 | Dinah Shelton, Alexandre Charles Kiss - 2005 - 160 pages
...Climate Change is concemed with greenhouse warming. It defines climate change as a modification of the climate which is attributed directly or indirectly...variability observed over comparable time periods. The stated objective is to stabilize the concentrations of all greenhouse gases - not only carbon dioxide... | |
 | Christian Schauer - 2005 - 688 pages
...Convention refers to a change which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability. • The average air temperature of the globe is projected to be 1.4-5.8 °C higher in 2100 than in... | |
 | Edward A. Page - 2007 - 218 pages
...Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to this, climate change refers to changes in the atmosphere that are 'attributed directly or indirectly to human activity...variability observed over comparable time periods' (United Nations (Cm 2833), 1995, p. 4). 23. A widely cited article in December 2004's edition of Science... | |
 | Paul Hawken - 2007 - 364 pages
...exacerbated by human activity and is defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as "a change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods." global warming, science, biodiversity, carbon dioxide, pollution, emissions trading, stabilization,... | |
 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 2007 - 33 pages
...composition of the atmosphere or in land use. Note that UNFCCC, in its Article 1, defines "climate change" as "a change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods". The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction between "climate change" attributable to human activities altering... | |
 | Teri, TERI Project Team - 2006 - 570 pages
...United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in its Article 1, defines climate change as 'a change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods'. 5 Most of the ozone resides in the stratosphere (10-40 km above ground level), where it shields the... | |
 | International Institute of Refrigeration - 2007 - 424 pages
...composition of the global atmosphere over a given time period. climate change attributed to human activity A change of climate, which is attributed directly...alters the composition of the global atmosphere and that is in addition to natural climate variability over a comparable time period. Conference of the... | |
 | Philip J. J. Drost - 2008 - 625 pages
...managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | Martin L. Parry - 2007 - 71 pages
...United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which defines 'climate change' as: 'a change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods'. See also climate variability. Climate change commitment Due to the thermal inertia of the ocean and... | |
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Climate change' means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. 
