Day of action on climate change

Greenpeace briefing: Bali, the process and the key players

December 02, 2007

What does Greenpeace expect out of the Bali meeting? What will be the big issues on the table? Who are the main players? What about the big developing countries? Don’t they have to do more? So why won’t voluntary agreements work?

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Greenpeace briefing: Kyoto and the Bali Mandate: what the world needs to do to combat climate change

November 22, 2007

As the next international meeting on the Kyoto Protocol approaches (Bali, December 3-14, 2007), this briefing sets out Greenpeace's detailed demands on what Governments need to agree - in order to keep global temperatures below two degrees centigrade.

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IPCC: Synthesis Report briefing

November 02, 2007

The final meeting of the IPCC for 2007 as part of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) will be in Valencia, Spain, November 12-17. This briefing summarises the outcome of the first three meetings of the AR4 and outlines the importance of the final, Synthesis Report, to be agreed in Valencia.

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What is the IPCC

November 02, 2007

The UN's climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, for its "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." This briefing sets out how the IPCC works.

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Greenpeace Briefing: China - taking action on climate change

September 24, 2007

What China is doing in response to climate change?

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Greenpeace Briefing: Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol, Sept 07

September 24, 2007

The destruction of the world’s forests is one of the main causes of climate change, second only to the energy sector. Tropical forests contain up to 40 percent of the world's terrestrial carbon and play a powerful role in mitigating the growing instability of the climate. The destruction of forests accounts for approximately one-fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenpeace guide to Kyoto, Bali, APEC, the G8 and Major Emitters meeting

September 24, 2007

A guide to major political meetings of 2007 affecting governments' response to climate change. Covers: The Kyoto process and UNFCCC; Bali meeting; APEC; UN High Level meeting; and Bush's Big Emitters meeting.

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