Confronting the Climate Change issue

Agenda 21

The main outcome of the Conference on Environment and Development, the UN is the most comprehensive action plans for the 90's and beyond, adopted by the international community. Represents a set of integrated strategies and detailed programs to stop and reverse the effects of environmental degradation and promote sustainable and sound development in all countries.

Rio Declaration

Proclamation by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development United Nations, held in Rio de Janeiro, June 1992. Reaffirms and builds on the statement of the Conference on the Human Environment United Nations in 1972. The goal of the statement is to establish cooperation between member states to reach agreements on the laws and principles that promote sustainable development. The statement compares various areas related to global change, providing a policy context facing global change, includes: natural resources, environmental impacts of development, ecosystem protection, sharing scientific ideas, internalization of environmental costs, etc.

Framework Convention on Climate Change

Signed by 165 states, commits its signatories to the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at levels that prevent anthropogenic interference with the climate system. " The convention establishes interim goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2000. The convention establishes a protocol for nations to make an inventory of emissions and to follow your progress. Also faces the issue of financing and technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries.

The Second Assessment Report of IPCC

IPPC (International Panel on Climate Control) is an international body, which consists of delegates and intergovernmental science, which since 1988 are evaluating global warming. His last evaluation was more "Climate Change 1995", which provides the basis for the Geneva meeting and the next meeting in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, which limit human emissions of CO2. Synthesis of the Second Assessment provides:

"During the last decades, have become very apparent two important factors in the relationship between humans and the global climate. First, human activities including burning fossil fuels, changes in land use and agriculture, are increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases (which tend to increase the air temperature) and in some regions, aerosols (which tend to cool the atmosphere). These changes, together, are projected to climate change along with regional and global climate-related parameters, such as temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and sea level. Second, some communities have become more vulnerable to risks such as storms, floods and droughts as a result of increased population density in risky areas such as watershed rivers and coastal plains. serious changes have been identified as increasing in some areas, the incidence of high-temperature events, floods, etc., increased pests, changes in the composition, structure and ecological functioning, including primary productivity." (Pace Energy Project, 1997)

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