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U.N. puts small price on halting global warming
04 May 2007 05:53:30 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, May 4 (Reuters) - Limiting global warming to a 2 degrees centigrade rise would cost 0.12 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a U.N. climate change report said on Friday.

The third report by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) on ways to fight greenhouse gas emissions was finalised after a week-long meeting in Bangkok.


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