Rio (UNFCC)

ISSUES

A plan to cool the Earth

Object and Challenges
Human activities have substantially increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This increase enhances the natural greenhouse effect and causes global warming, from which natural ecosystems and humankind could suffer. It is estimated, based on the current level of greenhouse gas emissions, that an additional warming between 1.5 degrees and 5.8 degrees and a sea-level increase from 9 to 88cm could occur between now and 2100. (1)
This risk was brought to light by scientists starting in the 1970s. On 6 December 1988, a Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly considered the climate change matter as a “common concern for mankind”. Created the same year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would confirm the threat of a climate change in the publication of his first report in 1990. It is in this context that on 9 May 1992 the United Nations Framework...

NEWS

World powers 'plan anti-carbon tax talks'

China bans airlines from paying EU carbon charges

Indian PM says lack of collective will on climate change

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DEBATES

Did Cancun Prove the UN Irrelevant in Tackling Climate?

Fred Pearce

The Cancun conference is being credited with keeping international climate talks alive. But the real potential for bringing...

Cancun : a Mexican success

The Cancun international agreement is the success of...

What to expect from the Cancun climate change conference

The next negotiation session will take place in Cancun from...

FOCUS

A climate Seattle

The Seattle demonstrations, during the 1999 WTO summit put alter-globalization on the international agenda and influenced negotiations for years. If the Copenhagen summit causes popular mobilization on such a...

VIDEOS

25/01/2010	Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Science found that 2009 was...	23/12/2009	Soumana Doumbia, geographer, tells us about the difficulties that farmers...
23/12/2009	Christopher Burn, a canadian geographer, tells us that global warming is...	23/12/2009	Jean-Pierre Quignard, professor in Ichtyology, tells us about the...

GREEN TIPS

North-South solidarity

Development aid is a transfer of funds and skills to help poor countries and populations towards development....

INDICATORS

GDP per capita
Carbon dioxide emissions
Total Primary Energy Supply
Ecological footprint

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