Greenhouse.gov.au is the Australian Department of Climate Change
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Australian Greenhouse Office Home Page
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Australian Greenhouse Office
The Australian Greenhouse Office, part of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, delivers the majority of programmes under the Australian Government’s $1.8 billion climate change strategy.
Climate change is an issue of major significance for all of us. Most of the world's leading scientists agree that global warming caused by human activity is occurring. New and stronger evidence that humans are having an influence on the global climate through greenhouse gas emissions is presented in a report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol arose from increasing international concern about the implications of climate change and a recognition that no one country can solve this global environmental problem alone. They provide the international framework for countries - especially developed countries at this point - to undertake and implement commitments to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. The ultimate objective is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system.
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