Postdam under the sun The Ministers for the environment of G8 and five emergent countries will order a report on the economic cost of the destruction of the biodiversity. This advertisement results from the meeting which east is held in Potsdam in Germany since yesterday and until this afternoon. Last October, the British economist in chief of the World Bank, Nicholas Stern, had evaluated in another report, with more than 5.500 billion euros, the cost of the global warming. Mojib Latif is an expert weather, he affirms that Germany is very strongly concerned.

“The global warming took speed. We constantly beat records and it is also the case on our premises in Germany. The summer 2003 was an absolute record, last year we knew the hottest autumn of our history and at last January, we arrived to a level ever reached since 1761.”

The meeting of Potsdam should make it possible to the participants to probe the ground before the top of G8 in June with Heiligendamm, and the launching of the negotiations on after-Kyoto in December in Bali.