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Climate alarm - time to get serious

Posted by bex — 23 July 2001 at 8:00am - Comments
sounding the climate alarm

sounding the climate alarm

Sirens set off by Greenpeace activists outside the United Nations climate conference sounded the alarm - it is time for ministers to start talking. Activists outside the conference unfurled a banner which read "Australia, Canada, USA - Climate Criminals" while inside Australia and Canada were doing their best to either stall or vandalise the Kyoto Protocol and frustrate attempts to combat climate change.

"It's desperation time for the world's climate and this conference," said Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace climate campaigner.

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The History of the Climate Talks

Last edited 19 July 2001 at 8:00am
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walrus on iceflow

The road to Kyoto stretches back to the mid-1980s when increasing scientific evidence of human interference with the climate and growing public concern over environmental issues began to push climate change onto the political agenda.

Recognising the need for authoritative scientific information the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 and in 1990 the IPCC published it First Assessment Report. The report confirmed that climate change was indeed a threat and called for a global treaty to address the problem.

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The threat of climate change

Last edited 16 July 2001 at 8:00am
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Walrus group

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organisation in 1988 to provide authoritative scientific information on climate change. Since its inception the IPCC has reported with increasing urgency on the threat that climate change poses to the planet.

Their latest reports, published earlier this year, paint a grim picture of life in a warming world, and describe the measures that are needed to fight it, for which only the political will is missing.

Article tagged as: climate change, impacts, IPCC, science, UN, world meteorological organisation