Acute Climate Change in the Arctic: Fighting Air Pollution May Slow Warming
Arctic Council Climate Report Defines the Challenge ADVISORY – June 9, 2011Climate negotiators will discuss two new reports, with major implications for our near-term approach to climate change at a UNFCCC side event in Bonn, this Thursday, June 9. One, the eight-nation Arctic Council’s “SWIPA” (Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic) chronicles the unexpectedly-rapid warming in the Arctic region, resulting in new forecasts for sea level rise three times that believed at the time of the IPCC’s AR-4, in 2007.The other, UNEP’s Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Ozone, will