Nations agree landmark UN climate report
Negotiators from 195 countries yesterday finalised the most comprehensive scientific assessment yet of how the land we live off affects climate change, after marathon talks in Geneva, sources told AFP. The land use report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), running over 1,000 pages compiled by 108 scientists drawing from thousands of data points, is expected to spell out the stark choices facing a warming planet with a growing, hungry population. Experts from around the world have spent the last few days poring over the report’s summary for policymakers -- a concise run-down of the science containing a range of possible solutions and trade-offs. A key sticking point during negotiations was the role of bioenergy -- power derived from burning plant matter -- and to what extent such schemes should be rolled out to combat climate change.
SOURCE: AFP,
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