Fighting Warming Key to Anti-Poverty Goals

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Gee, now who woulda thunk that doing the right thing has benefits above and beyond simply doing the right thing? what a fekking concept, eh? maybe shrubco oughta try it on for size sometime...

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***ENVIRONMENT:
Fighting Warming Key to Anti-Poverty Goals
Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (IPS) - Driven by increased concerns and mounting evidence of the threats posed by global warming, some of the world's most eminent scientists are telling policymakers to get their act together before it is too late to avoid a doomsday scenario.

Releasing a new study entitled "Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable," researchers said here Tuesday that world leaders should take immediate steps to start reversing the upward trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, otherwise the current path would lead to "serious" climate change impacts.

Prepared in response to a request by the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) two years ago, the 144-page study outlines a roadmap for measures to reduce dangerous emissions, alleviate poverty, and spur sustainable development.
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