A timetable to fit power stations with carbon dioxide capturing technology should be agreed by next year to avoid "dangerous and irreversible" climate change, some of the world's leading scientists will say today.

Britain's Royal Society has joined with science academies from other industrialised nations and five further countries, including China and India, to issue the warning in documents that will set the agenda for climate discussions at the G8 summit in Japan next month.

In a joint statement, the scientists lament the slow progress being made in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and call on industrialised countries to step up their efforts by developing greener housing and transport. ... Read full article