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The impact of trade opening on climate change

The past half century has been marked by an unprecedented expansion of international trade. Trade economists have developed a conceptual framework for examining how trade opening can affect the environment. (World Bank, 2008)

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/climate_impact_e.htm

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Human impact of climate change highlighted through Google Earth

Google Earth users around the world can now see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century.

http://www.research4development.info/news.asp?articleID=50230

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Climate Change 2007 (AR4) - The Synthesis Report

This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) (IPCC, 2007).

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm

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Climate Change 2007 (AR4): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

This is the 2nd part of the 4th assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm

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Climate Change 2007 (AR4): Mitigation of Climate Change

This is the report from Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This report published in 2007 focuses on the Mitigation of Climate Change (IPCC, 2007).

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.htm

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Climate Change 2007 (AR4): The Physical Science Basis

This is the first installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 4th Assessment report on climate change, released at the start of 2007 (IPCC, 2007).

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

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Climate Change 2007 (AR4): The Synthesis Report- Summary for Policy Makers

The summary for policy makers of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report on climate change. 'The Synthesis Report' is the final part of the 'Climate Change 2007' report from the IPCC (IPCC, 16 November 2007).

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf

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Kyoto Protocol

Website for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.

http://unfccc.int/cop4/kp/kp.html

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Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

This is the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change. The first half of the Review focuses on the impacts and risks arising from uncontrolled climate change, and on the costs and opportunities associated with action to tackle it. The Review finds that all countries will be affected by climate change, but it is the poorest countries that will suffer earliest and most. Unabated climate change risks raising average temperatures by over 5°C from pre-industrial levels. Such changes would transform the physical geography of our planet, as well as the human geography - how and where we live our lives. Tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy; ignoring it will ultimately undermine economic growth. The second half of the Review examines the national and international policy challenges of moving to a low-carbon global economy. (Sir Nicholas Stern, HM Treasury, 30 October 2006)

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm

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Climate Change 2001 (AR3): The Scientific Basis

The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) builds upon past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of research on climate change. Many hundreds of scientists from many countries participated in its preparation and review. Download Summaries for Policymakers (SPM) and Technical Summaries (TS) in PDF.

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UNEP and WMO. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out research nor does it monitor climate related data or other relevant parameters. It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature.

http://www.ipcc.ch/

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