The Oil & Gas Industry and the Environment
Module 2: Environmental Issues & Dynamics
Climate Change: Greenhouse Effect | Importance | Facts |
                               Sources of GHGs | Response | Recap

Climate Change Recap

Climate change is important for a number of reasons. Ecosystems, human health and economy are all sensitive to changes in climate – including both the magnitude and rate of climate change.

It is particularly important to remember that as a problem climate change does not exist in isolation.

[Source: Climate Change and Biodiversity (IPCC, 2002)]

What particular oil and gas operations do you think are likely to have an impact on climate change?

 

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