Gore and Bono: Climate crisis is worsening
Former US Vice President Al Gore and U2 frontman Bono offered measured praise today for efforts in tackling climate change and global poverty, but warned that conditions were not improving as much as they could.
At an early-morning session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gore warned that the climate crisis was worsening.
“We could take the whole session talking just about the new scientific evidence of the last few weeks and months,” said Gore, who shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to fight climate change.
He added that the “climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly”.
Bono, a vocal and high-profile advocate of reducing global poverty by providing debt relief to African nations and boosting efforts to treat and prevent AIDS, had similar comments to make on those issues.
“There are now two million Africans on retroviral drugs and that is pretty astonishing,” Bono said, wearing his trademark orange sunglasses.
But he said efforts by the Group of Eight rich nations to pledge 50 billion dollars annually to eliminate poverty had not been met.
“Well, that’s not so good and it’s strange because the good news makes the bad news even worse,” he said.
“The G-8 are not making good on their commitments.”
