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37 island states may disappear under oceans !
UNITED NATIONS. Feb 15: Officials from 37 Island states worldwide say their countries could disappear beneath the oceans without immediate action to reduce global warming, reports Reuter.
The envoys, representing about 23 million inhabitants, protested at a conference on Friday about the lack of emergency measures to stabilise the earth's climate. ■
There Is really a threat for survival and entire cultures may be lost.' said Robert Burl Lierop. the UN Ambassador from the Pacific Island chain of Vanuatu.
He outlined the Impact of flooding in the south Pacific Island stales of Tuvalu and Kiribati and said four Islands of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean had been evacuated.
"We will soon have a new class of ecological refugees — people who do not have any hinterlands.' he said
Several scientists said climate changes had led to icecaps melting on northern glaciers, causing a rise In sea level and the destruction or 'bleaching of coral reefs.
The recorded rise in sea levels over the past century was only 10 to 15 cm (four to nix Inches) but Increases over the next 40 yeurs are already estimated at 17 to 26 cm (6.6 to 10 inches), according to the intergovernmental
panel on climate change.
Islands as well as all low-lying coastal areas, such as in Guyana and Bangladesh, face severe Hooding, disrupting agriculture and fresh water supplies.
John Topping of the Washington-based Climate Institute said industrialised nations were not spared the effect* of cllmute change although they could cope more easily with destruction. He pointed to agriculture disaster* In Mexico and the Rio Grande valley of Texas.
Tlte US Environmental Protection Agency estimated 400 billion dollar might be needed In the next century to protect "strategic assets" of the American coastline, said Dr Jeremy Leggett of the Environmental Group Greenpeace.
That Is beyond the means of developing countries." Ik- said.
The day-long conference, organised by the Alliance of Small Island States, was held to prepare for Tuesday s session of an Intergovernmental committee drafting a convention on climate change.
The draft treaty will be submitted to the UN sponsored earth summit In Rio de Janeiro In June. It will set targets to cut emissions from chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals that dam
age the ozone layer, and gasses that contribute to global warming.
Danielle de St Jorre. Planning and Foreign Minister for the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, described roads that turned Into rivers, airports under water and forests damaged
She blamed donor nations which approved her environmental protection plans a year ago at a Paris conference.
"After hundreds of telexes, fetters and trav cis abroad, wc found out that the disbursement of funds is more or less at zero level." she said
Another copy from Brussels adds: Europe's metals and chemicals Industries warned Friday they faced closure If attempts by the European parliament to ban Imports and exports of garbage to and from the European Community succeeded.
The Strasbourg-based assembly Is pushing for proposed EC control on shipments of all kind* of waste. Including recyclable materials like metals, paper and glass, to be turned Into an export and Import ban In seven years time.
"A solution of this kind would . destroy a substantial part of some industrial sectors which are highly dependent on Imports from outside the EC. without Improving In any way the quality of the overall environment." the European Chemical Industry Council. CEFIC
said
In separate but similarly-worded statements. CEFIC. the metals Industry association. Euromctaux and the non-ferrous metals body. Eurometrec warned that a ban on Imports of recyclable materials would also have serious consequences for other European industries like paper.
They underlined that the future of sophisticated plants In Europe for recycling scrap metal and other waste would be in Jeopardy if Imports were banned.
"If some countries were not able to export these recyclable* to Europe or to other industrialised nations with high tech facilities, the materials would then have to be disposed of on-site . . which would be environmentally counterproductive." Eurometric said
But the environmental group Greenpeace argue* that wealthy countries often use recycling a* a pretext for dumping hazardous waste tn eastern Europe and the third world. It ta calling for a total ban on trade In hazardous materials
Industry'* coordinated attack on the parliaments proposal* was timed to put pressure on the assembly’* Influential environment committee to »<>ftcn its position at a key meeting next Monday and Tuesday