Climate change adaptation idea passes almost unnoticed

An idea that would delay dangerous climate change for about 30 years was discussed at the recent G8 Summit, but passed almost unnoticed.

“The Telegraph’s” Geoffrey Lean reports that G8 members appear to have taken the biggest step in years to combat climate change and, he explains, it is unrelated to carbon dioxide.

He reports in his story headed: “G8: Leaders open up vital new front in thebattle to control global warming” that “The summit's final communiqué, the Camp David Declaration, supports “comprehensive actions” to reduce “short-lived climate pollutants”.

“These substances – including black carbon (soot), methane, ground-level ozone, and hydro-fluorocarbons – are responsible for about half of global warming.”