TITLE

Report Lights Fires Around the World On Need To Slow Climate Change

AUTHOR(S)

Reina, Peter

PUB. DATE

February 2007

SOURCE

ENR: Engineering News-Record;2/12/2007, Vol. 258 Issue 6, p18

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article states that there is a 90% certainty that human use of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change, according to a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC's findings, based largely on peer-reviewed reports by hundreds of scientists around the globe, immediately prompted calls for high-level talks to extend the historic greenhouse-gas-emission-cutting Kyoto Protocol as it marks its second anniversary on February 16, 2007.

ACCESSION #

24190039

Tags: FOSSIL fuels -- Environmental aspects;  INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change;  UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11;  CLIMATIC changes -- International cooperation;  GLOBAL warming -- International cooperation

 

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