16/2/2007
TV Weather Presenters Invited to Raise Awareness of Climate Change

As part of the European Commission's "You control climate change" awareness-raising campaign, more than 45 meteorologists and television weather presenters from across the European Union will meet on 16 February at the Commission's Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels.

 The meeting coincides with the second anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol's entry into force. As both climate experts and media personalities in their home countries, weather presenters are well placed to help the campaign's aims of raising public awareness about climate change and what individuals can do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are being invited to form a network to support these goals.

      The meeting will be opened by the Commission's Director-General for Environment, Mogens Peter Carl. Other speakers include Mr Jerry Lengoasa, Assistant Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, and two lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report, Prof Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) and Professor Pavel Kabat of Wageningen University and Research Centre (the Netherlands).