ANSA.it - News in English - Italy hosts climate change [fraud?] centre

(ANSA) - Venice, July 13 - Venice is to host a major new research centre on climate change staffed by experts from around the world, Italian Environment Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo announced on Monday.

Addressing a climate conference in the Lagoon City, the minister said the complex would be located on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Over 100 scientists from around the planet will work at the centre, which will be the largest climate change research laboratory in the world, she said.

The announcement came on the first day of a summit tasked with laying the foundations for the Fifth Assessment Report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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The summit, which runs until Friday, is being attended by 200 scientists and sector experts who will try to agree on an outline for the report, the final version of which is not due until 2013. ''These preparatory sessions are perhaps even more important than the report itself because in the years before it is finalized, governments and the United Nations will have urgent need of its scientific suggestions and updated assessments,'' said Prestigiacomo. She said the next five days were particularly crucial in view of a UN summit in Copenhagen this December, which is tasked with agreeing on a successor to the Kyoto protocol when it expires in 2012. IPCC Chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri, who spoke at the conference inauguration, said he was ''optimistic'' about the summit in Copenhagen. He said his own country, India, was ''taking the question of climate change very seriously''. However, he added: ''India produces a ton of carbon dioxide emissions per person each year compared to 20 tons in the US. Our concern is that if reduction policies are implemented equally everywhere, people in India will struggle to escape poverty''

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