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Intergovt Panel Sees Climate Change Solutions Strategy

November 23, 2007
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf
http://biopact.com//11/ipcc-scientists-call-on-bioenergy-and.html

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Synthesis Report, integrating their other previous reports on scientific evidence and impacts of climate change, as well as mitigation/adoption strategies. The report gives a warning that climate change is “unequivocal” and that the “window for mitigation and implementation strategies is rapidly closing”. The report calls for the implementation of strategies to deal with “abrupt climate change” to be done as quickly as possible. Strategies that “draw on carbon negative bioenergy and biofuels” have been cited. “Bionergy with carbon storage” (BECS), or “Biotic Carbon Capture and Storage”, have been recognized by IPCC scientists. In the agricultural sector, the Biopact reports that one method of carbon storage is the conversion of bioenergy crops into biofuels, and retaining part of the biomass in the form of “biochar” which can be applied to the soil. Details of the complete report can be obtained from the URL of the IPCC website above..