Herald: THE threat posed by climate change is growing by the day. It is made even worse by the global economic recession. However, the developing world is likely to bear the brunt of the problems. At the beginning of 2008, the Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change published a report warning of rising sea levels, expanding deserts, more intense storms and the extinction of about 30 percent of animal and plant species. According to research, the recurrent and often debilitating …