On Thursday 22 October the British Ambassador Andrew Page presented the 4 Degree Map to the State Secretary for Environment, Zoran Kus. The map illustrates some of the impacts that may occur if the global average temperature risies by 4 °C above the pre-industrial climate average.

Ambassador Page stressed the high vulnerability of every region due to higher global temperature. He said that if we fail to deliver a global agreement, climate change has potential to shift relationships between countries and it could lead to an increasingly isolationist and protectionist world.  He furhtermore underscored that we cannot cope with a 4 °C rise. »We have the technology and the opportunity to stop this future but we must act now and reach an ambicious, fair and effective global agreement in Copenhagen«.

Read Ambassador's article about the Four Degrees Map (in Slovene; published in daily Delo, 22 October 2009)

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