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Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate Crash "The threat is
real," said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. "I
have seen the impacts of climate change in Antarctica and the
Amazon with my own eyes," Ban said in a press conference in
Valencia, Spain, at Saturday's public unveiling of the Synthesis
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"It is a very strong document. It sends a stark message that we
face abrupt and irreversible impacts," said Hans Verolme,
director of the climate change programme for the international
environmental group WWF. "The report shows that the window for
action is closing. Policy-makers need to take action," Verolme
told TierramÃƒ©rica in an interview from Valencia Saturday. The
24-page Synthesis Report and shorter Synthesis Summary for
Policymakers summarise the scientific findings from the IPCC's
2,800-page, three-volume assessment of climate change released
earlier in the year. "The