A U.N. panel is examining the threat of irreversible rising sea levels and the mass extinction of species caused by climate change, as delegates draft a document laying the scientific groundwork for talks on a new regime to control carbon emissions, participants said Tuesday.
The meeting of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opened Monday with a warning from the top U.N. climate change official, Yvo de Boer, that the lives of the world's poorest people were at stake and that failure to curb greenhouse gas emissions would be "criminally irresponsible."
In closed-door sessions, delegates from more than 140 countries …
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