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dipsydoodle

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Fri Jun 22, 2012, 04:31 AM Jun 2012

Cuban President Warns of Consequences of Climate Change

Rio de Janeiro, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuba´s President Raul Castro, denounced today here that the global temperature rise will compromise first, integrity and physical existence of many countries and island nations, and will produce serious consequences to the Third World.

"Despite the milestone that marked the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 38 percent between 1990 and 2009", said Raul Castro speaking at the plenary session of the Summit United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20.

Now we are going towards an increase in global temperatures that will risk, first, the integrity and physical existence of many island developing States and produce serious consequences in Africa, Asia and Latin America, said the president of Cuba.

Raul Castro also said that thorough a deep and detailed study made during the past five years by Cuban scientific institutions essentially coincides with the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and confirms that in this century, if current trends continue, there will be a gradual and significant elevation of sea level in the Cuban archipelago.

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