Dossier Climate change: FAQs
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General questions on climate change
- 1.What is climate and how does it differ from weather?
- 2.What is climate change?
- 3.What is the “greenhouse effect” and how does it affect climate?
- 4.What causes climate change?
- 5.What are the impacts of climate change?
- 6.Will countries with an emission target meet their Kyoto target?
General questions on climate policy
- 7.What is the Kyoto Protocol?
- 8.What's the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?
- 9.Will countries with an emission target meet their Kyoto target?
- 10.Which are the top-20 CO2 or GHG emitting countries?
Questions on abrupt climate change
- 11.What is thermohaline circulation?
- 12.What is "abrupt climate change”?
- 13.How can global warming make things cooler?
Questions related to the Conference of the Parties (COP)
- 14.What is at stake in Copenhagen?
- 15.What is the Clean Development Mechanism?
- 16.What is the EU’s proposal for emission reduction targets by 2020?
- 17.Which targets have countries proposed for themselves for 2020?
- 18.Why did Dutch and European climate policymakers choose the long-term target of limiting climate change to a maximum, average global temperature increase of 2 degree Celsius?
- 19.What is the Adaptation Fund?
- 20.What is REDD?
