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Global Monitoring of Our Climate: The Essential Climate Variables: At its side event during the UNFCCC slot the European Space Agency (ESA) will provide information on the efforts by ESA and other space agencies to respond to the need for space-based observation.
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If the well runs dry — climate change adaptation and water: 'Our water is shut off once or twice a month, sometimes more,' says Baris Tekin from his apartment in Besiktas, an historic district of Istanbul, where he lives with his wife and daughter. 'We have about 50 litres of bottled water in the apartment for washing and cleaning, just in case. If the water is off for a really long time we go to my father's place or to my wife's parents,' says Baris, an economics professor at Marmara University.
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Not just hot air — global diplomacy and the search for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol: Every winter the gates of Copenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens, an old-world amusement park in the city centre, open to officially mark the beginning of the extended Christmas period. This December the twinkling lights of Tivoli will most likely be outshone by COP 15 — the most important global climate change meeting ever — as thousands of diplomats, politicians, business people, environmentalists, media and climate experts from around the globe flock to the Danish capital.
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Ice cube exhibition: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This exhibition, which is being organised by the European Commission, illustrates the difference between applying European proposals in order to mitigate climate change and taking no action at all. Intervention by EEA Executive Director, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, the 17th at 16.30
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Understanding climate change — SOER 2010 thematic assessment: Average global air and ocean temperatures are rising, leading to the melting of snow and ice and rising global mean sea level. Ocean acidification results from higher CO2 concentrations. With unabated greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could lead to an increasing risk of irreversible shifts in the climate system with potentially serious consequences. Temperature rises of more than 1.5–2 °C above pre-industrial levels are likely to cause major societal and environmental disruptions in many regions. The atmospheric CO2 concentration needs to be stabilised at 350–400 parts per million (ppm) in order to have a 50 % chance of limiting global mean temperature increase to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels (according to the IPCC in 2007, and confirmed by later scientific insights).
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Climate change(s) people's stories: let's act!: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Throughout COP15, large images will be displayed on the facades of the French Embassy, the Academy of Fine Arts and the European Environment Agency, calling for commitment and stressing the urgency of the situation. A photo exhibition for the general public at the Agency, and by invitation only at the Embassy, will complete this initiative.
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The Copenhagen Climate Exchange, EEA stand: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Copenhagen Climate Exchange will demonstrate that the issue of global warming involves much more than complex political agreements.
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Cities of the future — how will European cities adapt to new climate conditions?: Cities and towns are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and will need to find innovative ways to adapt. Now is the time to start rethinking urban design and management — yet few have taken concrete action.
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Presentation at the Polar Conservation Organisation's Arctic venue (boat in Nyhavn): OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PCO will have an information stand (a bus) on Kongens Nytorv and a small venue (a boat) at Havnegade where there will be public debates on the Polar regions.
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