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2 degrees C warming target now 'out of reach' -- ex UN climate chief http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1333318191
The UN's former climate chief on Tuesday said the global warming pledge he helped set at the Copenhagen Summit little more than two years ago was already unattainable.
"I think two degrees is out of reach," Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said on the sidelines of a conference here on June's Rio+20 summit....
"The two degrees is lost but that doesn't mean for me we should forget about it," de Boer said in the interview with AFP.
"It is a very significant target, it's not just a target that was plucked out of the air, it refers to trying to limit a number of impacts."...
On Sunday, 20 winners of the Blue Planet Prize, one of the world's most prestigious green awards, said there was only a "50-50" chance of limiting warming to 3 C (5.4 F).
There were "serious risks" of a 5 C (9.0 F) rise, a temperature last seen on the planet 30 million years ago.
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