"UN Issued With Roadmap on How To Avoid Climate Catastrophe"

"Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C"

"The United Nations was presented with a roadmap to avoid a climate catastrophe on Tuesday, prescribing specific actions for the world’s biggest economies to keep warming below 2C.

In a report prepared for the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, experts from 30 international institutions set out a range of strategies for the economies responsible for more than two-thirds of global emissions.

The initiative is the first of its kind to try to make concrete plans around the various targets that have been discussed at the UN climate change negotiations over the last two decades, said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and a leader of the Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation Project."

Suzanne Goldenberg reports for the Guardian July 8, 2014.

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