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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks

March 2004
F.N. Tubiello, M. Salvatore, R.D. Cóndor Golec, A. Ferrara, S. Rossi, R. Biancalani, S. Federici, H. Jacobs, A. Flammini
FAO
This report discusses new knowledge on anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) activities made available through the new FAOSTAT Emission database.Read More →

Introduction: An Architecture for Climate Protection

January 2002
Kevin A. Baumert, Nancy Kete
Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate
This chapter describes the issue of climate change and addressing it and probes the key architectural elements that could collectively constitute an international climate protection architecture. Read More →

Responsibility for Past and Future Global Warming: Time Horizon and Non-Linearities in the Climate System

January 2002
M.G.J. den Elzen, M. Schaeffer, B. Eickhout
Dutch Ministry of Environment
This report suggests a new ‘non-linear’, but transparent, approach for attributing CO2 concentrations, which would generally reduce Annex-I contributions. Read More →

The Brazilian Proposal on Relative Responsibility for Global Warming

January 2002
Emilio L. La Rovere, Laura Valente de Macedo, Kevin A. Baumert
Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate
This chapter examines the policy implications and future potential of the Brazilian Proposal for establishing limitations on greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

May 1992
United Nations
This document outlines the objectives of the 1992 UNFCCC. Read More →

Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?

August 1975
Wallace S. Broecker
Science
This article presents an early (mid-1970s) perspective that the planet is on the brink of a prolonged period of global warming, and that complacency is not an option. Read More →

Restoring the Quality of Our Environment

November 1965
President's Science Advisory Committee
The White House
This book is designed to prompt appropriate Departments and Agencies to consider the problems and recommendations regarding emissions that the book reports on. Read More →

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