Climate change - European Commission
... environmental, economic and social impacts over the coming decades. Long in the vanguard of international efforts to combat climate change, the European Union aims to ensure the world takes action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is an important first st ...
... environmental, economic and social impacts over the coming decades. Long in the vanguard of international efforts to combat climate change, the European Union aims to ensure the world takes action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is an important first st ...
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS Atmosphere Climate Change Core
... International Conventions and Agreements: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force in March 1994 and as of 11 April 2007 has received 191 instruments of ratification or accession. The Kyoto Protocol to the Convention was adopted in December 1997 and entered into f ...
... International Conventions and Agreements: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force in March 1994 and as of 11 April 2007 has received 191 instruments of ratification or accession. The Kyoto Protocol to the Convention was adopted in December 1997 and entered into f ...
Climate Change
... The official title of the Copenhagen conference, which took place December 2009. Alternatively, it can be called the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Broadly speaking, any ex-Soviet bloc state. At the time the Kyoto Protocol was ad ...
... The official title of the Copenhagen conference, which took place December 2009. Alternatively, it can be called the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Broadly speaking, any ex-Soviet bloc state. At the time the Kyoto Protocol was ad ...
Statement by BAN Ki-moon at the opening of the high
... That is the challenge before us today. That is the imperative. It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment. Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake. People’s lives, the health of global economy, the very survival of some nations. The science is clear. ...
... That is the challenge before us today. That is the imperative. It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment. Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake. People’s lives, the health of global economy, the very survival of some nations. The science is clear. ...
Ozone
... • Many characteristics of the global warming problem make it substantially different from other environmental problems. These include: – Have to deal with all GHG simultaneously – Temporal separation btw. emissions and damages – High degree of uncertainty (scientific understanding of physical impact ...
... • Many characteristics of the global warming problem make it substantially different from other environmental problems. These include: – Have to deal with all GHG simultaneously – Temporal separation btw. emissions and damages – High degree of uncertainty (scientific understanding of physical impact ...
Climate Change: Issues Underlying Negotiations at the Bali Conference of Parties
... continue on the Protocol and particularly on measures to reduce GHGs after the Protocol commitment period ends in 2012. A key element of both the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol is “common but differentiated responsibilities,” which has meant that while all nations, developed or developing, have respo ...
... continue on the Protocol and particularly on measures to reduce GHGs after the Protocol commitment period ends in 2012. A key element of both the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol is “common but differentiated responsibilities,” which has meant that while all nations, developed or developing, have respo ...
The Kyoto Protocol and Global Climate Change
... place, EU-15 emissions are expected to decline by only 0.6% in 2010. If additional measures that have been agreed at national and EU level will be implemented in full, the reduction will increase to 4.6%. This means that almost half of the EU reductions will have to be achieved by making use of carb ...
... place, EU-15 emissions are expected to decline by only 0.6% in 2010. If additional measures that have been agreed at national and EU level will be implemented in full, the reduction will increase to 4.6%. This means that almost half of the EU reductions will have to be achieved by making use of carb ...
The obscure future of the Kyoto protocol - Hal-SHS
... PK2 and no hiatus between PK1 and PK2. During the 2nd MOP, which was held in 2006 at Nairobi, jointly with the 12th COP, the AWG-KP meetings did not lead to the definition of commitments for an eventual PK 2. While negotiations continued under the leadership of AWG-KP, the Bali action plan, adopted ...
... PK2 and no hiatus between PK1 and PK2. During the 2nd MOP, which was held in 2006 at Nairobi, jointly with the 12th COP, the AWG-KP meetings did not lead to the definition of commitments for an eventual PK 2. While negotiations continued under the leadership of AWG-KP, the Bali action plan, adopted ...
Consultation on setting New Zealand`s post
... Agriculture is the major contributor to New Zealand's emissions (almost 50% of our total emissions) largely through the breeding of animals for food. Not only is this an inefficient means of food production but it has also led to large scale deforestation and degradation of water quality and rivers ...
... Agriculture is the major contributor to New Zealand's emissions (almost 50% of our total emissions) largely through the breeding of animals for food. Not only is this an inefficient means of food production but it has also led to large scale deforestation and degradation of water quality and rivers ...
