Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH)

WATCH bases its advocacy work on a strong foundation of reliable expert evidence, across a broad disciplinary spectrum.  For your reference, this page contains a chronological list of key scientific, governmental and inter-governmental reports, and international legal documents, dating from 1972 to the present.  Documents can be accessed by clicking on the title links.

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2012

• United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability: Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing.

2011

• UNFCCC, COP-17: Durban Platform for Advanced Action.
• CSIRO: Australia’s views on climate change.
• Pew Centre for Global Climate Change: Policies in Key Countries.
• The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change.
• Australian Productivity Commission: Carbon Emission Policies in Key Economies.
• The Climate Commission: The Critical Decade.
• CSIRO: Climate Change – Science and Solutions for Australia.
• IPCC Working Group III: Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.

2010

• UNFCCC, COP-16: The Cancun Agreements.
• Australian Academy of Sciences: Climate Change 2010 – Questions and Answers.
• World Bank: Synthesis Report of the Economics of Adaption to Climate Change.
• The Royal Society: A Summary of the Science.
• International Monetary Fund: Financing the Response to Climate Change.

2009

• UNFCCC, COP-15: The Copenhagen Accord.
• University of New South Wales – Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC): The Copenhagen Diagnosis 2009 – Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science.
• The Royal Society: Preventing Dangerous Climate Change.
• United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCR): Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective.

2008

• 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review: Final Report.
• World Health Organization: Protecting Health from Climate Change.
• Joint Science Academies’ Statement: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transition to a Low Carbon Society  (released by the national academies of science of thirteen G8+5 countries on 10th June, 2008).

2007

• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
• UNFCCC, COP-13: Bali Action Plan.

2006

• Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

2001

• IPCC Third Assessment Report.
• COP-7: The Marrakesh Declaration.

1997

• UNFCCC, COP-3: Kyoto Protocol.

1995

• IPCC Second Assessment Report.
• COP-01: The Berlin Mandate.

1992

• Rio Earth Conference: Rio Declaration on the Environment and Development.
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

1990

• IPCC First Assessment Report.

1988

• UN General Assembly: Resolution 43/53 – Declaration of climate change as ‘a common concern of mankind’.

1987

• World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future  (The Brundtland Report).
• Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer.  (forerunner and model for global greenhouse gas mitigation regime).

1985

• UNEP/WMO/ICSU: The Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts.

1979

• US National Research Council: Carbon Dioxide and Climate -A Scientific Assessment.
• World Meteorological Association: Declaration of the World Climate Conference.

1972

• The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind.

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