Climate change is one of today’s most critical issues that affect or will affect the human population as a whole and all aspects of our society.

Science is expected to identify and understand the underlying mechanisms of climate change and assess its present and future effects on Earth’s physical and biological systems and on socio-economic structures and come up with new ways hot to tackle the current threat of climate change.

The European Science Foundation, as a leading European science coordinating and networking organisation, is spearheading a number of research initiatives in this regard and through its various instruments supports scientific effort in broad range of disciplines related to climate change.

In the following pages, you can find overview of current state of scientific understanding of climate change together with all the ESF’s climate change activities and initiatives.

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• Causes of climate change

• Greenhouse effect

• Climate change effects

• Projections of future changes of climate

• ESF and climate change research