Climate change survey ready for your participation; World Bank, World Conservation Union seek respondents for post-Bali opinion

January 22, 2008

An online survey on climate change supported by the World Bank, the World Conservation Union, the International Development Research Centre, and GlobeScan is available, and seeking response from climate change professionals.

The survey is the second in a pre-Bali / post-Bali survey of professional opinion. The pre-Bali survey rated biofuels produced from food crops like corn as having the least potential of 18 technologies for reducing carbon emissions over the next 25 years without unacceptable side effects, trailing coal as a force for climate change mitigation. Survey results will be distributed to decision makers around the globe, and respondents will have immediate access to interim findings presented in Bali as well as a summary report in two months. The survey is available in the six official UN languages here.

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Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Research