CORDIS Express: Research results to support climate change negotiations
On 30 November, representatives from over 190 countries will gather at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris with the aim of achieving a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, to keep global warming below 2°C. The stakes will be high in Paris – the 21st meeting of its kind – with many claiming that this is our final chance to steer the world in the right direction to avert catastrophic climate change. Last month France’s president, Francois Hollande, warned the General Assembly of the United Nations that if the decision isn’t made this year then it will simply be ‘too late for the world’. All along the way, the negotiation process has been supported by intense research efforts from teams of scientists across the world, in particular through reports from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). EU-funded scientists have been playing an important role in providing data and tools to support a strong climate agreement. The IMPACT2C project(opens in new window), for example, drew to a close in September following four years of work to report and highlight the risks, trade-offs, synergies and costs involved in global warming. The project produced a web atlas that will be especially useful for European authorities participating in international negotiations on climate change. Meanwhile the HYPOX project(opens in new window) has provided European policy and decision makers with important knowledge on oxygen depletion in aquatic systems. Oxygen availability in these systems is threatened by global warming and this information enables them to develop effective sustainable development strategies and form positions at international negotiations like COP21. CORDIS Express this week takes a look at the tools and data from FP7-funded projects that are helping to support negotiators in the COP process and hopefully lead to a new international climate agreement. - Predicting climate change impacts(opens in new window) - Effect of changing pH on the Mediterranean(opens in new window) - Oxygen depletion in aquatic ecosystems(opens in new window) - Increase in CO2 and the Southern Ocean(opens in new window) - Trending science: Climate change may bring higher temperatures than ever experienced on Earth to Gulf(opens in new window)
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom