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Climate change was officially recognised as a serious problem needing an international response
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Collaborative body formed comprising of over 2000 climate scientists.
Main activity is to provide at regular intervals an assessment of the state of knowledge on climate change -
Report confirmed that climate change was a reality and was supported by scientific data
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Governments were voluntarily committed to developing national strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2000
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Governments realised that voluntary commitments were inadequate and work started to draft a protocol for adoption and the third conference for parties of parties in 1997
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Concludes that the balance of evidence suggests a descernible human influence on the global climate
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Protocol calls for the first ever legally binding commitments to reduce carbon dioxide and other green house gasses
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States that antropogrnic emissions will raise temperature by 5.8 degrees Celsius by 2050
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To be affective atleast 55 countries have to raitify and there must be enough annex 1 countries which together are accountable for more than 55% of the emissions
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Work to retard emissions accelerates in Japan, Western Europe, US regional governments and corporations.
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Warns that serious effects of warming have become evident
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Reduction in international will to negotiate on carbon emissions reductions as national economies fall but this fall results in lower GHG emissions from industry
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Pause in warning explained as oceans have continued to warm
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Has the strongest warning yet that global warning is happening