Abstract
ON APRIL 6 , a United Nations panel outlined broad, eventually catastrophic changes in the planet that will occur if emissions of greenhouse gases are not curbed. As global temperatures continue to rise, species extinctions will increase, water shortages will spread, and droughts and floods will become much more widespread, warned the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its report on impacts. The areas of the world most vulnerable to the impacts of a warming planet are the Arctic; sub-Saharan Africa; small island states; and the large, highly populated river deltas of Asia, says the report, which was prepared by IPCC's Working Group II. It is the poorest of the poor people in the world, even the poorest in the most prosperous nations, who are going to be the worst hit and are the most vulnerable, as far as the impacts of climate change are concerned, IPCC Chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri said ...
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