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UN talks agree report on battling climate change
Climate experts agreed on a UN report on Friday that said fighting global warming is affordable and the technology available to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate chaos, a senior delegate said.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 May 4, 2007
Bangkok: Climate experts agreed on a UN report on Friday that said fighting global warming is affordable and the technology available to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate chaos, a senior delegate said.
"It's done," he told reporters after five days of intense wrangling about how much the battle against climate change would cost and how to go about it.
The talks in Bangkok ran into the early hours as scientists and government officials from more than 100 countries tried to resolve complex issues in the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report deals with ways to curb rapid growth in greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and forests, that scientists say are causing global warming.
It also says current policies are inadequate.
"With current climate-change-mitigation policies and related sustainable-development practices, global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to grow over the next few decades," a revised draft of the report says.
The formal report, yet to be published, does not set out policies. It reviews the latest science on the costs and ways to curb emissions growth and is designed to be a blueprint for governments.
But it says there is a wide variety of technology already available to fight climate change at costs bearable by much of the developing world responsible for a lot of the current growth.
The third part of this year's assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks at ways to curb emissions and economic factors.
The report is due to be released in the Thai capital on Friday.
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