63rd Session of UNECE Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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63rd Session of UNECEClimate Change Mitigation
and Adaptation the Work of the ECE Geneva, 31
March 2009

• Panel One Energy Efficiency, Air Pollution and
  GHG Emissions
• Moderator Prof David Simon
• Royal Holloway, University of London

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Distinguishing GEC from natural disasters

• Disasters usually short, one-off extreme events
• Natural vs anthropogenic disasters
• GEC
• Increased frequency and severity of extreme
  events
• Slow-onset, (semi-)permanent changes

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Policy responses to GEC

• Mitigation
• short- to medium term
• reducing vulnerability and impact
• Adaptation
• longer term
• changes to how where we live

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Recent Global Sea Level Rise Estimates
Data Church and White (2006) Scenarios 2100 50
140 cm (Rahmstorf 2007) 55 110 cm (high
end, Delta Committee 2008) Scenarios 2200 150
350 cm (high end, Delta Committee
2008) Scenarios 2300 250 510 cm (German
Advisory Council on Global Change, WBGU, 2006)
WBGU
Delta Comm.
Rahmstorf
Data
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Table 1 Greenhouse gas production
Country Mn tonnes CO2 equivalent, 2000 Mn tonnes CO2 equivalent, 2000  

USA 6,928 Mexico 512
China 4,938 Indonesia 503
Russia 1,915 Australia 491
India 1,884 Ukraine 482
Japan 1,317 Iran 480
Germany 1,009 South Africa 417
Brazil 851 Spain 381
Canada 680 Poland 381
UK 654 Turkey 355
Italy 531 Saudi Arabia 341
S. Korea 521 Argentina 289
France 513 Pakistan 285
Source The Guardian (London) 31 October 2006
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World Carbon Dioxide Emissions by
Region,2003-2030 (Billion Tonnes of Carbon
Dioxide)
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use/Chapter1.htm
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