07-02-2013, 09:33 AM
Climate Change & Introduction to CDM
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What is Climate Change / Anthropogenic Climate Change?
Warm near the equator and cold at the poles, our planet is able to support a variety of living things because of its diverse regional climates.
The average of all these regions makes up Earth's global climate.
Rapid warming like we see today is unusual
Climate is warming as a result of the addition of heat-trapping greenhouse gases as a result of human activities.
Impacts of Climate Change
Increasing water stress for many countries
Millions of people face severe water shortages
Increase in the number and severity of glacial melt-related floods, slope destabilization followed by decrease in river flows as glaciers disappear
Reduction in water quality in some areas due to an increase in floods and droughts.
Higher warming in all seasons
Drier subtropical regions may become warmer than the moister tropics.
Decrease in annual rainfall
Extreme Events
Increase in extreme rainfall and winds associated with tropical cyclones in East, Southeast and South Asia;
Intense rainfall events causing landslides and severe floods;
Heat waves/hot spells in summer of longer duration, more intense and more frequent, particularly in East Asia.
Droughts during the summer months
Increase in intensity of tropical cyclones
Heat waves, with particularly major effects in megacities due to heat island effects
Kyoto Protocol
Inclusion among the cuts of net changes in greenhouse gas emissions from sources and removals by sinks resulting from direct human induced land use change and forestry activities, limited to afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation since 1990, measured as verifiable changes in stocks.
The commitment period will be 2008 to 2012.
Each party included in Annex I shall by 2005 have made demonstrable progress in achieving its commitments made in the protocol.