Bidegain said that while landlocked countries in this region like Bolivia and Paraguay would especially suffer the rise in temperatures, coastal countries like Argentina and Uruguay would be hit harder by the effects of the rising sea level.

In the meantime, Brazil is investing millions of dollars in efforts to study and adapt to impacts like the gradual transformation of the Amazon jungle into savannah, and has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 36.1 or 38.9 percent - depending on GDP growth levels - by 2020.

The expert said Uruguay - which is sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil - will not escape the impacts. The last five-yearly report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, said that in the best-case scenario, the average global temperature would rise between two and 2.5 degrees by 2050.

The report by Tierramerica, a specialised news service on the environment and development produced by the IPS (Inter Press Service) news agency with the backing of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that is published by 20 newspapers in the region, is based on the responses of 23 climate change experts who were sent an extensive questionnaire by email, which was then supplemented by telephone contacts.

Several of the experts are members of the IPCC, like Bidegain, who was a reviewer of the Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC and of the IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water (2008).

The aim of the special 40-page Tierramerica report, "Latin America and the Irreversible Effects of a Warmer Planet", which is available on-line in Spanish, is to analyse the state of global warming in the region, by consulting with experts, scientists and authorities, and representatives of civil society and international bodies. Updated reports will be produced periodically.

The report was presented Thursday in Montevideo by its author, Cristina Canoura, and IPS regional editor for Latin America, Diana Cariboni, ahead of the Dec. 7-18 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

In the Danish capital, delegates from around the world will try to reach agreement on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

"A worrisome aspect for Uruguay is the rise in the average sea level. There is even greater uncertainty in that respect from a scientific point of view, because there is enormous debate, and even today the models used to project this kind of variable are not entirely reliable at a global level," said Bidegain.

The IPCC projected a 60 cm rise in sea level by the end of the century, although other researchers believe that is an overly conservative estimate and warn that it could rise by over a metre.

This is especially alarming for Uruguay, said the scientist, given that this country has only seen a 10-cm rise in sea level in the past 60 years. "This would be at least six times that, which is overwhelming," he remarked.

"This, naturally, has all kinds of effects on daily life that you can't even imagine. The rise in sea level won't only cause coastal flooding, but a process of salinisation of lakes, like at the mouth of the Santa Lucia river, where Montevideo gets its water," he said.

The scientist said adaptation efforts should be prioritised over mitigation initiatives. "The change is going to happen. The greenhouse gases that we have already emitted will remain in the atmosphere. What we are seeing now is not because of what we're emitting today, but what we have released into the atmosphere in past decades," he explained.

"Global warming is inevitable in the next 50 years. That must be understood. It's inevitable, no matter what we do. What will be negotiated in Copenhagen is an agreement to achieve an at-least voluntary reduction in greenhouse gases to try to curb the warming, but unfortunately it is going to continue for several decades."

Bidegain explained the concept of irreversibility discussed in the Tierramerica report.

"There are scientists in the world pointing out that with a more than two degree rise in the average global temperature, the climate system could stabilise at a certain level, which no one knows what that would be, but at which we would all suffer. But later, even with voluntary or coordinated greenhouse gas cuts, there would be no return, even to current levels," he said.

"Our society is based on the consumption of fossil fuels which, whether coal or oil, emit greenhouse gases when we burn them. We have to think of a new kind of society, a new way of life," said Bidegain.

The researcher underlined that Uruguay has made progress, especially with the creation this year of the National System of Response to Climate Change, although he also stressed the need to design concrete long-term plans for agriculture and livestock, chief economic sectors in this country that will be affected.

Winter crops like wheat and barley will be hit hardest, according to experts. "It's necessary to think about that with respect to the future, how Uruguay is going to cover that shortage. We will have practically no flour to make bread. Are we going to replace it with another crop? Climate change presents us with opportunities as well as challenges," he said.

One of the experts surveyed for the Tierramerica report, Agustin Gimenez, said "the most evident and negative effects of climate change in Uruguay and in the region (southern Brazil and the pampas in Argentina) are the increase in climate variability and more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events."

Gimenez is national coordinator of the National Institute of Agricultural Research unit on research and development on agro-climate and information systems.

The Tierramerica report says that Latin America and the Caribbean could suffer a loss of agricultural revenue of up to 12 percent, in a scenario of mild climate change, and of up to 50 percent in a more severe scenario.

Bidegain also underscored the need for these problems to be given priority in the plans of the future government of Uruguay, which will be elected in the Nov. 29 presidential runoff election.

Tierramerica is a multimedia platform that offers news reports, interviews and columns on the environment and development in Spanish, English and Portuguese in print, audio and images. It is sponsored by UNEP, the UNDP and the World Bank.

