonAction, United nations Environment Programme, Paris
17th September 2009
By middle of December 2009, just about couple of months from now, when the Copenhagen climate summit would be over, the world would wake up to either of two dawning realisations i.e. the meaningful and adequate ‘deal is sealed’ to set humanity on the right track to address climate change or we have set the world on life threatening runaway wild fire. We are today uncertain on outcome.
Just about fortnight from thence, on 1st January 2010, the world would wake up to a definite and certain reality i.e. a world without chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances. On that day the production and consumption chemicals that harm the life supporting ozone layer would be assigned to the history books. Already more than 98 percent...