U.N. panel to lay out steps on warming - AP

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Source: Associated Press

U.N. panel to lay out steps on warming

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer
Mon Apr 23, 9:11 PM ET

BANGKOK, Thailand - After two reports predicting a warmer Earth
where life is fundamentally changed, a U.N.-sponsored scientific
panel next month will issue a third study describing how a united
world can avert the worst, by embracing technologies ranging
from nuclear power to manure controls.

Under a best-case scenario for heading off severe damage, the
global economy might lose as little as 3 percentage points of
growth by 2030 in deploying technologies to reduce greenhouse-
gas emissions, says the panel's draft report, obtained by The
Associated Press.

But it won't be easy.

"Governments, businesses and individuals all need to be pulling
in the same direction," said British researcher Rachel Warren,
one of the report's authors.

For one thing, the governments of such major emitters as the
United States, China and India will have to join the Kyoto
Protocol countries of Europe and Japan in imposing cutbacks in
carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases emitted by
industry, power plants and other sources.

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