1. Module 1:
What is
Climate
Change?

2. Global
temperatures
are rising because
of an increase of
greenhouse gases
(like carbon dioxide) EARTH
in the atmosphere

3. We are more than human activity is
90% certain
a major cause of
climate change
Actually it's more certain than that

4. Carbon
is always moving
between plants,
the atmosphere
and the oceans.
Passive carbon
is 'locked away'
Passive Carbon underground.
(fossil fuels)

5. Burning fossil
fuel releases
passive carbon
into the
atmosphere.
If we didn’t burn
it, this carbon
wouldn’t return to
Passive Carbon the atmosphere
(fossil fuels) for millennia.
(through the weathering
of rocks)

6. 71% of all human-caused
greenhouse
gas emissions Residential &
Commercial
come from Waste &
burning
Wastewater
fossil fuels Forestry
71% includes Energy (25.9%), Transport (13.1%), Agriculture (13.5%) and Industry 19.4%).

7. What does Fires
climate change
look like?
.
Steppe Fire in Russia. A steppe fire at night in
the Volgogradsky region, 2010.Forest fires are
set to increase as climate change intensifies.
© Greenpeace

8. What does Floods
climate change
look like?
.
Villagers wade through rising flood waters from the Chao
Phraya in 2006. Earlier in the year, scientists warned that
Thailand would experience more frequent extreme
weather events due to the impacts of climate change.
© Greenpeace

9. What does Drought
climate change s
look like?
.
Drought is severely affecting farmers and graziers in
Australia. The situation is dire for those relying on the
giant Murray-Darling River system, which in some places
has reduced to just a trickle. © Greenpeace

10. The only solution is to
CUT FOSSIL FUEL
EMISSIONS

11. These regions will be hardest hit
(judging the physical impacts of climate change, taking into
account countries' ability to cope)

12. These regions did the most harm
(based on historical carbon emissions per person)

13. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), in 1992:
'the largest share of historical and current global
emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in
developed countries...
… the developed country Parties should take the
lead in combating climate change and the adverse
effects thereof'

14. Countries meet
under the UNFCCC
to tackle climate
change
In 1997 they
generated the
Kyoto Protocol

15. Kyoto Protocol commits
developed countries to
cut collective emissions to
95% of 1990 levels by 2012.
1990 2000 2010 2020

16. Almost all scientists agree the
cuts need to be much deeper
to be effective:
80-95% by 2050
1990 2000 2010 2020

17. REMEMBER
Active Carbon
Forestry Human-induced
(incl. deforestation)
Greenhouse Gas
56% 17.4% Emissions
fossil fuels

18. Proposals are on the table to develop schemes to
Reduce
Emissions from
Deforestation and forest
Degradation.
See module 2: What is REDD ?

19. REMEMBER Unlike forest
emissions, burning
fossil fuels releases
carbon
not normally part of the
active carbon cycle.
Planting more trees or
protecting forests will
not fix this.

20. The only solution is to
CUT FOSSIL FUEL
EMISSIONS

21. Module 1: What is Climate Change?
Module 2: What is REDD?
Module 3: What is carbon trading?
Module 4: Forests and carbon trading
Module 5: REDD and communities
Module 6: Lessons from FLEGT for REDD