Global Warming

Global warming and climate variability occur as natural phenomena. The issue of governance relates to human-induced global warming as it is defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as climate change either directly or indirectly attributable to humans changing the global atmosphere's composition separate from expected climate changeability in a comparable period. The term typically evokes the effects on the climate of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and large-scale deforestation, which cause emissions to the atmosphere of large amounts of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride). Such gases absorb infrared radiation emitted by the earth's surface and act as blankets over the surface, keeping it warmer than it would otherwise be. Global warming is often considered as the most important environmental problem the world faces and one of the major challenges for global governance and management.