A leaked 29-page draft by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the mounting threat posed by global warming to health. It added that global warming also threatens economic growth, crops and water supplies.
Scheduled for release next year, the draft draws attention to the risks of a changing climate. It mentions "risk" 139 times against just 41 in its last assessment in 2007.
"The IPCC has transitioned to what I consider to be a full and rich
recognition that the climate change problem is about managing risk,"
Christopher Field, co-chair of the IPCC group preparing the report, told
Reuters.
The increased stress on risk may make the case for cutting greenhouse
gas emissions clearer both to policymakers and the public by making it
sound like an insurance policy for the planet, analysts say.
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