Low Carbon, High Growth : Latin American Responses to Climate Change - An Overview

de la Torre, Augusto ; Fajnzylber, Pablo ; Nash, John

World Bank

关键词: ADVERSE EFFECTS;    AFFORESTATION;    AGRICULTURAL LAND;    AGRICULTURE;    AIR QUALITY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-7619-5
RP-ID  :  47604

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Based on analysis of recent data on theevolution of global temperatures, snow and ice covers, andsea level rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) has recently declared that "warming ofthe climate system is unequivocal." Global surfacetemperatures, in particular, have increased during the past50 years at twice the speed observed during the first halfof the 20th century. The IPCC has also concluded that with95 percent certainty the main drivers of the observedchanges in the global climate have been anthropogenicincreases in greenhouse gases (GHG). While the greenhouseeffect is a natural process without which the planet wouldprobably be too cold to support life, most of the increasein the overall concentration of GHGs observed since theindustrial revolution has been the result of humanactivities, namely the burning of fossil fuels, changes inland use (conversion of forests into agricultural land), andagriculture (the use of nitrogen fertilizers and live stockrelated methane emissions).