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	Downloadable Online Resources Strategies / Plans EU action against climate change - Leading global action to 2020 and beyond European Commission The world has warmed by an average of 0.76º Celsius since pre-industrial times and the temperature rise is accelerating, according to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1. Sea levels rose almost twice as fast between 1993 and 2003 as during the previous three decades. Man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are causing these changes. Click to download Combating climate change - The EU leads the way European Commission The international consensus is growing that the planet is facing irreversible climate change unless action is taken quickly. The EU has already formulated a clear response in the shape of an integrated energy and climate change policy, a commitment to cut emissions of ‘greenhouse’ gases by at least 20 % by 2020, and a promise to take the lead in international negotiations to adopt even more ambitious targets. Click to download Island Limits - A Material Flow Analysis and Ecological Footprint Analysis of Ireland EPA It could be argued that the ‘sustainable development’ debate began with the realisation that increasing economic growth and the related consumption of resources could not be sustained, and that the world was running up against environmental limits in terms of the carrying capacity of the planet Click to download Climate Change Policy ENFO Past and present emissions have already committed the earth to at least some degree of climate change over the course of the 21st century. Some impacts are already under way, others are committed, yet only beginning to arrive. Click to download EU action against climate change - Leading global action to 2020 and beyond European Commission Brochure outlining the EU’s approach to tackling climate change. Click to download Climate Solutions: WWF's Vision for 2050 WWF Climate Solutions: WWF’s Vision for 2050, a report by the global conservation organization, shows that the world has more than enough sustainable energy and technology to curb climate change, but key decisions need to be made now. Click to download Climate Change - Implementation of the Global Climate Observing System in Ireland Environmental Protection Agency In 1992 Ireland was one of the over 180 signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Systematic, high-quality observations for the atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial environments are required to improve understanding of climate characteristics and assist in understanding the consequences of climate change. To support issues related to systematic observations, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Secretariat was established within the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. Click to download Ireland's National Allocation Plan for Emission Trading 2008-2012 Environmental Protection Agency Ireland's National Allocation Plan for Emission Trading 2008-2012, Final Allocation Decision 4 March 2008. Click to download Irish Climate-Change Policy from Kyoto to the Carbon Tax: a Two-level Game Analysis of the Interplay of Knowledge and Power By Oisín Coghlan Centre for International Studies, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University Click to download Implementation of the National Climate Change Strategy Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Climate change is recognised as the most significant and threatening global environmental problem. This is being caused by emissions of greenhouse gases that occur as a result of some human actions. The international community responded to this problem at a United Nations conference in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. At that conference, the industrialised world agreed to start reducing these emissions through legally binding targets. Ireland’s target is to limit emissions to 13% above 1990 levels over the five year period 2008 to 2012, within an overall EU target to reduce emissions by 8% in the same timeframe. Click to download Ireland’s Pathway to Kyoto Compliance Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Almost six years ago, the Government’s National Climate Change Strategy set out the framework for Ireland’s response to global warming. The concept of partnership was central to the Strategy. At the domestic level, it identified necessary changes right across society. Every sector of the economy, and each of us as individuals, had a part to play. Click to download Ireland - National Climate Change Strategy 2007 - 2012 Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government There is now a scientific consensus that global warming is happening, that it is directly related to man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and that we have little time remaining to stabilise and reduce these emissions if we are to avoid devastating impacts on our planet. Click to download Back to list of content
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