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When the countries meet in Geneva in July for the second conference on the Climate Convention (COP2), they will discuss new scientific evidence on man-made climate change. The UN Scientific Panel on climate change (IPCC) foresees in their second report that: - without mitigation of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by sometime between 2030 and 2050 will be double the pre-industrial level, and the Earth's mean temperature is projected to increase by between 0.8 and 3.5 degrees C by 2100, a rate faster than any observed during the last 10,000 years. - sea level is projected to rise by between 15 and 95 cm by 2100. - climate change is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse effects on human health, with significant loss of life. At the conference, the countries will make a declaration and discuss set targets for the protocol to which they agreed at the first climate convention conference in Berlin in March, 1995, and that will be finished at the third conference in Japan in 1997. A large number of NGOs, cooperating in the Climate Action Network, hope that the countries will decide not to allow a doubling of the greenhouse gases from pre-industrial levels (keep the atmospheric concentrations below the levels, which would give a combined effect equivalent to a doubling of pre-industrial level of CO2 concentrations). Further, they ask the countries to back this up with a strong protocol in 1997 to reduce the CO2 emissions of the industrialized nations after the year 2000. If the countries decide to stabilize the greenhouse gas concentration at the equivalent of a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere, the average global temperature will increase to 1.1 - 3.3 C above pre-industrial level. Even this increase can have quite harmful effects to some natural ecosystems. More info: Climate Network Europe, rue de Taciturne 42, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. Ph/fax:+32-2-2310180/-2305713, email: canron@gn.apc.org. |
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