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FACE UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE!
"Climate change is already happening"
said Klaus Töpfer, Head of the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), reacting to weather disasters of 1999. In fact climate change
is the most serious environmental threat the world faces. Recent
extreme weather events, like Hurricane Mitch, the Mozambique floods
or storm Lothar in France and Germany, are a taste of the destruction
that is to come. Yet world governments have failed to take serious
action to reduce emissions from fossil fuels -- the only way to
save the global climate.
DON'T LET GOVERNMENTS WRECK THE TREATY!
At the climate negotiations in The Hague this November, countries
like the US,
Canada and Australia will try to water down the Kyoto Protocol,
a vital treaty which obliges industrialised countries to cut emissions
of greenhouse gases by an average 5.2% by 2012 compared to their
1990 emissions. Politicians will try to avoid real action for the
reduction of CO2 emissions in their own countries by agreeing on
so called 'flexible mechanisms' which contain so many loopholes
that real CO2 reduction can be avoided (‘dodgy
activities’). As a result, industrialised countries might be
able to increase their emissions from fossil fuels rather than reduce
them.
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