Photo: React to Warming Now While Costs Still Low, OECD Urges



March 5, 2008—A polluting steel mill in Poland was once part of Soviet industrialization plans.

The international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development today urged speedy action to minimize the effects of global warming and the cost of fixing them.

"A window of opportunity to act is now open," the group's new report says.

The OECD recommends governments create policies such as "green taxes" that encourage sound, environmentally friendly technologies and practices.

The developed world must help developing countries by providing them with technology and expertise, the report says.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield/National Geographic


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