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First World Climate Conference
Climate change was officially recognised as a serious problem needing an international response when evidence of increasing carbon dioxide levels were established. -
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Established by United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation. The IPCC is a collaborative body comprising over 2,000 climate scientists worldwide. Its main activity is to provide at regular intervals and assessment of the state of knowledge and climate change. -
First IPCC Report
First IPCC report on climate change.The Report confirmed ‘that climate change was a reality and was supported by scientific data.’ -
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Rio Earth Summit was signed by 150 for government. The objective of the convention is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations. The governments or annex I nations were voluntarily committed to developing national strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
NAPA (a National Programme of Action) Is one form of reporting proposed by the UNFCCC for LEDCs to decide how to meet their most urgent needs to adapt to climate change. -
Second IPCC Report
First UNFCCC conference. Government recognised that voluntary commitments were in adequate and work started to draft a protocol for adoption at the third conference of parties in 1997. Second IPCC report concludes that ‘the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on the global climate.’ -
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto protocol was signed by 160 nations at the third UNFCC conference. The protocol calls for the first ever legally binding commitment to reduce carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2% below 1990 levels before 2012. The US signed but has not ratified the protocol. -
Third IPCC Report
The third IPCC report states that ‘anthropogenic emissions will raise global mean temperature by 5.8°C by 2050.‘ -
The Kyoto protocol is still ineffective
For the coyote protocol to be effective at least 55 countries have to ratify and there must be enough annex I countries which together are accountable for more than 55% of the emissions according to you in 1990 levels however the percentage of annex I countries is only 37.5% -
Kyoto Treaty
The Cairo to treaty goes into fact, signed by major industrial nations except US. Work to retard emissions accelerates in Japan, Western Europe, US regional governments and corporations. -
Fourth IPCC Report
The fourth IPCC report once that serious effects of warming has become evident; cost of reducing emissions would be far less than damage they will cause. December 2007 UN climate conference in Bali agreed on a ‘Bali Road Map’ to have a global treaty by end. -
Global Economic Crisis
Reduction in international will to negotiate and carbon emissions reductions as national economic’s for this for results in lower GHG emissions from industry. -
China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
China overtook the USA as the country with the largest greenhouse gas emissions. 192 governments at the Copenhagen UN climate summit. -
400 ppm CO2 in Atmosphere
Milestone of 400 ppm carbon dioxide in atmosphere reached. Apparent pause in warming explained as oceans have continued to warm. -
Fifth IPCC Report
The fifth IPCC report was the strongest warning yet that global warming is happening, human activities are mostly causing it through burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
