Activists call for worldwide efforts to cut CO2 emissions

They said Thailand should also use this opportunity to reveal GHG emission figures for all sectors.
After observing this month’s “COP 19 UN” climate-change conference in Poland, where they called the recent Haiyan typhoon a result of global warming, the group hosted a press conference on the lessons from the disaster at Bangkok’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
Philippine Movement for Climate Justice coordinator Pudila Commet said the country was hit by more and more devastating storms in the past couple of years, but local governments were unable to tackle such disasters due to lack of preparedness.
People, especially those in risky areas, should be prepared for storm or flood disasters and the typhoon Haiyan case should be used as a lesson for better planning for disaster mitigation, she said. The use of “dirty energy sources” such as coal should also be stopped, she added.
TCJ representative Faikham Hannarong urged all countries to work towards ending global warming, especially by stopping GHG-producing dirty energy sources – and for developed countries to pay for disaster damages.
“However, the atmosphere at COP19 in Poland showed that superpower countries continued to resist the call,” she said.
Activist Pablo Solan said the international conferences on global warming was not a success because leaders and political-sector representatives from member countries were still supported by energy-producing companies.