Reducing Risks from Climate Change: No More Time for Delay
posted 3/7/07 on renewableenergyaccess.com
Global climate change, driven largely by the combustion of fossil fuels and by deforestation, is a growing threat to human well-being in developing and industrialized nations alike. Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are a certainty. The challenge now is to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe. There is still a good chance of succeeding in this, and of doing so by means that create economic opportunities that are greater than the costs and that advance rather than impede other societal goals. But seizing this chance requires an immediate and major acceleration of efforts on two fronts: mitigation measures (such as reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases and black soot) to prevent the degree of climate change from becoming unmanageable; and adaptation measures (such as building dikes and adjusting agricultural practices) to reduce the harm from climate change that proves unavoidable.
Final report of the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, just released by The United Nations Foundation and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, "Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable"
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