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Climate protection 'to cost more'

Protecting societies against the impacts of climate change will be much more expensive than previously believed, according to a new analysis. In 2007, the UN climate convention came up with a sum of $49-171bn per year. The new report says the UN sums omitted important factors and the true cost will be two to three times higher. Developing nations want rich countries to provide major sums for adaptation as part of the new UN climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December. "The amount of money on the table at Copenhagen is one of the key factors that will determine whether we achieve a climate change agreement," said lead author Martin Parry, a visiting research fellow with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. "But previous estimates of adaptation costs have substantially misjudged the scale of funds needed." Professor Parry co-chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group on climate impacts for its 2007 assessment. The new report - issued under the aegis of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Grantham Institute - says that some aspects of the UN estimates were wrong by a factor of more than 100. Call to caution The UN climate convention (UNFCCC) made its assessment in 2007 after the IPCC concluded the task was too difficult; and Professor Parry suggested it had been done in a hurry, with some vital caveats ignored in subsequent deliberations. A spokesman for the UNFCCC defended the process but said the organisation had a responsibility to be conservative. "Looking at what was out there in 2007, these were best estimates, which we simply collected; and we had to err on the side of caution," he said. Recently the UNFCCC's executive secretary Yvo de Boer has tended to use the figure of $100bn (£60bn) per year. Professor Parry told BBC News that a key point of the new report, Assessing the Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change, was that it included "bottom-up" as well as "top-down" analyses. "One study shows the cost of adapting a single watershed in China - that's one of the few case studies that's been done - comes in at a billion dollars a year," he said. "So when you start adding up the various figures you soon start to exceed the global number (in the UN's analysis)." He said UNFCCC calculations had taken into account only half of the extra disease burden due to emerge from climate change, assumed low levels of future development in Africa (so giving less infrastructure to protect), used low estimates for sea level rise and had not included the economic costs of nature loss. Mr de Boer told BBC News he was happy that thinking and understanding on the issue was evolving. "For me, the priority is not to try and determine with scientific precision exactly how much is going to be needed to cover the cost of adaptation in 2030," he said. "The point is to put in place a robust architecture for raising adaptation funds and allocating them over time." Financial key Securing funds for climate protection, or adaptation, is a key priority for developing countries in the run-up to the Copenhagen conference, which is supposed to secure a new global agreement supplanting the Kyoto Protocol. Earlier this week the African Union suggested it would be asking for $67bn (£40bn) per year for Africa alone. "Finance is the key that will unlock the negotiations in Copenhagen," said IIED director Camilla Toulmin. "But if governments are working with the wrong numbers, we could end up with a false deal that fails to cover the costs of adaptation to climate change." Most is expected to be raised through levies on carbon trading, but Mr de Boer believes developed countries will need to pledge an up-front sums in the region of $10bn to enable poorer nations to begin assessing their needs and priorities. Further analyses from the World Bank and management consultants McKinsey and Company are due out before the Copenhagen talks. """"""""SEE FUCKING MONEY AGAIN.....ALL IT TAKES IS A BRAIN""""""""

LOL-Dumb Fuckers

People class Intelligence as a gift..and a gift it IS but studying for A-Levels ect....does not class you as intelligent,all studying does is separates you from reality,reality being caring for this planet,not being greedy or snobbish,being able to care for what REALLY matters!to you studying means being able to get a highly payable,highly BORING job ie:A banker......a banker that TAKES money from people and LOSING IT ie-the government steals it and uses it to their agenda,or kicking someone out of their house if the fall behind a little on their repayments/rent ect,or either working in a science lab harming(killing) animals for your own gain...there's no need for that even,even the PM/MP's/Presidnt's/Queens,ect.....they are all UNEDUCATED MORONS,pathetic low life losers who steal and scrounge off us to live the high life while the SHIT on all of us......and THEY and you A-Level,ect STUDENTS call all this INTELLIGENCE-YOU PATHETIC FUCKERS plus ALL the studying you have done,your now in dept....BUT why did you study?.......companies ARE failing all over the place,people losing their jobs,being sacked ect..lol YOUR ALL FUCKED,you can't get the jobs you want,the economy is shit ,and now your all is dept NOW lol,you thought all the studying would make a differance to you,STUDYING DOES NOT MAKE YOU who YOU ARE,IT JUST TURNS YOU into a uneducated idiot!so with saying that:GONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE NOW A MORON!

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I AM HOPE,BUT SILENCED AND SURPRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT,EVERYTHING,AND I MEAN EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN BE FREE IF I WAS IN POWER(PROFIT FREE GOV-NO MONEY WHAT SO EVER)but all the government sees and cares about is MONEY...you think they care for the public.....fuck no!all they want is YOU'RE MONEY