Failure to curb emissions will lead to severe climatic change

Failure to curb the world’s increasing emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to more severe climatic changes that will affect developing countries the most, according to a new World Bank-International Monetary Fund report. The report, Global Monitoring Report: MDGs and the Environment—Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development, is an assessment of the world’s attempt at meeting Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight globally agreed development goals, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability, with a due date of 2015. It found, among other things, that a third of the developing world’s population – 1.6 billion people – lack access to modern energy, and are forced to rely on carbon-emitting fossil fuels and biomass. “Preventing dangerous changes in climate will necessarily involve mitigation of greenhouse gases. This includes CO2 from fossil fuel use, but also mitigation of CO2 from deforestation and reduction of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture,” the report said. “Poor countries will suffer the most from, and are able to adapt the least to, the effects of

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