Latin America, Caribbean fight climatic change

Chile: The fight against climatic change requires that the developing countries reach quick, sustainable growth to accelerate the reduction of gas emissions of hothouse effect, concluded Tuesday a report of the United Nations.

The document assures that the fight against global heating will not be possible without the active participation of countries in regions like Latin America and the Caribbean.

The report was presented in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The 2009 World Economic and Social Study to promote the Development, to Save the Planet, said that the control of the climatic change implies that the countries in development increase the investments in clean production and maintain a stable economic growth.

The bigger scientific knowledge and public conscience on the topic have not accelerated the creation of politics against the climatic change, especially among the advanced industrialized countries, points out the report. Still if the developed countries began to complete their commitments indeed to reduce emissions, their efforts would be insufficient to face the climatic challenge, the document said.

A change in the countries in development toward patterns of high growth and low level of emissions would imply very expensive socioeconomic adjustments and without precedents.

" If it must happen, the change will require a level of international support and solidarity that one has rarely seen outside of a context of times of war," the report said.

It alerted also that the biggest effects in the climatic change will be felt in developing countries, where there will be more intense droughts in some areas and strong precipitations in others.

The melting of the glaciers and the decrease of the ice in polar regions contribute to elevate the level of the sea, what threatens the existence of small insular nations and coastal communities that do not have the necessary resources to adapt, it added.

Santiago, Prensa Latina