29/06/09

One hundred senior legislators from around the world met in Rome over on June 11th and 12th, 2009 and announced that developed countries should transfer at least USD 90-140 billion per year to the developing nations for mitigation technologies and adaptation.

The senior legislators from the developed countries that support these measures include Senator Antonio D’Ali, Chairman of the Environment Committee of the Italian Senate, Representative Takashi Kosugi, former Cabinet Minister for Education & Science in Japan and current Chairman of the Labour Democratic party’s Japan’s Environment Research Council; Serge Poignant, member of the Finance Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies, Michael Kauch, FDP Member of the German Bundestag, Steen Gade, Chair of the Folketing Environment Committee in Denmark and Stephen Byers MP, President of Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) and former Cabinet Minister for Energy & Trade in the UK.

Senior legislators from the developing countries that support this include Congressman Wang Guangtao, Chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Environment Protection & Resources Conservation of China, Congresssman Jose Espinosa Pina, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico and Senadora Serys Slhessarenko, Deputy President of the Senate of Brazil,

The legislators meeting organized by the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE), the international alliance of legislators committed to supporting progressive leadership from heads of government of the G8 and G20, and opened by President Gianfranco Fini, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies,  will call on developed countries to show leadership prior to the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December to agree a post-2012 climate change framework. The legislators believe that such commitments will help G8 countries prepare their own publics for the massive transfer of wealth from the developed to the developing world that is needed to help them tackle, and adapt to, climate change.  The G8 should publicly recognise the scale of the costs of mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

To read the full press release and the Forum Statement click on the links to the right.