Greenpeace: Reduce carbon emissions to prevent temperature rising

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Source: CCTV.com | 01-31-2007 09:28

Greenpeace is calling for a reduction in carbon emissions to prevent temperatures from rising. As Pei Jian tells us, activists are planning a very unique way to get the public's attention.

Scientists from around the world have gathered in Paris to finalize a report on climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created by the United Nations in 1988. It is scheduled to release on Friday the first phase of its latest assessment of the environmental threat posed by global warming.

Meanwhile, environmental activists are doing their part to pave the way for the release of the long-awaited report about global warming.

At their urging, the Eiffel Tower will switch off its 20,000 flashing light bulbs for five-minutes on Thursday night. This, to draw attention to the climate change report, and the findings of the environmental scientists from around the world.

Greenpeace warns that a 2 degree rise in world temperatures could bring environmental disaster.

Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace climate and energy policy advisor, said, "My country where I live in, Holland, will effectively disappear, the World Trade Center memorial will be under water and the coast lines of the continents as we know them will have completely changed beyond all recognition and we'll be looking at hundreds of hundreds of millions of people with no place to live."

Friday's report draws on research by 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries and has taken six years to compile.

It will urge governments and consumers to rely more on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. This, instead of greenhouse gas-emitting ones, such as coal and oil.

Editor:Du Xiaodan