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• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• Unravelling the climate change story
• Climate Predictions
• Back to the future: the science of building scenarios
• Rising Temperatures
• It’s getting hot in here
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Cooling or heating, a balancing act
• The Carbon Cycle
• Carbon, carbon everywhere
• Greenhous Gas Emissions
• Emissions continue to increase
• Chapter 2
• Trends and Challenges
• Changing weather
• Impact and Vulnerability
• Adaptation and mitigation
• Chapter 3
• The International Answer
• We’re in this together
• The Kyoto Protocol
• A new era starts
• Mitigation and Reduced GDP
• At what cost?
• Appendices
• List of References
• Credit / disclaimer
• Maps & Graphics library
• View resources from Vital Climate Change Graphics Update in the UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics library

Vital Climate Change Graphics Update

Vital Climate Change Graphics was first published in 2000 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal ( Based on the findings of the Second Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it presented a collection of graphics focussing on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change

This updated edition, launched in February 2005, is based on the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC that was published in 2001.
The publication of this second edition was prompted by the popularity of the first edition and the obvious need for providing updated information to our readers. The contents of this publication are accessible on this web site where all the graphics are reproduced in data formats that could be downloaded for further use.

Entire report available as PDF:

 Vital Climate Change Graphics Update (Size: 5.5mb)