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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

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FRANCE - PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy a réclamé jeudi à Paris une nouvelle méthode de travail sur le réchauffement climatique,...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - NEW YORK - L'ONU a chargé mercredi une organisation scientifique internationale de renom de superviser les travaux de...

FRANCE - PARIS - La France accueille ce jeudi à Paris une conférence internationale ministérielle sur le rôle des forêts dans la...

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DEBATES

Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics

New Scientist

The source of the problems is been well documented: the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK,...

Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure

It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that...

The UN to the Rescue on Climate Change

Of course, the UN has played a leading role on climate...

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

18/02/2010	Si la neige n'était pas tombée juste avant le début des Jeux Olympes de...	28/01/2010	Qu'est ce que la dette climatique? Il s'agit d'un moyen de répondre à la...
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...

GREEN TIPS

North-South solidarity

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

INDICATORS

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

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