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The chapter focuses on the role of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in the climate change debate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation, concluded in its 1995 Second Assessment Report that the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate. The climate is changing and it is caused by human activity. Socioeconomic and natural systems are vulnerable to changes in the climate and costly problems could arise. Greenhouse gas emissions and the impact of climate change can successfully be mitigated at relatively low costs. Although sometimes known as global warming there is more to the threat of climate change than rising temperatures. The IPCC reviewed the potential impacts of climate change, it include, sea-level rise, loss of biodiversity, desertification, disappearance of glaciers, flooding and erosion. The main cause of anthropogenic climate change is the emission of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels. Scientific developments and the potentially serious economic and political impacts stimulated action to mitigate climate change by national governments in the 1980s, in the early 1990s governments started international negotiations. |
