TY - BOOK ID - 2720509 TI - International environmental agreements on climate change PY - 1999 VL - 13 SN - 0792355156 9048151554 9401591695 9780792355151 PB - Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Droit de l'environnement KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental law KW - Environmental protection--Law and legislation KW - Environnement [Droit de l' ] KW - Milieurecht KW - Climatic changes KW - Environmental law, International KW - International cooperation KW - Environmental law, International. KW - International cooperation. KW - Environmental economics. KW - Climate change. KW - Environmental management. KW - Game theory. KW - Ecology . KW - Environmental Economics. KW - Climate Change. KW - Environmental Management. KW - Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. KW - Ecology. KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Games, Theory of KW - Theory of games KW - Mathematical models KW - Mathematics KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Management KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Economics KW - Environmental quality KW - Ecology KW - Environmental aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Climatic changes - International cooperation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2720509 AB - Climate change is one of the major environmental concern of many countries in the world. Negotiations to control potential climate changes have been taking place, from Rio to Kyoto, for the last five years. There is a widespread consciousness that the risk of incurring in relevant economic and environmental losses due to climate change is high. Scientific analyses have become more and more precise on the likely impacts of climate change. According to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, current trends in greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions may indeed cause the average global temperature to increase by 1-3. 5 °C over the next 100 years. As a result, sea levels are expected to rise by 15 to 95 em and climate zones to shift towards the poles by 150 to 550 km in mid latitudes. In order to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, the IPCC report concludes that a stabilization of atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide - one of the major GHGs - at 550 parts per million by volume (ppmv) is recommended. This would imply a reduction of global emissions of about 50 per cent with respect to current levels. In this context, countries are negotiating to achieve a world-wide agreement on GHGs emissions control in order to stabilize climate changes. Despite the agreement on targets achieved in Kyoto, many issues still remain unresolved. ER -