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Climate specialists urge aid for India & China
27 Jan '07
3 min read
Aigrain stressed that it is essential to transfer clean-energy solutions to both India and China. They need to use coal, so they need access to clean coal-based energy technologies. Market solutions will prevail, Aigrain said, and he encouraged politicians not to hide behind global agreements.
“Global agreements are the best way to get nowhere,” he said. “It's true in business and even more true in international politics. Let's take concrete steps, like the ones in California.”
California has voted to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, representing roughly 174 million tonnes of carbon reduction, reported Fabian Núñez, Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, reported that the snow pack in California's Sierra mountains has decreased 30% to 90%. “That is our water supply,” Chu pointed out. ”Even a decrease of 20% leads to severe water shortages in California. A decrease of 50% means that our agriculture will be gone, and beyond that we cut into our drinking water.”
Chu added that rising sea levels are now at the upper range of what was predicted five or ten years ago. Science has to come forward with new solutions to climate change, ranging from renewable fuels to carbon sequestration, he declared.
“Global agreements are the best way to get nowhere,” he said. “It's true in business and even more true in international politics. Let's take concrete steps, like the ones in California.”
California has voted to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, representing roughly 174 million tonnes of carbon reduction, reported Fabian Núñez, Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, reported that the snow pack in California's Sierra mountains has decreased 30% to 90%. “That is our water supply,” Chu pointed out. ”Even a decrease of 20% leads to severe water shortages in California. A decrease of 50% means that our agriculture will be gone, and beyond that we cut into our drinking water.”
Chu added that rising sea levels are now at the upper range of what was predicted five or ten years ago. Science has to come forward with new solutions to climate change, ranging from renewable fuels to carbon sequestration, he declared.
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