The current emission targets of industrialised countries will bring the world on a route that leads to at least a doubling of their official climate target, shows the leading UN climate report of 2007.
If however these targets are interpreted using scientific updates since publication of that IPCC report, the present goals may lead to a staggering warming of more than seven degrees, says a newly founded European climate campaign, called 40inCopenhagen.org.
The current goals fit exactly in the IPCC emissions range of zero to 25 percent reduction for the year 2020, with the US (0 percent [compared to 1990 levels - MW]) being the least ambitious and Japan (-25 percent), since election of its new government, the most. The European Union still officially holds on to a 20 percent reduction, though willing to increase that to 30 ‘if others join in’. Canada is [mehr...]