I attended the recent ASHRAE (American Society of Heating
... “banks”. Banks are the total amount of substances contained in existing equipment, chemical stockpiles, foams and other products not yet released to the atmosphere. Quoting the report, “Current emissions of ODSs and their substitutes are largely determined by historic use patterns. For CFCs and HCFC ...
... “banks”. Banks are the total amount of substances contained in existing equipment, chemical stockpiles, foams and other products not yet released to the atmosphere. Quoting the report, “Current emissions of ODSs and their substitutes are largely determined by historic use patterns. For CFCs and HCFC ...
European Climate Exchange Glossary
... An arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries (Annex I countries) with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries (non-Annex I countries) as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own co ...
... An arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries (Annex I countries) with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries (non-Annex I countries) as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own co ...
Draft – Review of Durban Outcome – Legal Form
... One of the headline asks going into Durban was the agreement of a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. This has been secured – albeit with minimal participation by 38 countries including the EU, Switzerland and Norway. Japan, Canada and Russia are not taking part – and New Zealand and Aus ...
... One of the headline asks going into Durban was the agreement of a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. This has been secured – albeit with minimal participation by 38 countries including the EU, Switzerland and Norway. Japan, Canada and Russia are not taking part – and New Zealand and Aus ...
Topic 10 Climate Change
... long term goal of limiting global temperature increase to no more than 2C above preindustrial levels, but the overall level of mitigation achieved to date by cooperation appears inadequate to achieve this goal” ...
... long term goal of limiting global temperature increase to no more than 2C above preindustrial levels, but the overall level of mitigation achieved to date by cooperation appears inadequate to achieve this goal” ...
ACP common position paper - Global Climate Change Alliance
... 6. We firmly maintain that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. ...
... 6. We firmly maintain that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. ...
Foreword by R.K. Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC
... substantially across the planet but the capacity to adapt is also very diverse in different societies. What could be labeled as a dangerous level of anthropogenic interference may have already been reached or even exceeded in some parts of the world. Some small island states, for instance, often wit ...
... substantially across the planet but the capacity to adapt is also very diverse in different societies. What could be labeled as a dangerous level of anthropogenic interference may have already been reached or even exceeded in some parts of the world. Some small island states, for instance, often wit ...
Jamaica One of Six Caribbean Territories in the Top 40 Climate Hot
... of climate change. Therefore, an analysis of already observable changes in climate conditions in different regions indicates which countries are particularly endangered,” Germanwatch said. The impact of climate change on small island developing states such as the Caribbean and the urgent need for th ...
... of climate change. Therefore, an analysis of already observable changes in climate conditions in different regions indicates which countries are particularly endangered,” Germanwatch said. The impact of climate change on small island developing states such as the Caribbean and the urgent need for th ...
THE CONFERENCE OF COPENHAGEN -2010
... binding and ambitious climate agreement, giving the world hope for a better future. The first official draft fell to the negotiating table early enough, according to which developed countries should, by 2020, reduce emissions by 70-85%. This was a highly ambitious project, which was rejected, as exp ...
... binding and ambitious climate agreement, giving the world hope for a better future. The first official draft fell to the negotiating table early enough, according to which developed countries should, by 2020, reduce emissions by 70-85%. This was a highly ambitious project, which was rejected, as exp ...
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) man-made CO2 emissions have caused it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December, 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. There are currently 192 Parties (Canada withdrew effective December 2012) to the Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to ""a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"" (Art. 2). The Protocol is based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities: it puts the obligation to reduce current emissions on developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. A second commitment period was agreed on in 2012, known as the Doha Amendment to the protocol, in which 37 countries have binding targets: Australia, the European Union (and its 28 member states), Belarus, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have stated that they may withdraw from the Protocol or not put into legal force the Amendment with second round targets. Japan, New Zealand and Russia have participated in Kyoto's first-round but have not taken on new targets in the second commitment period. Other developed countries without second-round targets are Canada (which withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in 2012) and the United States (which has not ratified the Protocol). As of July 2015, 36 states have accepted the Doha Amendment, while entry into force requires the acceptances of 144 states.Negotiations were held in Lima in 2014 to agree on a post-Kyoto legal framework that would obligate all major polluters to pay for CO2 emissions. China, India, and the United States have all signaled that they will not ratify any treaty that will commit them legally to reduce CO2 emissions.