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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Canada has actually delivered more GHG most years! At the current pace, it seems that by 2010, the level of our emissions will be 27 per 100 higher than 1990! It is time to take concrete measures if we want to respect international understanding.
 The Kyoto Protocol consists of ten sections, or articles, which set out the measures that participating countries have agreed to take to reduce their GHG emissions. For example, every industrialized country has agreed to develop its own plan on climate change. The plan will outline what measures to take the country in question to reduce its emissions of GHGs. Countries may also take measures through which the environment will absorb more greenhouse gases (for example, protecting and planting forests, which absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere).
Every industrialized country has also clarified what would be its level of emissions in 2012 and all countries have agreed to achieve considerable progress by 2005.
Each country has also received the right to produce a certain quantity of greenhouse gases. If a country produces less greenhouse gas than the amount he was awarded, it has the right to sell its surplus units authorized - its pollution credits - to other countries! This is called an "emissions trading". |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Governments have talked a lot about climate change. They talked a lot about ways in which everyone can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that we all spread into the atmosphere.Some discussions have been of considerable importance. Governments of countries all over the world met and discussed together to find ways to reduce emissions globally. The task was not easy and there has certainly been some outlets beak!
This fact sheet provides an overview of these discussions and gives you an idea of what governments have agreed to do. It also describes why some people say we should not overly concern us of climate change.
Climate change is a global problem and governments around the world to speak for years. Here is a summary of key talks which have been committed.
World Conference on Climate Change
In 1988, Canada hosted an international conference in Toronto that has sounded the alarm regarding climate change. Scientists and policy makers attending the conference have said that we should act now to address climate change. They issued the recommendation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to a level that would p. 20 100 lower than the 1988 level. According to them, we should proceed with this reduction by 2005.
Second conference on climate change
Two years later, in 1990, scientists have participated in another conference on climate change. They appealed to governments to conclude an international agreement aimed at reducing the quantity of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released into the atmosphere.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
 Temperature measurements made in the world since 1860 show an increase in average global temperature since the beginning of the 20th century. The increase was 0.6 ° C in 2000, it reached 0.75 ° C in 2007 and the 11 warmest years on a global scale since 1860 fall within the last 12 years.
Indirect measures of climatic conditions (study of tree growth through the size of the ring, studying the growth of corals, study of sedimentary deposits, etc.). Show that even taking into account the uncertainty the reconstitution by these methods, since at least 1000 years, the Earth's atmosphere has never been so hot that (surface).On the continents, and particularly in France, the warming is much stronger than global. Thus, while the globe is warmed by 0.7 ° C in a century, the increase in Annecy reached 1.5 ° C (period 1906 to 2006).
Climate change in the world, particularly in France and Haute-Savoie.
Fountain of most glaciers in the world and the Arctic ice:The length of most glaciers in the world is being reduced. The Arctic ice undergoes a decline in its thickness and its surface.
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 Climate change and forests are inextricably linked. On the one hand, forests are already suffering the consequences of climate change on the planet by an increase in average annual temperatures, altered patterns of precipitation and extreme weather events more frequent.On the other hand, forests and the timber they produce capture and store carbon dioxide, playing a key role in mitigating climate change. Reverse of the coin: when they are over-exploited or destroyed and burned, forests can become sources of greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.
"We certainly need to stop deforestation and increase the acreage of forest land masses," said Wulf Killmann, who chairs the interdepartmental working group of FAO on climate change. "But we also need to replace fossil fuels with biofuels - fuels such as wood sustainably managed forests - in order to reduce carbon emissions. We should also use more wood in sustainable products to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere for longer periods. "
How to trap one trillion tons of carbon
When fossil fuels burn, they emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thus contributing to global warming and climate change.
Forests and trees help to mitigate these changes by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting during photosynthesis carbon they store then in the form of wood and vegetation, a process known as the term "carbon sequestration".
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
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If we calculate the human cost of global warming, countries will be forced to listen and take notes, according to a former senior United Nations.
Most people do not feel concerned by projections of rising temperatures or by the impact of climate change on the economy, but if it establishes a link between estimates of global warming and potential death, then countries will be forced to consider plans for prevention, noted Yvette Stevens, former deputy coordinator of emergency United Nations.
We need a''''Stern report on the human cost; people are not motivated by the impact of global warming on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of countries, "said Stevens, who left the UN recently to retire.According to the Stern Report on the economics of climate change, written in 2006 by economist Nicholas Stern for the British government, if countries do not master their greenhouse gas emissions, the overall cost of climate change would amount to an loss of at least five per cent of global GDP each year. However, according to the report, the cost of reducing emissions to avoid the worst effects of global warming would amount to one percent of global GDP each year.
So far, projections and other forecasts of global warming have failed to inspire a majority of countries to develop national action plans.
Molly Hellmuth, a scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, located in the USA, observed that only 49 of the least developed countries (LDCs) had drawn up action programmes in favour of a National climate adaptation, as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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