Emissions Growth Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns

By Paul Racette, posted on November 18th, 2007 in Biodiversity, Climate, Energy

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Originally Published by washingtonpost.com - Science News and Headlines From The Washington Post

The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet’s species from global warming, according to top United Nations’ scientists.

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