Climate change ‘bigger issue than economic woes’

TACKLING climate change, and not the global economic crisis, is the greatest challenge facing humanity, international experts will tell a major conference in Cork next month.

Nobel Laureate Dr RK Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Professor James Hansen, the leading scientist on global warming and head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, are among the high-profile speakers lined up for the inaugural conference of the Partnership for Change.

The partnership is a new initiative set up to educate and communicate on the challenge of climate change and global warming.