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Academics urge G-8 to cooperate in tackling climate change, health
Tokyo, June 11 Kyodo - Academics from 13 countries on Tuesday urged the Group of Eight industrialized nations to cooperate with each other as well as with other countries of the world in tackling the climate change and global health issues.
Ichiro Kanazawa, president of the Science Council of Japan, presented to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda two joint statements adopted by academies from G-8 countries plus five developing nations -- Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- on the two topics.
Fukuda is set to host the G-8 summit bringing together leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States in Hokkaido on July 7-9. The five developing countries are also scheduled to take part in outreach sessions at the summit.
The science academies' joint statement on climate change urges governments to ''prepare for the challenges and risks posed by climate change by improving predictive and adaptive capacities at global, national and local level.''
It also urges them to assist developing nations to conduct vulnerability analyses and cooperate with such countries such as by transferring technologies necessary in the transition to a low-carbon society.
The statement points out that even though the science academies of the G-8 plus five countries have been calling on world leaders to limit the threat of climate change since 2005, ''progress in reducing global greenhouse gas emission has been slow.''
On global health, the academies urge governments to increase international collaboration and technology transfer to developing countries as well as promote coordination with international organizations to tackle health challenges such as infectious diseases and lifestyle-linked diseases.
The G-8 academies' meeting was first held in 2005, when Britain hosted the G-8 summit, and has been held annually since to offer policy recommendations to governments of the grouping prior to the summit talks.
This year, the academies met March 17-18 in Tokyo under the organization of the Science Council of Japan and drafted the two statements, which have been fine-tuned before being finalized for presentation to Fukuda and other G-8 leaders in their respective countries.==Kyodo
Ichiro Kanazawa, president of the Science Council of Japan, presented to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda two joint statements adopted by academies from G-8 countries plus five developing nations -- Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- on the two topics.
Fukuda is set to host the G-8 summit bringing together leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States in Hokkaido on July 7-9. The five developing countries are also scheduled to take part in outreach sessions at the summit.
The science academies' joint statement on climate change urges governments to ''prepare for the challenges and risks posed by climate change by improving predictive and adaptive capacities at global, national and local level.''
It also urges them to assist developing nations to conduct vulnerability analyses and cooperate with such countries such as by transferring technologies necessary in the transition to a low-carbon society.
The statement points out that even though the science academies of the G-8 plus five countries have been calling on world leaders to limit the threat of climate change since 2005, ''progress in reducing global greenhouse gas emission has been slow.''
On global health, the academies urge governments to increase international collaboration and technology transfer to developing countries as well as promote coordination with international organizations to tackle health challenges such as infectious diseases and lifestyle-linked diseases.
The G-8 academies' meeting was first held in 2005, when Britain hosted the G-8 summit, and has been held annually since to offer policy recommendations to governments of the grouping prior to the summit talks.
This year, the academies met March 17-18 in Tokyo under the organization of the Science Council of Japan and drafted the two statements, which have been fine-tuned before being finalized for presentation to Fukuda and other G-8 leaders in their respective countries.==Kyodo
