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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-02-09
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[01] CYPRUS CLIMATE CHANGE
[01] CYPRUS CLIMATE CHANGE
Cyprus is affected by climate change and is situated in a high risk
geographic position which will produce environmental refugees, said
Wednesday Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Demetris
Eliades.
Speaking at an event on Climate change and green development, the
Minister said that countries which are less responsible for climate
change and the pollution of the environment are the countries which
will suffer the most. Those countries, he added, will produce the first
environmental refugees, namely from Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean and
the Middle East.
Eliades said that Cyprus suffers from the consequences of climate
change like long periods of drought, fires and temperature increase.
Recalling that the Kyoto Protocol will expire at the end of 2012, he
said that this could pave the way for an overall agreement at the South
Africa Conference on climate change next year, or during Cyprus
presidency of the Council of the EU, in the second half of 2012.
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