Climate change strategy (2011-2016)
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2011
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Climate change is contemporarily the most important global environmental, social and economic challenge, predicted to have severe impacts on a planetary scale. The adverse impacts of climate change on environment, human health, food security, human settlements, economic activities, natural resources, and physical infrastructure are already noticeable world-wide. Global warming is the most stricking indication of the pronounced Climate Change issue. It is the most direct effect of the increased trapping of heat radiation.
Climate science has a firm basis in physics and is supported by a wealth of evidence from real world observations. The Reports of IPCC represent the best consensus to-date on the Climate Change agenda. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the IPCC, completed in November 2007, finds with more than 90% probability that human action is implicated in today’s climate change, and presents the already observed and projected impacts it will give rise to. It is certain that increased greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place since the industrial revolution.
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East African Community. (2011). Climate change strategy (2011-2016). EAC Secretariat