Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change. Summary from a British High Commission News Release
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Summary from a British High Commission News Release
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has
recently published a new book titled Avoiding Dangerous Climate
Change. The book consolidates the scientific findings of the so
called Exeter conference and gives an account of the most recent
developments on critical thresholds and key vulnerabilities of the
climate system, impacts on human and natural systems, emission
pathways and technological options of meeting different
stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The book focuses on three crucial questions:
For different levels of climate change what are the key impacts,
for different regions and sectors, and for the world as a
whole?
What would such levels of climate change imply in terms of
greenhouse gas stabilisation concentrations and emission pathways
required to achieve such levels?
What technological options are there for achieving stabilisation of
greenhouse gases at different stabilisation concentrations in the
atmosphere, taking into account costs and uncertainties?
Full text of the book in PDF format available at:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/internat/pdf/avoid-dangercc.pdf
Executive summary available at:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/internat/pdf/avoid-dangercc-execsumm.pdf
The book can also be ordered on line from the Cambridge University
Press website at:
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521864712
