German official urges world efforts on climate protect
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Xinhua, July 27, 2011
A German climate official on Tuesday called on the world to "massively" force climate protection as the global emission of greenhouse gas keep rising.
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Enercon, Germany’s largest wind turbine manufacturer. [File photo] |
"The year 2010 was not a good year for global climate protection. The existing mitigation commitments and actions are not sufficient to limit global warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100," Gerhard Adrian, President of the German Weather Service (DWD), told an annual climate press conference.
Nearly 31 billion tons of CO2 has been emitted into the atmosphere worldwide in 2010, reaching a record, while the situation is even worse in the first half of 2011, which is expected to refresh the record for the whole year, said DWD in its report.
"If we do not turn around quickly, reaching internationally binding agreement, we will be left stranded on climate protection," said Adrian, as no binding agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases has been reached in the world right now.
The report said, if global warming reaches two to four degrees by 2100, Germany is predicted to have drier summers, wetter winters and more extreme weather events, which will change construction sectors, as a building is significantly influenced by air temperature, precipitation, humidity, solar radiation and wind speed.
"This climate change will directly affect the construction, which is highly related with weather and climate," said Paul Becker, vice president of DWD.
Adrian also cherished the quick development of renewable energies in Germany and abroad in recent years, which will "provide a key contribution to reducing CO2 emissions," and the establishment of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) under the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which can serve as a platform for exchanging world climate information and knowledge.
