ABSTRACT
The Nobel prize for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ to Al Gore and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) has brought climate change into the limelight and the IPCC report has put an urgency into dealing with the climate change impacts right away. The UN has played an important role in supporting the most advanced science on climate change. Through the IPCC, it has brought the phenomenon’s likely impacts and probable costs to the attention of governments and the
general public. ‘Unequivocal’ is the word it now uses to describe the links between human activities — from the burning of fossil fuels to clearcutting of forests — and climate change. Climate change literature suggests that even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped today, some level of climate change is inevitable.
