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From:Nature (Vol. 532, Issue 7599) Peer-ReviewedThe Paris Agreement for tackling climate change opens for governments to sign this week, four months after it was agreed. The momentum created by the deal, described as a multilateral political triumph, looks set to...
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From:Science (Vol. 292, Issue 5520) Peer-ReviewedThe work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the consensus of the international scientific community on climate change science. We recognize the IPCC as the world's most reliable source of...
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From:Policy Review (Issue 165) Peer-ReviewedGOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WORLDWIDE are trying to put the best face on the 2010 United Nations climate change negotiations in Cancun, especially after 2009's debacle in Copenhagen. But the talks produced little real progress...
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From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7774) Peer-ReviewedNature joins more than 250 media outlets in Covering Climate Now, a unique collaboration to focus attention on the need for urgent action. Nature joins more than 250 media outlets in Covering Climate Now a unique...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article was finalised prior to the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties ('COP15') under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ('UNFCCC'), held in December 2009. At the COP15, parties failed to...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe making of policy about climate change requires decisions under uncertainty. It shares this reality with many areas of policy and with the judges' application of the law to practical decisions that must be made day...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGlobal warming is a stealth issue in U.S. foreign policy. Even as the effects of mounting carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) begin to make themselves felt, and huge multinationals such as General Electric and Shell announce...
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From:Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Although black carbon, commonly known as soot, is a leading contributor to global warming, second only perhaps to carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]), (1) it has not received adequate attention on the...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 104, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol (1) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2) (UNFCCC or Framework Convention) in 2005, attention has focused on what to do after 2012, when the...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed'Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.' St Augustine, Confessions, Book VIII, Chapter VII I INTRODUCTION The United Nations Climate Change Meeting that took place at Bella Centre, Copenhagen from 7...
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From:Nature (Vol. 479, Issue 7374) Peer-ReviewedThere's a storm brewing in South Africa, although not the kind that climate scientists warned of last week in a report linking extreme weather to global warming (see http://dx.doi. org/10.1038/nature.2011.9397; 2011)....
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From:Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe are all in the same boat and we must learn to live responsibly - or we will sink together. --Muhammad Yunus (1) I. INTRODUCTION Climate change and the more recent threats to the natural life-support systems...
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From:Chemical EngineeringPeer-ReviewedAt the time of this writing, COP26 is underway in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 is the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since the start of the first COP in 1995,...
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From:The Energy Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Kyoto agreement as originally drafted sought to mitigate anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions through policy measures by most industrialized countries. It now seems likely that the agreement will be ratified and...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION In December 2009, State Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1) ('UNFCCC') and the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2)...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Kyoto Protocol's targets are impeding our efforts to deal with climate change. The emissions targets of the Kyoto Protocol are dead, and the international community should let them rest in peace. Diplomatic...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"For the people of low-lying island states of the world ... and certainly of my small island country of Tuvalu in the Pacific, this is no longer a debatable argument. The impacts of global warming on our islands are...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 155, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe question of what actions on climate change make sense in the short term--raised in the quotes above--remains largely unanswered. Until we better organize the climate science and technology enterprise to focus on...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 49, Issue 7)49-3883 QC903 MARC Understanding Earth's deep past: lessons for our climate future, by National Research Council of The National Academies. National Academies Press, 2011. 194p bibl ISBN 9780309209151 pbk,...
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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis research is an examination of the role of organized interests in international climate change policy formation. Systematic survey results are used to demonstrate that organized interests actually engage in the same...