Addressing Climate Change Through Sustainable Development
has long suffered from climatic disasters throughout its history and will be more vulnerable to climate change. The key reason lies in the fact that the physical environment is highly fragile. Ever-increasing human population, physical resources, and infrastructure are exposed to climate risks, along with effects from China’s development process. Sustainable development has been taken [...]
Reducing Poverty While Cutting Carbon Emissions
How many Indonesians have ever read or heard about the issue of global warming and climate change?
According to an ACNielsen Omnibus survey in six Indonesian cities in February 2007, 70 percent of the 1,700 people surveyed said they had not read or heard anything about the issue of global warming. Only 28 percent [...]
International Youth: Fired Up About Climate Change
most important meeting of the 21st century is happening this December in Copenhagen, yet those who have the most to gain, or lose, are left on the sidelines. Global warming will define this century, just as the struggle between totalitarianism and democracy defined the last one. The decisions that senior officials make today will shape [...]
FOCUS ON: Climate Change Perspectives
Why Should Young People Inherit a World where climate change increasingly compromises?
Human activity-generated emissions have reversed an Arctic cooling trend, leading to global warming unmatched for 2,000 years, world leaders are negotiating an action framework to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This international agreement, aimed at stabilizing the greenhouse gas emissions which accelerate global warming, will [...]
Climate Change Today
Carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities is causing changes in Earth’s surface temperature, rainfall and sea level that are measurable now, new research says, and that will continue for the next thousand years.
Direct observations of oceans, land surfaces, the atmosphere and glaciers have convinced scientists that Earth’s climate is warming and human [...]
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