Understanding climate change: a beginner's guide to the UN Framework Convention

  Available online: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/beginner_en.pdf

Introduction: A giant asteroid could hit the earth! Something else could happen! The global temperature could rise! Wake up! The 1990s have been a time of international soul- searching about the environment. What are we doing to our planet? More and more, we are realising that the Industrial Revolution has changed forever the relationship between humanity and nature. There is real concern that by the middle or the end of the next century human activities will have changed the basic conditions that have allowed life to thrive on earth.

Language(s): English; Other Languages: French, Spanish

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