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MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...
as much as possible. For instance, Denmark, Britain, and Germany have to pay through the nose for emissions reductions in their countries. In this case, they could spend money to reach the same goals in other countries where similar measures cost much less, achieving a tangible environmental improvement.Global warming-related problems are getting worse with every passing year. The KP, which aims at slowing down this process, is therefore gaining in importance. Every new report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points to an increasing anthropogenic contribution to climate change; the percentage of that change for which humankind is responsible went up from 60% five years ago to 90% last January. Predictions of warming in the 21st century have been going up as well. Initially, experts mentioned 1 degree Celsius, then 1.5. Now optimists are talking about 2 degrees, while pessimists predict 6.5 degrees by the late 21st century.