ABSTRACT
Most scientists and politicians agree that climate change is happening. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to assess scientific, technical, and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation. Climate change has resulted in large-scale environmental hazards to human health, such as extreme weather, ozone depletion, increased danger of wildfires, loss of biodiversity, stresses to food-producing systems, and the global spread of infectious diseases. Climate change has been severely impacting humans, animals, and the environment. A key conference was the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which established the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, followed by the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which set some specific guidelines for greenhouse gases.
