Protect global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gas. Help humanity and natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.
There is now wide scientific consensus that the global climate is being significanly altered by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (C02).
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – first convened by the United Nations in 1988 – brought together thousands of the world’s preeminent atmospheric scientists to assess the peer-reviewed scientific literature on climate change. According to the IPCC, if CO2 emissions continue at the current rate, concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere will more than double by the year 2100 and the global average temperature will rise by anywhere from 1.4 to 5.8 degrees C (2.5 to 10.4 degrees F). Any increase within that range would constitute the largest such rise within the last 10,000 years.
This rise in temperature is a global problem that, if unaddressed, could undermine progress on every aspect of human development and ecosystem protection, including built infrastructure, food production, biodiversity, human health, and the natural systems taht support growing economies.
Effective policies to prevent climate change will set the world on a new course, one characterized by cleaner energy sources, healthier ecosytems and societies, technological innovation, and economic opportunity.
