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Green Groups warn of risk to the planet, claiming that the legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is not enough

Scientists and environmental groups warned that urgent action was needed to save the world yet of climate change, despite the agreement signed Sunday morning in Durban after two weeks of talks.

Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said: "This empty shell of a plan leaves the planet at full speed towards catastrophic climate change is a stone If Durban historic step towards success in the world. Emergency set ambitious targets for reducing emissions. "Although the government managed to find a last-minute agreement that should lead to the first legally binding international agreement on climate change, covering both developed and developing, do not discuss whether his promises to reduce emissions would prevent dangerous levels of global warming.

Durban under the agreement, governments now spend four years of negotiations on the distance and the speed with which each country must reduce its carbon emissions.

Atkins said that science was clear - the current emission targets set by developed and developing countries has been inadequate, and if you have not strengthened, the poorest are hardest hit . "Millions of people the world's poorest are already experiencing the impacts of climate change - in countries like the U.S. did to create this crisis by taking the initiative to fight," said

other environmental groups and scientists agreed.

"What is positive in Durban is that governments have opened the door to a legally binding global agreement involving major emitters in the world, a door that many thought the conference closed Copenhagen in 2009, "said Bill Hare, director of the Climate Action Tracker.

"What remains is to take bolder action to reduce emissions, and until this is done, we are always at the head of global 3C. There are no new commitments on the table and the process Durban agreed to increase the ambition and the increase in emissions is uncertain in its results. "

Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute, London School of Economics, said the current commitments of countries to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gas emissions are not sufficient to maintain the global temperature to 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels, beyond what scientists say that climate change becomes catastrophic and irreversible.

Several participants in the talks said today that the promises were addressed in the conference last year in Cancun, where countries have confirmed their emission targets. Instead, this year was diplomacy, especially the question of whether countries should be required to reduce emissions through an international treaty, and should take voluntary commitments. The question has dogged the negotiations over a decade.

At the climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, wrote a treatise of nations, even though he signed a minor form of the agreement, in which the largest emitters in the world - developed and developing - have set targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2020.
However, the objectives have been established will be reviewed from 2013 up to 15 to decide whether they should be tempered, especially in light of a scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which will published in 2014. The Secretary of climate change, Chris Huhne said: "The direction of travel is clear - the objectives can only strengthen the scientific evidence is increasingly clear .."

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