Brown warning of a 'catastrophe' if no climate change pact

If world leaders fail to reach an agreement on climate change, Britain, like other European countries and the rest of the world will suffer "catastrophes" in the form of natural floods, droughts and deadly heat waves.
That's the apocalyptic warning today launched the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on the last day of a meeting of 17 most polluting countries in the world aimed at bringing positions with a view to the forthcoming summit in Copenhagen on the subject.
Brown has warned the congregation that there is no "plan B" if no agreement is reached and have only 50 days to reach it. "Since I announced that I will be in Copenhagen, and I am urging the other leaders to make the same commitment."
From the summit in the Danish capital, under the auspices of the UN should output a document to replace the Kyoto Protocol that have not signed key countries like the U.S. and China. "If we fail in Copenhagen Earth will be in danger," warned the Premiership British.

Brown has assured the delegates meeting in London that heat waves like those in 2003 killed 35,000 people above the usual levels of mortality are much more frequent in the future. "An agreement can and should" put the world in the way of limiting temperature increase to two degrees, "said Brown.
"To maintain the current tenancy, such events could become common in Britain in a matter of decades. And life for our children or grandchildren, high temperatures in 2003 could become standard in much of Europe" , said Brown.
If no agreement is reached in Copenhagen, added the prime minister, the world will face new conflicts fueled by a wave of migrations of people to flee from all types of natural disasters.

For the year 2080, 1.800 million people, equivalent to a quarter of the world's population could suffer water shortages continue as climate change so far.

According to Brown, still "possible" to reach agreement in the Danish capital, but "we must recognize that our negotiators are not reaching the necessary consensus with the speed it would take.The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, recently warned the U.S. weekly Newsweek that the prospects of the states participating in the Copenhagen summit to reach an agreement seem to be "getting worse".