State of the World event to be held
The climate change conference will take place in November
A major three-day conference which will see a range of experts discuss the issue of climate change and its potential impact is to be held later this year.
The 2009 State of the World Forum is set to bring together activists and thought leaders from across the globe in Washington from November 12th.
It is hoped the event, which is being held a month before world leaders meet at the United Nations' climate change conference in Copenhagen, will see the launch of a major ten-year initiative to improve the environmental credentials of economies across the globe.
The forum will also consider what areas, other than government action and business transformation, need to be addressed to ensure that people across the world choose to become greener.
A particular area of focus is expected to be the importance of encouraging the public to make changes to their personal lifestyles and accept climate change as a "planet-wide problem".
Speakers already confirmed to attend the event include Lester Brown, the founder of the Earth Policy Institute, and Esperide Ananas, international co-ordinator of the Italian sustainable society Damanhur.
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It's too late - people should have stopped reproducing at a tearaway rate several hunderd years ago - then there would not have been a climate disaster.
Governments are now paying lip-service to the cause to gain votes and to spend more of our money in green taxes that go nowhere. If only someone would bite the bullet and introduce a statutory regulation for people to produce a maximum of two children per family. And to stop wasting funds and resources on IVF treatment. We've got far too many humans already and many of those await adoption.