Climate change to hit food prduction seriously
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
BALI, Dec 4 (Agencies): A 190-nation climate meeting in Bali began a hunt for a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 Tuesday with skirmishing about how far China and India should curb surging greenhouse gas emissions.
"The conference got off to a very encouraging start," said Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat of the Dec. 3-14 meeting of 10,000 participants that will try to launch talks on a climate pact to succeed the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
After an opening day dominated by ceremony, governments set up a "special group" to look at options for launching two years of talks meant to bind the United States and developing nations led by China and India more firmly into fighting climate change.
Meanwhile another report adds, agriculture production across the world which already been predicted to be seriously affected by climate change in coming decades, might decline unbelievably in some regions due to lack of attention of scientists to the problem.
A new research report, which was available at Bali Tuesday, said progressive climate changes predicted to rise in temperature from 1 to 5 degree Celsius in coming decades and may put severe blow on food supply.
But scientist so far failed to account the causes of extreme seasonal rise of temperature, heat, drought or rain and multiple effects of diseases and other ecological upsets and all are believed to be happened in more intensely in future.
The research report ruled out the assumption of a well-of section that they we will never be in a problem with food production on global scale and said 'but there is a strong potential for negative surprises'.
Three researchers from Europe, North America and Australia including Francesco Tubiello, a physicist and agricultural expert at the NASA/Goddard Institute of Space Studies, prepared the report for this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
In order to keep pace with population growth, current production of grain, from which humans get two-thirds of their protein, is likely to be doubled and reach to 4 billion tons a years before 2100.
"The conference got off to a very encouraging start," said Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat of the Dec. 3-14 meeting of 10,000 participants that will try to launch talks on a climate pact to succeed the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
After an opening day dominated by ceremony, governments set up a "special group" to look at options for launching two years of talks meant to bind the United States and developing nations led by China and India more firmly into fighting climate change.
Meanwhile another report adds, agriculture production across the world which already been predicted to be seriously affected by climate change in coming decades, might decline unbelievably in some regions due to lack of attention of scientists to the problem.
A new research report, which was available at Bali Tuesday, said progressive climate changes predicted to rise in temperature from 1 to 5 degree Celsius in coming decades and may put severe blow on food supply.
But scientist so far failed to account the causes of extreme seasonal rise of temperature, heat, drought or rain and multiple effects of diseases and other ecological upsets and all are believed to be happened in more intensely in future.
The research report ruled out the assumption of a well-of section that they we will never be in a problem with food production on global scale and said 'but there is a strong potential for negative surprises'.
Three researchers from Europe, North America and Australia including Francesco Tubiello, a physicist and agricultural expert at the NASA/Goddard Institute of Space Studies, prepared the report for this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
In order to keep pace with population growth, current production of grain, from which humans get two-thirds of their protein, is likely to be doubled and reach to 4 billion tons a years before 2100.