Climate change

Our atmosphere is a natural layer of heat-trapping gasses, that enables and supports life on earth. Human activity has altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere, through the buildup of greenhouse gasses (GHG). These gasses prevent the earth’s excess heat from excaping. As a result the earth is warming.

(Source: http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/un/syreng/spm.pdf)

Scientific evidence demonstrates that global warming will result in:

• more heat waves and droughts;
• more extreme weather patterns, bringing floods and destruction;
• an increase in heat related illnesses and deaths;
• an increase in insect and rodent spread infectious diseases.

To combat global warming, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for a large number of countries in the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997.