Increase of GHG between 2000 and 2006

Two weeks of the United Nations conference in Poznan in Poland on the fight against climate change, a report shows that emissions of greenhouse gases have increased in the 40 industrialized countries signed the Framework Convention of the United Nations on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

According to the UN report, emissions from these countries increased by 2.3% between 2000 and 2006 although they were 5% below their 1990 level. The UNFCCC said that the reduction has resulted primarily source, the slowdown of the economies of Central Europe and East in the 1990s, but since they increased by 7.4% between 2000 and 2006 for these countries.


Another report of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said that Asia is increasingly a victim of the phenomenon of "atmospheric brown clouds" that blind sunlight in cities like Beijing and New Delhi.

This layer of pollution of more than three kilometers thick stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to China. It is the result of human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels and biomass. These clouds, according to experts studying the phenomenon since 2002 have an impact on agricultural production and threaten the health of 3 billion people.

According to scientists, the phenomenon is observable elsewhere in Asia, particularly in parts of North America, Europe, southern Africa and Amazonia.