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Article: Climate Change - Global Warming.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- September 17, 2008
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Previously published in The 2008/2009 Lexpert CCCA/ACCJE Corporate Counsel Directory and Yearbook
In the past year, climate change has become among the most publicized issues in Canada and one of the main sources of political debate. Its global significance was reaffirmed in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that evidence of climate change is "unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level." On the basis of this science, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, among ...