GLOBAL WARMING – KYOTO RERUN REPORT UNDERLINES NEED FOR URGENT CHANGE
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE LATEST report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the urgent action still required to reverse global warming trends, saying without action, global greenhouse gas emissions will be 25% to 90% above current levels by 2030, with the highest growth from the transport sector. Although two-thirds of such emissions growth will come from developing countries, it warned. Limiting average global warming to 2°C above the pre-industrial level would require by 2050 a cut in greenhouse gas emissions of more than 50% ...
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