The warnings come as nations meet in Doha, Qatar from November 26 for
the next major round of international climate change negotiations.
It is the first time a Gulf state has hosted global climate negotiations |
“A 4°C world is likely to be one in which communities, cities and
countries would experience severe disruptions, damage, and dislocation,”
the bank report said. “There is no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C
world is possible.”
In what World Bank President Jim Yong Kim acknowledged was a “doomsday scenario,” a new bank study cited the 4 degree increase as a threshold that would likely trigger widespread crop failures and malnutrition and dislocate large numbers of people from land inundated by rising seas.
"A 4 degree warmer world can, and must be, avoided -- we need to hold warming below 2 degrees," World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim said. |
The report says the 4°C scenarios are potentially devastating: the
inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production
potentially leading to higher under and malnutrition rates; many dry
regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter; unprecedented heat waves in
many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water
scarcity in many regions; increased intensity of tropical cyclones; and
irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.
It
said extreme heat waves, that without global warming would be expected
to occur once in several hundred years, will be experienced during
almost all summer months in many regions.
The effects would not be evenly distributed.
From the Bonn Climate
Change Talks, which were held June 2nd-13th 2008,
According to a new report from
the Institute of Policy
Studies in Washington DC, the Bank’s role in
carbon markets is "dangerously
counterproductive." The World Bank is "playing
both sides of the climate crisis," concludes
Janet
Redman, main author of the report. "It is making
money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning
around and claiming to solve it," she says. Instead
of encouraging clean energy investors, the Bank is
lending much of its financial support to the fossil fuel
industry.
"We’re not at the moment seeing the
leadership from industrialized countries which I think is
essential," warned de Boer, midway through the Bonn
meeting. As the talks ended, he described the task of
reaching agreement by the end of 2009 as
"daunting." "It could well be said that we
have been beating around the bush," said
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, India’s representative.
The United States, Canada and Australia, in particular,
were accused by environmentalists of limiting
progress.
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