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Devastating consequences of overconsumption of water, reducing rainfall and extreme weather caused the Mediterranean worsening climate change and the increasingly frequent droughts in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to lead to increased illegal immigration.
The temperature in Athens can climb to 50 degrees in a few years, sea levels will rise by one meter and the impact on farming and tourism are irreversible, said Dimitris Lalas representative of our country's climate and Director of Environment Minister Tina Birbili.
Biblical disasters caused by global warming on the environment, described in detail representatives from 13 Mediterranean countries during the two-day conference on climate change held at the initiative of Prime Minister and aims at awakening the small states against the climate Armageddon.
Advocate the idea of ??setting up a group of Mediterranean countries, large and small to be seen together the themes of change and protostastisei in international fora to address climate change, see the Environment Minister Tina Birbili, suggesting a systematic effort at adaptation measures in energy, industry and agricultural production.
Small basket for Cancun
One year after the sinking concluded in Copenhagen where the political commitment not to exceed the global temperature 2 degrees Celsius in the coming years, the world comes to a second date next December in Cancun in Mexico.
But at this meeting the participants go holding a small basket. Mr. Lalas believes that the messages for the new negotiations is positive and states that are in danger of reaching the 2012 expiring Kyoto Protocol without continuity.
According to the Director of the European Commissioner for Climate Action Ms. Connie Chedegkor 'expectations for Mexican summit is more modest than last year's conference and Cancun is only an intermediate step in concluding a comprehensive and legally binding global agreement climate.
On his own estimate for future negotiations expressed during the previous days, the former Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. As said, the international agreement energized by the inaction of the U.S. and featured significant cooperation between Mediterranean countries, which should find a common component in the different goals set by each one separately.
Big crunch to meet the goals remains the financing of new investments even in times of economic recession and high volatility.
The European Investment Bank appears willing to finance their respective operations, although as emphasized representatives will be required each country to develop its own investment plan. It is estimated that the Bank will raise the level of investment aimed at tackling climate change 25% of annual funding.
