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Scientific data on climate change
- http://www.ipcc.ch
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) includes more than 2,500 researchers involved in climate change. Its role is to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the risks associated with climate change. It publishes assessment reports at regular intervals that review all aspects of climate change. The fourth and last assessment report to date was completed in the course of 2007.
- http://www.greenfacts.org
GreenFacts is a non-profit-making association under Belgian law whose aim is to make scientific information that is widely recognised within the scientific community available to non-specialists. In the domain of climate change, GreenFacts offers readers three different levels for reading the information: the “summary” level, which succinctly broaches the issues regarding climate change; the “details” level, which examines these issues in depth; and finally, the “source” level, which provides the information contained in the fourth IPCC assessment report.
- http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be
The “Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître” (UCL) carries out research in order to understand the behaviour of the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, biosphere), explain variations in the climate and study the effect of human activity on the climate, especially through the increase in the greenhouse effect.
The institutional aspects regarding climate change
- http://www.unfccc.int
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty resulting from the United Nations General Assembly. Its ultimate aim is to stabilise the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. This treaty was drawn up within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol.
- http://europa.eu
The European Union plays a leading role in the fight against climate change: it is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 % by 2020 compared with 1990.
- In Belgium, authorities at various levels are directly concerned with the fight against climate change. At federal level, information is available on: http://www.climat.be. As regards the Brussels Region, the relevant information is available on: http://www.ibgebim.be/.
For the Flemish Region, information is grouped together on: http://lucht.milieuinfo.be.
For the Walloon Region, information is available on: http://environnement.wallonie.be/
The economic aspects of climate change
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The “Stern Review” published by the United Kingdom government at the end of 2006 aims to integrate the assessment of damage due to climate change and the cost of strategies to address the problem in a global vision. On the basis of an essentially economic analysis, it aims to define the extent of the objective to be reached concerning the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) and the best way to achieve it.
This study is only available in English and may be consulted on: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk.