The third United Nations report on climate change

Warn about the risk of global warming, UN-sponsored scientists will present a new study next week, describing how to avoid the worst, that is: everyone must grasp technology, from nuclear energy to fertilizer management.

The draft report is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be released in Bangkok (Thailand) on May 4, indicating: emissions can be reduced below. current levels if the world converts high carbon fuels such as coal, captures energy efficiency and significantly reduces deforestation.

The two previous IPCC reports this year drew a picture of the catastrophic future, in which unreliable greenhouse gas emissions could push global temperatures to 6 degrees Celsius by 2100.

(Photo: dailycamera) Even raising just 2 degrees Celsius can cause 2 billion people to be dehydrated by 2050 and threaten extinction for 20 to 30% of the world's species.

The 3rd IPCC report emphasized that the world must quickly embrace technical choices, both available and developing, to keep the global temperature up to only 2 degrees Celsius.

The report makes it clear that governments can reduce economic costs if low-carbon technology is promoted through European tax or trade exchange systems, in which the industry is distributed. emissions quota. These quotas can then be exchanged between more productive companies and less productive companies.

President Bush's government rejected the emission reduction requirements of the Kyoto Protocol -1997, arguing that they would harm the growth of the US economy.

China and other developing countries have been allowed by Kyoto Protocol -1997 to exempt emission reductions, but the reality shows that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is almost coming from the developing world.

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