ANALYSIS - Climate change doom reports don't stack up


  • World
  • Thursday, 01 Feb 2007

LONDON (Reuters) - Behind the picture of a serious climate change threat, painted in a U.N. report to be published on Friday, just how fast mankind can act remains unsure. 

"There are so many reports," said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency and author of one of the biggest, the IEA's 596-page World Energy Outlook 2006. 

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