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Article: How can we adapt to climate change?
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- November 9, 2006
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If there was any remaining doubt about the urgent need to combat
climate change, two reports issued last week should make the world
sit up and take notice. First, according to the latest data submitted
to the United Nations, the greenhouse-gas emissions of the major
industrialized countries continue to increase. Second, a study by the
former chief economist of the World Bank, Sir Nicholas Stern of the
United Kingdom, called climate change "the greatest and widest-
ranging market failure ever seen," with the potential to shrink the
global economy by 20 per cent and to cause economic and social
disruption on a par with the two world wars and Great Depression.
The scientific consensus, already ...