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The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.. A 2007 study by Gupta et al. assessed the literature on climate change policy, which showed no authoritative assessments of the UNFCCC or its Protocol that assert these agreements have, or will, succeed in fully solving the climate problem. [1]
According to a 2015 journal article based on a literature review of thousands of articles related to over two hundred studies covering the period from 1980 to 2014, there was an increase in public awareness of climate change in the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a period of growing concern— mixed with the rise of conflicting positions—in the later 1990s and early 2000s.
In its Statement at the Twelfth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change presented on 15 November 2006, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirms the need to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system". The WMO concurs that "scientific assessments have ...
Climate change policies may lead to costs that are relevant to the article 2. [107] For example, more stringent policies to control GHG emissions may reduce the risk of more severe climate change, but may also be more expensive to implement. [109] [110] [111]
11 March: a review article published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change concluded that warming from non-CO 2 agents (especially CH 4 and N 2 O) in the Amazon basin largely offsets—and most likely exceeds—the climate change mitigating effect of the region's CO 2 uptake. [45]
To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for ...
The Gateway Belief Model, which models the thought that communicating scientific consensus will impact belief in climate change and produce support for action. Most climate communication and research within the field is concerned with (1) the mechanisms related to the public's understanding/awareness of and perception of climate change which are intertwined with (2) personal cultural values ...
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