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The Kyoto Protocol Greenhouse Gases and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act: A synthesis of relevant science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report in the context of CEPA Section 64.

Endnotes

In the endnotes below, IPCC reports will be referred to simply as IPCC 2001: WGI, WGII, and Synthesis Report, as appropriate. The full references for these reports are given here:

  • IPCC 2001 WGI Report:
    IPCC 2001: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Houghton, J.T., Ding, Y., Griggs, D.J., Noguer, M., Van der Linden, P.J., Dai, X., Maskell, K. and Johnson, C.A. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. 881 pp.

  • IPCC 2001 WGII Report:
    IPCC 2001:Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group 2 to the Third Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. McCarthy, J.J., Canziani, O.F., Leary, N.A., Dokken, D.J. and White, K.S. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. 1032 pp.

  • IPCC 2001 Synthesis Report:
    IPCC 2001:Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. Contributions of Working Groups 1, 2 and 3 to the Third Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Watson, R.T. et al. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. 397 pp.

1 Joint Statement by 17 National Academies of Science. Science Vol 292 Number 5520 (May 18) pp1261.

2 National Research Council. 2001. Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. Committee on the Science of Climate Change. Division of Earth and Life Sciences. National Research Council. National Academy Press. Washington, D.C.

3 IPCC 2001: WGI Report. IPCC 2001: WGII Report.

4 IPCC 2001: Synthesis Report.

5 The IPCC emissions scenarios referred to are the so-called SRES scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Nakicenovic, N.J. et al. 2000. Emission Scenarios. A Special report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

6 The underlying reference for this discussion on Reasons for Concern is Chapter 19 of the IPCC WGII Report.

7 WGII Report Technical Summary Section 7.2.

 
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