Al Gore called for more concerted action to save the planet yesterday as he addressed the audience at the University of Poznan, after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University during a side event to the 14th climate change conference taking place in the Polish city.

This week Al Gore met with the US president-elect Barak Obama to discuss climate change. Obama declared after the discussion that: “the time for denial is over. We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now, this is a matter of urgency and national security, and it has to be dealt with in a serious way. That is what I intent my administration to do”.
Gore thanked the university, the city authorities, and his friend Dr Jan Kulczyk, chairman of Green Cross International, for this honor and for the invitation to Poznan.
In the meantime at the Poznan conference, little progress has been achieved. Despite the desperate calls for action of pacific island states and many LDCs, negotiations are stalling due to the self-interests of a few nations. A few hours before the closing of the conference, EU president Sarkozy called for an urgent EU agreement in Brussels on CC in a last-minute attempt to achieve progress in Poznan and provide a positive closing to the French presidency of the EU.