1. Taking Action to Slow Climate Change 9.3

2. Identify Bias

4. Carbon Footprint

5. Footprint Calculator The calculator on the World Wildlife Federation website gives informative explanations of what causes CO 2 emissions below each question.calculator

6. http://www.carbonzero.ca founded in 2006, specializes in helping companies to implement carbon- reduction strategies (including carbon offsets) Organics Biodigestion Project in Toronto…read the details here.here

7. Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

8. International Initiatives In 1988, the United Nations Environment Programme & the World Meteorological Organization formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty produced after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero in 1977 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

9. Kyoto Protocol

10. Initiatives in Canada ecoEnergy Efficiency Initiative ecoEnergy Efficiency Initiative financial incentives to homeowners & businesses to make buildings more energy efficient Ontario’s Drive Clean

11. Economic Initiatives cap-and-trade systems establish ceilings for carbon emissions. Corporations buy/sell carbon credits. carbon-tax system taxes source of carbon compounds or greenhouse gas emissions.

12. Climate Change Conferences The first UN Climate Change conference was held in Berlin in 1995. They are held annually (including in Kyoto in 1997) and the most recent one was held in Paris in Nov/Dec 2015.

13. Paris 2015 This CBC article highlights 5 key points from the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015.article