| Gregory Lawrence Rose, United Nations Environment Programme - 2007 - 148 pages
...Change (UNFCCC) entered into force on 21 March 1994. It aims to achieve stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.219 Such a stabilisation level should be achieved 'within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems... | |
| Anthony Seldon - 2007 - 19 pages
...signed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, with the express aim of 'the stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'.2 In responding to this new dynamic, the Conservative government set the UK the target of returning... | |
| Jonathan Robinson - 2007 - 928 pages
...1992. 6 The ultimate objective of the Convention is to achieve the 'stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.'7 The Convention provides that such a level 'should be achieved within a time frame sufficient... | |
| Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - 2007 - 188 pages
...on Climate Change in December 1997. lts long run objective is the "stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".3 2.2.3 Under the Protocol, "Annex l" signatories (a number of industrialised countries including... | |
| Loren R. Cass - 2012 - 282 pages
...FCCC, the primary objective of the convention is to "achieve . . . stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."37 Article 4.2 d states that at the first Conference of the Parties (COP 1) the parties to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy - 2007 - 138 pages
...concentrations of GHGs. The UNFCCC commitment further specifies that concentrations should be stabilized "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."4 While there is not yet a global consensus on the concentration at which this would occur,... | |
| Mike Tidwell - 2006 - 210 pages
...all people, as soon as possible. 62 THE RAVAGING TIDE result in a "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic" — manmade — "interference with the climate system." Five years later, sorting out the nuts and... | |
| Philip J. J. Drost - 2008 - 625 pages
...achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food... | |
| Mohamed Gad-el-Hak - 2008 - 569 pages
...signed in 1992. Its ultimate objective was to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous...the climate system. Such a level should be achieved in a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that... | |
| David P. Gushee - 2008 - 358 pages
...Change, which was signed by all of the world's countries. The agreed goal was stabilization of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would...anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The next step in the process was the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which set a cap on GHG emissions from thirty-eight... | |
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