Bono and Gore campaign together

Updated 13.13 Thu Jan 24 2008

Keywords: davos, poverty, environment, climate change, bono, al gore, world economic forum, world

Bono has joined forces with former US vice president Al Gore to urge world leaders to tackle climate change and global poverty together.

The pair shared the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said the environment and poverty should be seen as linked because the effect of climate change will have the most-dramatic effect in the developing world.

"If we get distracted by the aberrations that you see in the financial market right now it would clearly be very unfortunate" - Rajendra Pachauri

Mr Gore said: "In addition to changing the light bulbs, it is far more important to change the laws and to change the treaty obligations that nations have.

"One simple thing that will solve the climate crisis is to put a price on carbon. It needs to be effective globally."

Economic fears have overshadowed climate discussions in Davos this year's forum has staged a record number of sessions and workshops about global warming

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel, said: "If we get distracted by the aberrations that you see in the financial market right now it would clearly be very unfortunate."