This week, Montreal (Canada) has witnessed the opening of the biggest meeting on climate change since the Kyoto Conference in 1997. The United Nations (UN) Climate Change conference in Montreal follows the entry into force of the Kyoto protocol earlier this year. Over 8000 participants from industrialised countries and developing nations will try to define the technical means to achieve the emission targets for 2012 and beyond.
The science behind climate change: a summary by GreenFacts
For non-specialists in need of background information on scientific aspects of climate change, GreenFacts is pleased to provide a reader-friendly summary of the Third Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on www.greenfacts.org/studies/climate_change. The summary of this leading scientific consensus document is also available in French, German, and Spanish.
Manuel Carmona Yebra | Source: alphagalileo
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