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caused by the atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases. Concerted efforts should be mounted for Notes
improving energy efficiency and reducing the carbon intensity of the world economy.

European Academy of Sciences and Arts
In 2007, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts issued a formal declaration on climate change
titled Let’s Be Honest:
Human activity is most likely responsible for climate warming. Most of the climatic warming over
the last 50 years is likely to have been caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere. Documented long-term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures
and ice, widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme
weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones.
The above development potentially has dramatic consequences for mankind’s future.

International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences

In 2007, the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS)
issued a Statement on Environment and Sustainable Growth:
As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most of the observed global
warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to human-produced emission of greenhouse
gases and this warming will continue unabated if present anthropogenic emissions continue or,
worse, expand without control.
CAETS, therefore, endorses the many recent calls to decrease and control greenhouse gas emissions
to an acceptable level as quickly as possible.

Network of African Science Academies

In 2007, the Network of African Science Academies submitted a joint “statement on sustainability,
energy efficiency, and climate change” to the leaders meeting at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm,
Germany:
A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that
human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely
responsible for driving this change.
The IPCC should be congratulated for the contribution it has made to public understanding of the
nexus that exists between energy, climate and sustainability.

The thirteen signatories were the science academies of Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya,
Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, as well as the African Academy of Sciences.

Royal Society of New Zealand

Having signed onto the first joint science academies’ statement in 2001, the Royal Society of New
Zealand released a separate statement in 2008 in order to clear up “the controversy over climate
change and its causes, and possible confusion among the public”:
The globe is warming because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Measurements show that
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are well above levels seen for many thousands of
years. Further global climate changes are predicted, with impacts expected to become more costly
as time progresses. Reducing future impacts of climate change will require substantial reductions
of greenhouse gas emissions.

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