\CANBERRA cheap nike air max 2019 online uk , Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Australia could do more to combat climate change but its plan to reduce carbon emissions by 5 percent by 2020 was "one of the world's leading" reduction targets, according to Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
Responding to a major report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Hunt conceded on Monday "we can all do more" to combat climate change but said the report vindicated the government's 2.5 billion AUD Direct Action policy.
His comments came as a leading climate change scientist from the Australian National University warned that Sydney, Melbourne and other capital cities would soon experience temperatures of 50 degrees, if the government did not start to take drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr Elizabeth Hanna, from the Climate Change Adaptation Research Network at ANU's College of Medicine cheap nike air max 2019 trainers uk , Biology & Environment, whose research featured in the IPCC report, said "There is a level of urgency that now permeates the report, and we don't have many years left to reduce our levels of carbon in the atmosphere."
"We are definitely on track for more warming, more extreme weather events. It won't be too long, according to these trajectories cheap nike air max 2019 china uk , that capital cities will start to experience temperatures over 50 degrees. If that happens, we are risking mass death events in Australia, similar to the death tolls due to extreme heat overseas."
In its landmark review, the IPCC said that the planet is unequivocally warming, that burning fossil fuels is significantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change - like sea level rises - are already being felt.
It also said most of the world's electricity should be produced from low carbon sources by 2050 and that fossil fuel burning for power should be virtually stopped by the end of the century.
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said the report was the most comprehensive appraisal of climate change yet and that human influence was clear.
"Science has spoken, there is no ambiguity in their message cheap nike air max 2019 mens uk ," he said. "The report found that the world is largely very ill- prepared for the risk of changing climate, especially the poor and most vulnerable, who have contributed least to this problem."
"Leaders must act. Time is not on our side."
Australia's leaders, including Hunt and Prime Minister Tony Abbott, were non-committal, however cheap nike air max 2019 womens uk , when asked to respond to the report's key findings.
"I won't be drawn on it either way, it's a fresh report," Hunt told the ABC on Monday