Nurturing the earth for future generations

摘要

LORD STERN (author of the Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change in 2006) had a very direct message for the world's politicians prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December. He said: 'If we continue with business as usual we would be looking at temperature increases of five degrees centigrade by early next century. We have not seen those sort of conditions for 30 million years. These kind of changes will have huge consequences - southern Europe is likely to be a desert, hundreds of millions of people will have to move. There will be severe global conflict.' It is a crisis, he said, that, 'will come to us incredibly fast and the scale of the risk is huge.' He concluded, 'public opinion in this country and around the world has simply failed to grasp the significance of the December meeting.'