Greenpeace activists try to promote the use of renewable energy, using solar and wind power, on November 29, 2011 on the Durban beachfrontAfrica will need between $200 and $350 billion a yr by means of 2070 to shore up its defences against local weather exchange, a UN report mentioned Tuesday. The $200-billion (a hundred and fifty-billion-euro) determine is a best possible-case state of affairs, in response to meeting the goal of limiting average global warming to 2.0 levels Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report mentioned. It used to be issued on the sidelines of UN local weather talks in Warsaw which are working towards sealing a global deal by using 2015 to reach the two C target. “Lacking the two.0 C window won’t handiest cost governments billions of dollars but will risk the lives and livelihoods of a whole lot of thousands and thousands of individuals on the African continent and in different places,” UNEP chief Achim Steiner said in a statement.