sectoral economic costs and benefits of ghg mitigation - IPCC

Ogunlade Davidson
I therefore urge you, participants of this expert meeting as you go through your long programme
within the next two days to contribute to better understanding of this important subject. I noticed
from the programme that the topics that is expected to cover are a wide range of difficult areas
such as impacts on fossil fuels, renewable energy, the transport sector, and energy intensive
industries. This range provides us with the opportunity to develop sectoral solutions which could
be useful in developing local, national, regional and global solutions. We should be prepared to
think differently and come up with new paradigms that address the sectoral impacts of climate
change.
I sincerely hope that this meeting will lead to very useful conclusions which will assist greatly in
the development of the TAR so that the IPCC can effectively contribute towards achieving the
goals of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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