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United Nations conference on climate change takes place in Montreal, Canada
United Nations conference on climate change takes place in Montreal, Canada Brussels, 30th November 2005: This week, Montreal (Canada)
has witnessed the opening of the biggest meeting on climate change
since the Kyoto Conference in 1997. The United Nations (UN) Climate
Change conference in Montreal follows the entry into force of the
Kyoto protocol earlier this year. Over 8000 participants from industrialised
countries and developing nations will try to define the technical
means to achieve the emission targets for 2012 and beyond. For non-specialists in need of background information on scientific aspects of climate change, GreenFacts is pleased to provide a reader-friendly summary of the Third Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on www.greenfacts.org/studies/climate_change. The summary of this leading scientific consensus document is also available in French, German, and Spanish. GreenFacts asbl is an independent non-profit organization based in Brussels. It publishes, www.greenfacts.org, faithful summaries of authoritative scientific consensus documents on environment and health matters, peer-reviewed by independent experts. It provides non-specialists with a one-stop information source of scientific information on many environment and health issues, such as: air pollution, aspartame, arsenic, boron, climate change, dioxins, ecosystem change, endocrine disruptors, fluoride, genetically modified crops, mercury, power lines, repiratory diseases, tobacco, water disinfectants.
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