L. America, Caribbean heavily hit by global warming

Experts warned Saturday Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering from global warming, and the problem may become more serious due to the lack of proper measures.

The statement came in the report "Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean" presented to the ongoing World Meeting on Climate Change, which will last 12 days and end here on Friday.

The experts believed that the climate change caused by greenhouse gases will bring serious consequences to Latin America and the Caribbean although the countries are seldom blamed for causing the problem.

About 70 percent of the greenhouse gases in Latin America are produced by Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, which however accounted for only 8.0 percent of the world's total. Latin America's output of industrial carbon dioxide reached only 4.3 percent ofthe global total, the report said.

Nevertheless, poverty, degradation of natural resources, and lack of plans to cope with damages have made the region vulnerableto climate change.

Increased intensity and frequency of hurricanes, changes of rain patterns, rising river levels, reduction of glaciers in Patagonia and the Andes are all symptoms of global warming in Latin America and the Caribbean, the report said

The experts asked Latin America and the Caribbean to demand developed countries cut the emission of greenhouse gases.

Source: Xinhua