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UN climate change body to prepare new assessment report
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 04 - 2008


The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed to put out its next major
assessment report by 2014, the body's chairman Rajendra Pachauri said
Thursday, according to dpa.
The IPCC's previous report was largely responsible for last year's
award of the Peace Prize, which the organization shared with former
US vice president Al Gore for increasing public awareness of man-made
climate change.
Pachauri, speaking to journalists during the body's 28th congress
in Budapest, said that the IPCC would attempt to make as big an
impact with the next report as it had with the previous one.
"One thing we have done consciously is make sure what we do is
done on a large scale. That is why there was a major impact worldwide
with the fourth report," he said.
"We would not be meeting expectations if we did not do the same
with the fifth report," he added.
The IPCC's fourth report served as a basis for stormy negotiations
in Bali last December, which brought about a landmark agreement to
set a road map for strengthening international action on climate
change.
Further talks in Bangkok last Friday came up with a work programme
for a long-term international agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen
by the end of 2009.
The ultimate goal is to produce concrete plans to halt increases
in global carbon emissions by 2015 and dramatically cut them by 2050.
The IPCC also used the conference to launch a paper detailing the
effects of climate change on the earth's water supply, which was
compiled from the fourth assessment report.
"We have enough observations, made over decades, from which we can
see...the whole cycle of water is changing as result of climate
change," Pachauri said.
Pachauri warned that there would be an increased risk of extreme
weather events, flooding and drought in many areas across the globe
in the future, with areas such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
particularly vulnerable to drought.
He also warned that changes to the earth's water supply could have
serious consequences for the availability of food in the future.
"This is a serious concern, because globally we have a problem of
food security. We may see decline in agricultural production - this
is a problem as with increasing populations comes a higher demand for
food," he said.
The price of staples such as rice and wheat has already risen due
to an increase in demand and poor harvests. Food riots have broken
out in Egypt, Haiti and several African nations over the rising
prices.
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques
Diouf told a conference in New Delhi Wednesday that high prices and
shortages of rice, wheat and corn could help spread the riots to many
developing countries.
"There is a risk that this unrest will spread in countries where
50 to 60 percent of income goes to food," he said.
The IPCC conference was also being used as a platform to decide
how to use the 5 million Swedish kronor (0.75 million dollars)
awarded as part of the Peace Prize, what direction research will take
in the near future and how the panel will be organized.
The IPCC was also debating whether to issue a separate report on
the relative merits of renewable energy sources.


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