Vulnerable countries speak out on climate change
Representatives from over 30 countries joined experts to discuss the impact of climate change on countries that are particularly vulnerable because of geography or economic circumstances.
Guest speakers from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Institute of Development Studies and Department for International Development joined the Foreign Office Climate Envoy, ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives from a wide variety of countries such as Ethiopia, Guyana, Bangladesh and Costa Rica.
The ambassadors spoke passionately about the threat of climate change to their countries and the need for an effective international agreement at Copenhagen in December which will massively cut emissions of the gases that cause climate change and prevent average global temperatures from rising beyond two degrees centigrade.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said 'some of the countries that have been the most responsible for the rise in emissions and the dangers of climate change are least vulnerable to the effects of climate change and some of those countries who have contributed least to change in climate nonetheless stand to suffer the most.'
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Embassies/High Commissions represented on the day
Argentina, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Maldives, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, St Lucia, Sudan, Sweden, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Venezuela.
Speakers at the Foreign office in London