'Concrete steps needed from dev nations on emissions'

Times of India , Sunday, July 05, 2009
Correspondent : PTI
LINDAU (Germany): Industrialized nations should take "concrete steps" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent global warming, the brunt of which developing countries are bearing in the form of crop failures and food shortages, Nobel Laureate Rajendra Pachauri has said.

Chairman of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Pachauri said climate change is not a scientists' "fantasy" and warned against making 'uncertainty' over its consequences a pretext against taking far-reaching measures.

He said urgent actions are needed now, at least to stabilise the situation "before it becomes too late".

"If we take immediate actions now, it will take years to reach where we should have been... Global climate change is not a fantasy of scientists and we already find ourselves in that," Pachauri told a panel at the 59th annual Meetings of Nobel Laureates, while advocating a change in lifestyles.

The discussions were held yesterday on the island of Mainau and were followed by the opening of a two-month long exhibition called "Discoveries" on sustainable use of water resources, in which India is also participating.

Pachauri said developing nations have been bearing the brunt of the consequences of climate change in the form of crop failures, food shortages, outbreak of diseases such as Malaria and extreme weather conditions.

Rich nations, meanwhile, have benefited most from industrialization which contributed to unbridled emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

 
SOURCE : Sunday, July 05, 2009
 


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