Time running out to meet global warming target - U.N. report
OSLO (Reuters) - World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows.
Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review the 29-page draft that also estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies would cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050.
It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.
Temperatures have already risen by about 0.8 C (1.4F) since 1900 and are set to breach the 2 C ceiling on current trends in coming decades, U.N. reports show.
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBREA3506A20140406
This post and others should have there own group heading of Climate Change and sub headings of Renewable Energy ...
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deteriorating ... I have seen misspelling on national news and in our newspapers ... it is appalling
and thanks for the correction ...