climate change

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to former US Vice President Al Gore and the IPCC for their efforts to communicate the dangers of climate change.

Former World Bank Chief Economist Nicholas Stern predicts the rapid growth of the costs of measures to combat climate change.

At the Gothenburg Summit in 2001, the European Council agreed upon a sustainability strategy for the European Union.

The Kyoto Protocol is an addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that stipulates a reduction of greenhouse gases.

A severe drought hits the region of the Sahel and West African Sudan, causing widespread famines.

The UN Conference for Environment and Development (UNED), known as the first “Earth Summit,” takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The first scientific conference on the causes of climate change takes place in Boulder, Colorado, in the US.

The Global 2000 Report to US President Jimmy Carter is published.

The eruption kills nearly the entire population of the island of Sumbawa and destroys the coasts of two further Indonesian islands. The spread of ash clouds leads to “the year without summer.”