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Climate experts paint alarming picture for planet and people
BRUSSELS (AFP) 06/04/2007 14:14
Rajendra Pachauri at the opening session of the IPCC in Brussels on April 2, 2007
© AFP Gérard Cerles
Climate change experts on Friday made an alarming observation of the already visible and attested impacts of global warming in a text haggled to the last word, intended for the leaders of the planet.
In its summary for policymakers, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) insists on two major messages: no one will escape the warming already underway, which will primarily affect the poorest; beyond 2 to 3 degrees of increase compared to 1990, it will have "negative impacts on all regions" of the world, in particular an irreversible extinction of 20 to 30% of plant and animal species.
It is the populations of the Arctic, sub-Saharan, Asian mega-deltas and coastal regions that are most at risk. "The small islands are all alone", recalled the co-chair of the IPCC working group, Martin Parry.
For African countries, adapting to rising sea levels could represent 5 to 10% of GDP, an insurmountable cost for the poorest.
By continent, by sector of activity, the IPCC thus draws to leaders a world with frightening prospects, attested by the breadth of studies and data.
"We used 29.000 different data sets," insists one of the leading authors on Europe, Joseph Alcamo from the University of Kassel in Germany. This expert resented the attempts of certain countries - China, the United States - to water down the scientific message.
"Some objections were not scientifically justified," says Prof. Alcamo. "Some countries seek to minimize the risks."
At the request of the United States, almost all the quantitative data was removed from the summary, the most visible part of the experts' work, since the report itself totals 1.400 pages.
The threshold beyond which the impacts worsen significantly has been raised from 2 degrees initially planned in the first versions of the summary to a range of "+2 to + 3 ° C".
The summaries of the IPCC are approved by consensus, which sometimes means tarnishing the lowest common denominator, recognizes a Western delegate.
"The European Union wanted a strong signal, America nitpicked," summed up a delegate, who does not belong to either one. "But make no mistake, all the data is still in the full report and is a strong message."
This desire for obstruction does not bode well for the next major international meetings, such as the G8 of industrialized countries in June which will be partly devoted to the climate.
"Warming is inevitable because of past emissions, but mitigation efforts will take decades to act," warned Martin Parry.
European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the report "argues in favor of the EU's target" of limiting global warming to 2 ° C above the era's temperature. pre-industrial. In the scientific section of the report in February, the IPCC estimated the probable increase in global temperatures of 1,8 to 4 ° C in 2100 compared to 1990, without excluding an increase of up to 6,4 ° C.
The second section on impacts "sets out very clearly the serious consequences that climate change will have on all of us," added Mr Dimas. For NGOs - Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF - "the urgency" of the report calls for a similar response from governments.
IPCC President Rajendra Pachauri hoped it will attract "the attention of the whole world", while "many heads of state read the January scientific summary for the first time," according to Hans Verolme, director of the climate program at WWF.
