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Climate change, caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, could result in increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and consequently changes in land use, such as movement of the zone of grain production away from the equator at a rate of 10 km/yr (IPCC 2007; Quiggin and Horowitz 2003: 439). With increased temperatures, many respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, coral bleaching and frequencies of heat waves and cyclone and extreme precipitation could increase (Preston and Jones 2006: 26). Concerns about such impacts led to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 and the subsequent related Conferences of Parties (COPs).
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Maraseni, T.N. (2013). Evaluating the Clean Development Mechanism. In: Cadman, T. (eds) Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006127_7
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