By Prensa Latina
New Delhi : Five State and Government Chiefs will join Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to open on Thursday here the summit on Sustainable Development focused on climate change.
Presidents from Iceland and the Falklands Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, are expected to attend the meeting as well as prime ministers from Denmark, Norway and Finland, Andres Fogh Rasmussen, Jens Stontenberg and Matti vanhenen, respectively.
Also to participate are four ex State and Government chiefs, 10 ministers and four former leaders, two Nobel Prize winners and top ranking officials from several agencies and multilateral and bilateral departments as well as business executives.
The event, organized by the Energy and Resources Institute (IER), will be the first and largest international meeting on Climate Change since Bali Summit Indonesia, coordinated by the UN in December.
The IER is led by R. K. Pachari who also presides over Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate change and shared the Nobel peace Prize with US ex Vice President Al Gore.
The participants will debate dangers of pollutant gas emission in agriculture, the increase of damage and frequency caused by drought, floods and storms as well as sea level growth worldwide.