Climate change will cause the temperature to rise 0.5 oC in Cataluna.

Barcelona, June 28 .- The temperature in Wales will tend to increase to 0.5 oC over the next diez0 years and rainfall could decrease by up to 10% on annual average, according to data of the 2nd climate change report released today by the Expert Group Wales on Climate Change (GECC).

This report, which continues the "First Report on Climate Change in Wales" published in 2005,, ffxiv gil, made a more detailed approach than the first with the consequences of climate change in Wales and will be published after the summer.

With regard to greenhouse emissions, the physical and coordinator of the report, Josep Enric Llebot, will detail which have increased by 43.2% in the period 1990 to 2007 and specified that "70% of these, aika gold, emissions are linked to transport road and industrial combustion. "

To offset the emissions of 7 million inhabitants of Catalonia, the report reflects the need for a forest area of about 14.2 million hectares of forest, 12.5 times higher than the 1.13 million hectares of forest Cataluna .

The study also specifies the main impacts of climate, aika gold, change on the biophysical environment and highlights a possible increase of flash floods, mainly in the coast, "but would not be due to an increase of heavy rains, but to changes in land use soil and urbanization, "explained Llebot.

Also the average fire danger has increased over the century, according to the report, but not exclusively a consequence of climate change, since many are caused by the action of man or by the abandonment of farmland.

Climatic predictions also indicate a decrease in the availability of water in Wales, given that climate change will produce a decrease in the flow of rivers and recharge groundwater and a modification of biogeochemical processes that determine water quality.

Increasing temperatures, changing patterns of rainfall and other climatic changes are affecting ecosystems and their agencies, in addition to our society. "It is urgent to act and the more slow to react, but big and costly will be the necessary steps to take," has alarmed Llebot.

This work, which has enjoyed the collaboration of La Obra Social "La Caixa", has been promoted by the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (CADS), the Department of Environment and Housing, the Meteorological Service of Catalonia and the Institute of Catalan Studies.