According to a bulleting from the University of Copenhagen "more than 2,000 participants from around 80 countries" answered the call and will take part at the conference. The conference, called Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions, is being hosted by the University of Copenhagen.

 

The conference is being organized under the tutelage of International Alliance of Re-search Universities (IARU) and it’s a joint effort from tens of top universities all over the world. The list of top universities includes names like ETH - Zürich, National University of Singapore, Australian National University, Peking University, University of California - Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo and Yale University.

 

The 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are seriously out of date, most scientists believe, and the goal of the conference held in Copenhagen is to establish a new report of the planet’s situation. The wider goal of the conference is to remove as much maneuver space as possible from political negotiations regarding the new global climate treaty that is scheduled to take place in December. 

 

Due to the fact that the conference has very little to do with the IPCC, it will allow scientists to be more clear about the current state of the global climate. For example, the IPCC report on the sea level forecasted that the level would rise this century with 23in (59cm), but that report did not take into account the accelerated melting of glaciers and ice caps from the Greenland Ice Sheet.

 

The Copenhagen conference will last three days and many experts believe the conclusion of the scientists who take part at it will be that the sea level will rise with as much a meter over the next century. The numerous scientists and researchers that responded to the invitation will present their latest findings regarding the global climate and the changes it is experiencing.  

 

"We need a much stronger sense in our societies of urgency," John Ashton, Britain's top climate negotiator, said. He added that the focus must be on the 'reasonable worst case' that could occur in the lifetime of people alive today.

 

The fact that there will be so many participants from various fields of science and research, will add to the quality and clarity of the final report. It will most likely include the probable social and economic impact the global warming will have.