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Because of the interconnected nature of Argentina's power supply, and the Biosphere solution invented by Dr. Christopher McCormack, officials from the Argentina government, "Garbierno de la ciudad, Ministerio De Desarrollo, Urbano Secretario Privado Planta De Gabinete, Alejandro C. Vivone", has sent a urgent invitation confirming that the government will take part in the project for immediate instillation and deployment of the Biosphere power plant in order to generate clean green electricity in Buenos Aires city of Argentina.

Argentina has a wealth of natural beauty and immensely varied scenery. It covers an area of over one million square miles and is the second largest country in South America. Electric power in Argentina is 220 volt, 50-cycle alternating current. Argentina's government's idea is to install enough biosphere systems to process 3000 tons of municipal solid waste on a daily basis while generating green electricity and clean drinking water for Buenos Aires.

Energy efficiency is of great importance to Argentina, as well as the need to manage energy demand responsibly by the government and its citizens. True Green Energy Group and NT Energy along with Global Environmental Energy Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GEECF) are now finalizing plans for this urgent meeting with authorities of the argentine government for immediate deployment of the Biosphere MKV. This meeting will in no doubt be a historical event in history as countries and people on a global scale are searching for green energy sources and ways to clean up the garbage and save planet earth.

Spectrum Blue Steel is also working with the Brazilian government as there is also a great demand for green energy and getting rid of the huge garbage problems. Just two weeks a go a massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of the country, leaving millions of people without electricity and causing widespread traffic chaos.

The outage began when the Itaipu hydroelectric dam, which supplies much of the country's electricity, suddenly went offline plunging parts of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities into darkness.

Maria Elena Romero, a journalist in Sao Paulo, told Al Jazeera: "There are also reports of Paraguay being affected by the same power outages.

"The minister of the energy of Brazil has confirmed that the outage was caused by the failure of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam. The minister didn't want to speculate on the causes for this failure, but local media say weather conditions could be the reason."

Never the less the Biosphere system can and will solve both countries problems. The management system set up By True Green Energy Corporation for Spectrum Blue Steel is zero waste, zero emission, giving both countries clean green energy while saving the planet from the enormous carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity from garbage and traditional gas and coal power plants. CO2 emission sources include emissions from energy industry, from transport, from fuel combustion in industry, services, households, etc. and industrial processes, such as the production of cement.

Spectrum Blue Steel is also very interested in carbon credit trading as The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012.

The major distinction between the Protocol and the Convention is that while the Convention encouraged industrialised countries to stabilize GHG emissions, the Protocol commits them to do so.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities." The simple fact is the Biosphere system will reduce green house gas while getting rid of garbage and delivering clean electricity to many countries that are now desperate to go green.

True Green Energy Group has identified workable solutions for the reduction of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming by promoting the deployment of the Biosphere system that is now is erecting and deploying the first two MRF management and power systems in the Philippines.

Spectrum Blue steel strategy is to "de-carbonize" the electric power generation industry by shifting to non-fossil fuel based energy sources, specifically energy-from-waste. This follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which confirmed energy-from-waste is renewable, and the Philippine Renewable Energy Law (RA 9513) of the Philippines.

Spectrum is a domestic corporation duly registered under the laws of the Philippines and holds a license to the Biosphere Technology from Global Environmental energy corporation GEECF.OB. Global is a fully integrated energy company whose interests include electrical power generation, oil and gas exploration and production, clean coal and waste management technologies.

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of the 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbor created by those sections.

Contact: Ronald Flynn, +6391-8888-0017

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However, big demand for energy will come back as soon as the economy rebounds, the IEA said, forecasting a 40 percent increase in energy demand in 2030.

The future energy demand will still focus on oil, gas and coal, which are major producers of carbon dioxide, the key element that raises the temperature, according to the IEA.

The agency also expects an annual increase of one percent for global oil demand in the coming years, from 85 million barrels per day in 2008 to 105 million barrels per day in 2030.

Prior to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, the IEA called on all countries to exert efforts to curb climate deterioration by taking financial actions, such as developing environment-friendly transportation, housing and power plants and renovating biofuels.

Weeks before the global climate negotiation in Copenhagen, there are great differences between developed and developing countries on carbon emission goals and distribution of financial and technological responsibilities.

It is "time to act," the IEA underlined, saying that world leaders should not miss the opportunity to seal a post-Kyoto agreement.

The Kyoto Protocol, a worldwide agreement on climate issue, will expire in 2012.

After a two-day deliberation, rich nations agreed to take on internationally-binding commitments while developing countries agreed to take domestic actions to cut the emission of harmful greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

In the run up to the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December, developed nations want emerging economies like India, China and Brazil to take up legally binding greenhouse gas emission cuts, a move stoutly opposed by them.