Implications for Canada of Recent IPCC Assessment Reports

prepared by the Canadian Climate Program Board
and the Canadian Global Change Program Board of the Royal Society of Canada

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Climate Change 1994
2.1 Radiative Forcing
2.2 Evaluation of Emission Scenarios
3. Second Assessment Report — Natural Science
3.1 Background
3.2 Trends in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
3.3 Effects of Past Emissions on the Climate System
3.4 Climate Model Simulations
3.5 Climate Observations
4. Second Assessment Report — Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation Options
4.1 Background
4.2 Vulnerabilities, Selected Impacts
4.2.1 Human health
4.2.2 Water systems
4.2.3 Natural ecological systems
4.2.4 Forests
4.2.5 Coastal ecosystems and coastal zones
4.2.6 Agriculture
4.3 Adaptation
5. Second Assessment Report — Economic and Social Sciences
5.1 Purpose and Nature of the Working Group III Report
5.2 The Canadian Context
5.3 Key Findings of the Working Group III Report
5.4 Implications for Canada
5.4.1 Domestic policy
5.4.2 International issues
6. Implications of the Ultimate Objective of FCCC (from the Draft Synthesis Report on Article 2)
6.1 Ultimate Objective of the FCCC
6.2 What Reductions in Emissions Are Needed to Stabilize Atmospheric Concentrations?
6.3 Stabilization Policy Options for Countries
6.4 Factors in Selecting Measures and Poliy Instruments
6.5 Examples of Adaptation, Mitigation and Research Initiatives to Reduce Vulnerabilities
6.5.1 Adaptation
6.5.2 Mitigation
6.5.3 Research

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