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Apr 5, 2007

U.N. to look at climate change threats (AP)

Chief Scientist at WWF's Global Climate Change Programme Dr. Lara Hansen  gestures while talking to the media during a joint press conference with Director of WWF's Global Climate Change Programme Hans Verolme, unseen, at the Residence Palace in Brussels, Thursday April 5, 2007. Ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Second Working Group Report currently held in Brussels, the WWF details the work being undertaken in each of the ten regions to build defenses against the damaging impacts of climate change.  (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier)AP - The U.N. Security Council put climate change on its agenda for the first time, warning global warming could be a catalyst for new conflict around the world.