Averting climate change catastrophe is still possible, says environment minister
15 Apr 2014, 12:37 PM
Lucy Lovell
Minister of Environment and Energy Thoriq Ibrahim has called for a cap on global temperature rise, and pledged to increase renewable energy to 30% in the next 5 years.
“Averting catastrophe is still possible,” said Thoriq in a statement released yesterday (April 14).
“The impacts of climate change are already being felt, and that is why we are calling for a cap of 1.5 degree Celcius.”
Thoriq’s pledges were made in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report entitled ‘Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change’, released on March 31.
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