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Introduction: An Architecture for Climate Protection

Published:January 2002

Author(s):Kevin A. Baumert, Nancy Kete

Publisher: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 →

The Brazilian Proposal on Relative Responsibility for Global Warming

Published:January 2002

Author(s):Emilio L. La Rovere, Laura Valente de Macedo, Kevin A. Baumert

Publisher: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 →

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

Published:January 2002

Author(s):M.G.J. den Elzen, M. Schaeffer, B. Eickhout

Publisher: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 →

Optimal Fingerprints for the Detection of Time-Dependent Climate Change

Published:October 1993

Author(s):K. Hasselmann

Publisher:Journal of Climate

This paper details the application of optimal fingerprints to detect time-dependent, multivariable climate change signal in the presence of natural climate variability noise. Read More →

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Published:May 1992

Author(s):United Nations

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

Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment

Published:July 1979

Author(s):Ad Hoc Study Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate

Publisher:National Academy of Sciences

This report assesses the scientific basis for projection of possible future climatic changes resulting from man-made releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Read More →

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

Published:August 1975

Author(s):Wallace S. Broecker

Publisher: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 →