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| UIA - 1.2 million architects adopt C&C |  [log in to unmask]&mid=1721542335&eto=@9DA4D29DDF2861D327E88F14FD6B6791159AB85F9692F36B','Mail','toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=yes,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,width=620,height=450'); return true" href="http:[log in to unmask]&sort=d&start=719#">Aubrey Meyer |
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The UIA is abody representing over 1.2 million architects worldwide. It has just committed to lobbying @ Copenhagen for a treaty based on the principle of contraction and convergence. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Climate Change Resolution for UIA General Assembly, Torino July 2008 Preamble In line with its commitment to sustainable development and responsible architectural practice the UIA believes that co-ordinated international action is urgently required to arrest global warming. Current Climate change is the greatest emergency human civilisation has faced. There is overwhelming scientific consensus that it is caused by human activities and that it threatens a major proportion of life on earth. We believe that to successfully mitigate climate change it is essential to reach an intergovernmental agreement to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions so as to stop the rise of GHG concentration in the atmosphere. As an international body of architects we feel a particular need for such a global agreement for it would create the conditions in which our members can better play their part in advocating local action and finding effective solutions. The international climate change agreement must be science based, equitable, and enforceable. It must lead to a progressive contraction of total emissions and a progressive convergence of per capita emissions worldwide. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, COP1S, to take place in NovemberlDecember 2009, offers an unrepeatable opportunity to finally put in place a more effective treaty to replace the very limited Kyoto Protocol which in any case expires in 2012. The UIA commits itself to campaigning for the most effective outcome possible at COP15 through advocacy of an emission limitation agreement based on the principle of contraction and convergence. Sections are encouraged to work with other professional institutions and NGOs in their countries and regions, to organise events or join with already planned events in pursuit of effective intergovernmental action on climate change." |
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