The Climate Change 2001 volumes of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive assessment of climate change since its second report, Climate Change 1995. This Synthesis Report gives a comprehensive summary of the main points of the three separate volumes of the Report: The Scientific Basis; Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Mitigation.
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"[T]he authors present convincing data, colorful schematics and figures, and working group summaries that explain the science of climate change, summarize impact as well as vulnerabilities, and finally, present mitigation strategies. This is a slick report that condenses global strategies intended to avoid loss of biodiversity while retaining sustainable production of key foods.... Recommended." Choice
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The Climate Change 2001 volumes of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive assessment of climate change since its second report, Climate Change 1995. This Synthesis Report gives a comprehensive summary of the main points of the three separate volumes of the Report: The Scientific Basis; Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Mitigation. This synthesis will be particularly valuable for students and researchers who require a summary of the main issues in climate change, and will form a standard reference for policy decisions in governments and industry the world over for many years to come.
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In accordance with a decision taken at its Thirteenth Session (Maldives, 22 and 25-28 September 1997) and other subsequent decisions, the IPCC decided: To include a Synthesis Report as part of its Third Assessment Report. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
avoided climate change, climate policy interventions, targeted revenue recycling, additional climate initiatives, medium confidence, explicitly assume implementation, projected oil revenues, climate stimuli, known technological options, more diverse technological change, exceeding direct costs, mitigative capacity, continuously increasing global population, interacting climate, cumulative carbon emissions, including climate variability, indirect greenhouse gases, negative cost options, stabilization scenarios, same global population, mitigation vary, climate change mitigation policies, including improved equity, extreme climate phenomena, net direct costs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Synthesis Report, Technical Summary, Working Group, Third Assessment Report, Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand, Special Report, North America, Latin America, Projections of Future Changes, Intergovernmental Panel, Montreal Protocol, Southern Hemisphere, United Nations Framework Convention, West Antarctic, Year Figure, Second Assessment Report, Southern Oscillation, Page Cross-Reference, South America, United States, Hadley Centre, Review Editors, United Kingdom, Antarctic Peninsula New!
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In accordance with a decision taken at its Thirteenth Session (Maldives, 22 and 25-28 September 1997) and other subsequent decisions, the IPCC decided: To include a Synthesis Report as part of its Third Assessment Report. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
avoided climate change, climate policy interventions, targeted revenue recycling, additional climate initiatives, medium confidence, explicitly assume implementation, projected oil revenues, climate stimuli, known technological options, more diverse technological change, exceeding direct costs, mitigative capacity, continuously increasing global population, interacting climate, cumulative carbon emissions, including climate variability, indirect greenhouse gases, negative cost options, stabilization scenarios, same global population, mitigation vary, climate change mitigation policies, including improved equity, extreme climate phenomena, net direct costs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Synthesis Report, Technical Summary, Working Group, Third Assessment Report, Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand, Special Report, North America, Latin America, Projections of Future Changes, Intergovernmental Panel, Montreal Protocol, Southern Hemisphere, United Nations Framework Convention, West Antarctic, Year Figure, Second Assessment Report, Southern Oscillation, Page Cross-Reference, South America, United States, Hadley Centre, Review Editors, United Kingdom, Antarctic Peninsula New!
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- Climate Change: From Science to Sustainability (Environmental Web) by Stephen Peake on page 222, page 238, and Back Matter
- Climate Change (Groundwork Guides) by Shelley Tanaka on page 306, and Back Matter
- Special Report (Harlequin Romantic Suspense) by Merline Lovelace on page 294, and Back Matter
- Buenos Aires (Spanish Edition) by Ernestina Herrera de Noble in Back Matter
- The Carbon Cycle by T. M. L. Wigley in Back Matter
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- Agenda for the Nation by Henry J. Aaron on page 285, and page 325
- A Grand Strategy for America (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Robert J. Art in Back Matter
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