To highlight the dangers posed by climate change the British High Commissioner, Peter Millett, today delivered a map to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcos Kyprianou and to the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources Egli Pantelakis.
 

The new map was launched at the Science Museum in London by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband and clearly illustrates the impact of a global 4°C rise in temperatures.

The map has been launched ahead of December’s climate change negotiations in Copenhagen and shows how this is an issue which will affect everyone. For example, were global temperatures to rise by 4°C then, the map shows, hottest days in Cyprus could increase by as much as 8°C with an increased frequency of drought.

The map represents the cutting-edge peer-reviewed science on the impacts. The Met Office Hadley Centre produced the map drawing together contributions from 27 leading scientists.

Peter Millett said that “The purpose of the map is to show the severe multiple impacts of climate change in a 4°C world and why we must put all our efforts into meeting a 2°C target beyond which the risks of dangerous climate change become much greater.”

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