let's bring in the author of one of the authors of this report john ferguson he is with the economist intelligence unit and joins us now from london john we're talking about the world economy 30 years from now how accurate can those predictions be. excellent it's a great question with any forecasts there is uncertainty in particular when you go out 3 decades and climate forecasting and the economic impact is also on certain that we have built a robust model which used a sort of dos model which is exceeding quite a quite a high profile model in the field and we've adapted it with our own act trying to change resilience index but as you say any forecast does have uncertainty so the thing to realize from our study is that 3 percent and some of those figures that you just spoke of if we were to miss the we've we've we believe the impact actually be higher than that we believe the risk to the club economy is higher than the nice because we just talked about it because of it because it has on certain days done is it just the balance of the damage that physically climate change will do or is it also the cost

mitigate it will make the world a poor place in 2058 that's according to a new study by the economist intelligence unit that scored more than 80 countries on their willingness and ability to confront global warming let's have a closer look at the study overall the global economy will be 3 percent smaller than baseline for cost developing nations will be worst hit the asia pacific region could see a drop of 2.6 percent in g.d.p. is particularly vulnerable to the loss of physical as well as natural disasters could grow in frequency and intensity but it is africa that is most likely exposed to the impact of most highly exposed to the impact of global warming largely as a result of under-development economy that is focused to contract by 4.7 percent and unsurprisingly which regions are most resilient the us and western europe can expect contra contractions of $1.00 or and 1.7 percent is that to flee the report zoom's countries will make modest efforts to adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change now let's bring in the author of one of the authors of this report john ferguson he is with the economist

irene mia is the global editorial director at the economist intelligence unit, and shejoins me now. a change does the world need to its die to put this into practice? well, it's going to bea this into practice? well, it's going to be a dramatic change, right? if you look at the emissions related to food,it you look at the emissions related to food, it is something like 16% of all the emissions, so there is a general problem in terms of what we are eating, there is a general problem in terms of how we are producing what we are eating, so agriculture is a very big culprit certainly in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. there is going to be change, we need to have some change. i think the tampon is obviously the problem, but also if you look in general at how much we are producing and wasting, one third of what we produce is wasted. —— i think meat is obviously the problem. there are different bids to it, different elements which we need to be taking into consideration, all related with each other, so i think it is very important to look at different waste. if we look at ourselves as i

than buying isn't the economist intelligence units access china service she explains why it's important to china to strengthen economic ties with greece and will be along the lines of the true financial gas which china desperately needs and in order to for china to diversify so energy and its new energy car industry climate change initiative china would need more helpers any support can get and groups seem to be a good entry point to europe and if china can set a good example in greek then it can potentially set up a good example to other european politicians and in public that china can do more to offer to europeans especially in this backward drop china u.s. tension the europe has become more important but within europe france and germany has been the strongest the voice on the kind of support china but not without criticisms and for greece it's had a special place china can actually offer a lot of help to solve some of its immediate problems and also to help it to achieve its long term goals. in terms of the data issues are china's willing to provide financial aid we don't talk about