GENEVA, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) passed an "emergency resolution" on the final day of its assembly on Thursday on climate change.
The resolution said that to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius "requires urgent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society."
IPU President Gabriela Cuevas Barron, a Mexican senator, said at a United Nations (UN) press conference here the resolution came under the assembly's aim to use science, technology and innovation to bridge the widening gap between policy-making and science.
"I believe that more than ever, the international community must center its efforts to attain the urgent transformation our world requires if we are to avert the environmental crisis foreseen by the UN and by the scientific community," she said after the resolution was passed.
The IPU said, "Time is of the essence for this situation; we call on all our parliamentarians to act now to preserve environmental balance."
The 139th IPU Assembly held on Oct. 14 to 18 in Geneva brought together over 1,500 delegates including 56 parliamentary speakers, 52 deputy speakers, and over 750 members of parliament.
