Climate change experts will today set out new plans for tackling global warming in the event that countries cannot reduce their carbon emissions in time.
Dubbed ‘Plan B’ the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has looked at the possibility of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and reflecting sunlight into space.
The document is important because it will be used as scientific guidance for governments as they negotiate a new global climate pact, set to be adopted in 2015
However some environmental activists watching the talks in Berlin believe geoengineering should not be attempted.
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Such technologies could be ineffective, possibly harmful and delay efforts to shift the world’s energy system from oil and coal to low-carbon energy sources like wind and solar power.
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