Climate pact will cause temperature rise, report warns

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Environmental groups have reacted to last week's Asia-Pacific climate pact by releasing a new report warning greenhouse gases will double as a direct result. The report warns this will mean a temperature rise of 4 degrees celsius by 2050.

The report paints a gloomy outlook, warning rainfall will be substantially reduced, river systems will dry up, snow cover in the Australian alps will virtually disappear and natural icons like Kakadu national park will lose their freshwater wetlands.

Under the climate change projections the report also says human health is at risk, with a prediction that 15,000 Australians will die each year as a result of heat-related illnesses. The Federal Government however, says the new international agreement signed last week will invest in technology which will address the growing implications of climate change.

"Things like the kakadu wetlands are very definitely going to be going," says the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia's chief executive Greg Bourne. "The Great Barrier Reef under a 4 degree warming it will be bleached most of the time." The Government however says it is committed to addressing the growing implications of climate change.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1550671.htm

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1. Seems to be some communication problems here?

what does the pact do?
who is it between?
I can't believe they did a climate pact that will directly increase GW?

and are you sure its environmental groups that issued this assessment.
story didn't give any details