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Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2019)
Every year a network of scientists, experts and institutions across the world work with UN Environment to identify and analyze emerging issues that will have profound effects on our society, economy and environment. The ...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)
This volume, Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Fisheries, addresses the potential implications for fisheries and societies of the regional impacts of a global warming of the atmosphere. Fisheries case studies were ...
WMO/UNEP Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change: Report of the First Session
(1988)
The first session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was held at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG) from 9 to 11 November 1988. It was formally opened at 10.15 am on 9 November by Mr. J.P. ...
The Greenhouse Gases - UNEP/GEMS Environment Library No. 1
(1987)
The Earth's climate, over the millennia of its existence, has been shaped by the cosmic forces of nature—by the cooling of the Earth's core, variations in the intensity of the Sun, changes in the tilt of our planet. These ...
Country Case Study on Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases in Poland : Final Report
(1995)
In accordance with Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all Parties are required to develop, periodically update, publish and make avail-able to the Conference of the Parties, ...
Climate Change 1995 : The Science of Climate Change - Contribution of WGI to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
The IPCC Scientific Assessment Working Group (WGI) was established in 1988 to assess available information on the science of climate change, in particular that arising from human activities.
Climate Change 1994 : Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and an Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios - Reports of Working Groups I and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forming part of the IPCC Special Report to the first session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
The scope of the present report covers only those factors which cause radiative forcing of climate change, and includes updated values of Global Warming Potentials. The full range of topics related to climate, including ...
Climate Change : Policy Instruments and their Implications - Proceedings of the Tsukuba Workshop of IPCC Working Group III, Tsukuba, Japan, 17-20 January, 1994
(1994)
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Tsukuba Workshop for the IPCC Working Group III held on 17-20 of January, 1994 at Tsukuba, Japan. It reflects the dual objectives of the Workshop.
The first objective is to ...
Equity and Social Considerations Related to Climate Change: Papers Presented at the IPCC Working Group III Workshop on Equity and Social Considerations Related to Climate Change, Nairobi, Kenya, 18-22 July 1994
(1994)
The purpose of the workshop was; to provide a broad base of input to the writing of the draft chapters for IPCC's Second Assessment Report, and to provide an opportunity for policy advisors in several regions of the world ...
Climate Change and Human Health: An Assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme
(1996)
This book covers the subject of climate change to the full extent possible, given current scientific knowledge. It is intended to assist and promote further international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding ...