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Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
The world's richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to
the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions
of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought
and rising seas.
But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal
with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of
dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world's most
vulnerable regions-most of them close to the equator and overwhelmingly
poor.
Next Friday, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, a United Nations body that since 1990 has been assessing global warming,
will underline this growing climate divide, according to scientists involved in
writing it-with wealthy nations far from the equator not only experiencing fewer
effects but also better able to withstand them.
Twothirds of the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide, a heattrapping
greenhouse gas that can persist in the air for centuries, has come in nearly
equal proportions from the United States and Western European countries. Those
and other wealthy nations are investing in windmillpowered plants that turn
seawater to drinking water, in flood barriers and floatable homes, and in grains
and soybeans genetically altered to flourish even in a drought.
In contrast, Africa accounts for less than 3 percent of the global
emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burning since 1900, yet its 840 million
people face some of the biggest risks from drought and disrupted water supplies,
according to new scientific assessments. As the oceans swell with water from
melting ice sheets, it is the crowded river deltas in southern Asia and Egypt,
along with small island nations, that are most at risk.
"Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic," said
Henry I. Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "A
much higher fraction of passengers from the cheaper decks were lost. We'll see
the same phenomenon with global warming."
"The inequity of this whole situation is really enormous if you look at
who's responsible and who's suffering as a result," said Rajendra K. Pachauri,
chairman of the United Nations climate panel. In its most recent report, in
February, the panel said that decades of warming and rising seas were inevitable
with the existing greenhousegas buildup, no matter what was done about cutting
future greenhouse gas emissions.
Many other experts insist this is not an eitheror situation. They say that
cutting the vulnerability of poor regions needs much more attention, but add
that unless emissions are curbed, there will be centuries of warming and rising
seas that will threaten ecosystems, water supplies, and resources from the poles
to the equator, harming rich and poor.
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