climate protection & energy policy The greenhouse effect is the
process by which the atmosphere traps some of the sun’s energy,
warming the earth and moderating our climate. A human-driven
increase in ‘greenhouse gases’ has enhanced this effect
artificially, raising global temperatures and disrupting our
climate. These greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, produced
by burning fossil fuels and through deforestation, methane,
released from agriculture, animals and landfill sites, and
nitrous oxide, resulting from agricultural production, plus a
variety of industrial chemicals. Every day we damage our climate
by using fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) for energy and
transport. As a result, climate change is already impacting on
our lives, and is expected to destroy the livelihoods of many
people in the developing world, as well as ecosystems and
species, in the coming decades. We therefore need to
significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. This makes
both environmental and economic sense. According to