BERLIN — The cost of keeping global warming in check is “relatively modest,” but only if the world acts quickly, the head of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change said Sunday.
Such gases, mainly CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, rose on average by 2.2 percent a year from 2000 to 2010, officials said as they launched the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s report on measures to fight global warming.
“The longer we delay the higher would be the cost,” said IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri after the panel’s week-long session in Berlin. “But despite that, the point I’m making is that even now, the cost is not something that’s going to bring about a major disruption of economic systems. It’s well within our reach.”
The Associated Press
