China, India speed climate change: Australian report

SYDNEY (AFP) – The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urgent, an official Australian report found Thursday.

…In his interim findings, Garnaut said rapid industrialisation in China and India meant climate change was happening faster than expected and the solution lay in finding clean methods of achieving global economic expansion.

“Due to a sustained period of high economic growth led by China and India, the world is moving towards high risks of dangerous climate change more rapidly than has been generally understood,” he said.

“Faster emissions growth makes mitigation more urgent and more costly,” he said. “The challenge is to end the linkage between economic growth and emissions of greenhouse gases.”

AFP