Change.org - News & Discussions

Change.org - News & Discussions: "Almost one-third of the world's species will face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a United Nations report will say this week. Addressing the UN's climate panel, Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the message to world leaders was clear. 'Failure to recognise the urgency of this message and to act on it would be nothing less than criminally irresponsible,' he said... A draft circulated ahead of the conference blames human activities for rising temperatures and says cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, are needed to avert heat waves, melting glaciers and rising seas."