2001st According to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the average temperature of a terrestrial surface for the period from 1860 to 1960 has raised 1.5 %. In 20th century the temperature of a surface of the Earth has grown 0.6 degrees on a scale of Celsius. In 1969th the temperature of a surface of the Earth was 13.99 degrees, in 2000 - 14.43 degrees.
2005th In 2005 has begun work on acceptance of the new agreement which will replace The Kyoto Protocol .
2006th It is formed the first regional agreement on struggle against change of a climate – the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the USA have joined it. The partnership is based on support of introduction of new technologies and an exchange of experience.
2007th For the first time in history one of the most prestigious awards of a cinema world - “Oscar” - has received film about global warming ” An Inconvenient Truth†,which were recorded by former vice-president of USA Al Gore (he ,once , has put the signature under The Kyoto Protocol). On the range of conference “An Inconvenient Truth ” has taken the third place among all documentary films ever. In 2007 Al Gore has published the same book (An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It.) which became the best seller. Thus, global warming became a mass- cultural phenomenon
. In the “Washington Declaration†presidents and prime ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the Great Britain, the USA, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and the Republic of South Africa have coordinated fundamental requirements of the future agreement which will come in the stead of the Kyoto Protocol. Unlike Kyoto Protocol, the new international contract will assign obligations on reduction of emissions of ” hotbed gases ” to everything, and not just on the “rich” states of the world. It is supposed, that the new agreement will be completed in 2009.
At the summit of the Big Eight is accepted the decision to reduce volumes of emissions of carbonic gas at least half by 2050.