| On
Planning for
Development:
On Climate
change |
Letter written in the year 2070
(a) (b)
Article published in the magazine
"Crónicas de los Tiempos", in April 2002
(This is a presentation file (.pps))
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From the International Institute for Environment and Development -
December 2009 -
IIED,
CLACC
Climate change and the
urban poor. Risk and resilience in 15 of the world's most vulnerable
cities
Areas:
Mozambique,
Tanzania,
Kenya,
Bangladesh,
Benin,
Mauritania,
Senegal,
Mali,
Sudan,
Nepal,
Zimbabwe,
Uganda,
Zambia,
Malawi
Topics:
Urban,
Climate
Change
"This report outlines lessons learnt regarding the principal effects of climate change on 15 cities
in low-income countries, and what makes them vulnerable to these effects.
Coastal cities are susceptible to a rise in sea level and are made
vulnerable by the low-lying land they are often built on, while dryland
cities suffer from scarce water resources due to extended periods of
climate change-induced drought. In these and other inland cities, the
level of poverty, the rapid pace of urbanization and a lack of education
about climate change increase vulnerability and aggravate the effects of
climate change. Innovative urban policies and practices have shown that
adaptation to some of these effects is possible and can be built into
development plans. These include community-based initiatives led by
organizations formed by the urban poor, and local governments working in
partnership with their low-income populations".
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Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme
Environment for development
News Center
Impacts
of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner: New Science Report
Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in Copenhagen
Washington/Nairobi,
24 September 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be
outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of
the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). An analysis of
the very latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions
at the upper end of the IPCC's forecasts are becoming ever more
likely. Meanwhile, the newly emerging science points to some events
thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons, as already
happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been
thought.
Going
for a Green New Deal in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, 18 December 2009 - "If we don't
reach a climate deal, one of the failed victims should not be the
economy." Those were the opening words of Mr. Achim Steiner, UN
Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment
Programme at an event entitled Green Economy: Implementing a New
Climate Deal at the UN Climate talks in Copenhagen. Four countries,
Brazil, the Republic of Korea, the Federal Democratic Republic of
Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo took to the floor
explaining how green jobs, growth and sustainability are essential
for their very survival and future economic growth.
Copenhagen, 19 December 2009 - Nations
Seal a Deal on Climate Change at UN Talks
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NASA: Earth Observatory
Atmosphere -
Oceans -
Land -
Energy -
Life
Global Warming Fact Sheet
Over the last five years, 600 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change sifted through thousands of studies about global warming
published in forums ranging from scientific journals to industry publications
and distilled the world’s accumulated knowledge into this conclusion: “Warming
of the climate system is unequivocal.”
Global climate change: NASA's Eye on Earth - Vital signs of the planet
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A Chatham House
Report
Who Owns Our Low
Carbon Future? Intellectual Property and Energy Technologies
by Bernice Lee, Ilian Iliev and Felix Preston, September 2009
Download
Paper here
Download
executive summary
Ensuring access to
climate-friendly technologies at affordable prices is a critical
issue for international public policy - and one that cuts across
economic, legal, security and geopolitical concerns. To keep the
rise in average global temperatures below 2C, global greenhouse gas
emissions must peak before 2020 and be reduced to 50-85 per cent
below 2000 levels by 2050. Achieving these ambitious targets
requires a critical mass of low carbon investment, innovation and
deployment that meets mid- and long-term goals. The implications for
corporate strategies and business models are profound.
This report
examines two issues: patent ownership of climate-friendly
technologies, and the rate of technology diffusion. A polarized
debate continues between proponents of strengthening intellectual
property rights (IPR) regimes to encourage innovation of climate
technologies on the one hand, and those calling for more IP-related
flexibilities to ensure access to key technologies by developing
countries on the other.
'The report
makes a series of practical recommendations for more rapid diffusion
of new technologies on a basis that would be profitable for both the
inventor in the developed country and for the company who puts the
technology into action somewhere else. This report shows how
important an agreement in Copenhagen could be'. - Ambassador
John Bruton, EU Ambassador to the US, October 2009.
Read
Further Resources
More information
about the Chatham House project - Trade,
Finance and Climate Change: Building a Positive Agenda for
Developing Countries
Chatham House is
holding a conference on Powering
the Low Carbon Economy from 1-2 March 2010.
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From Global Development and Environment Institute
Working paper No. 08-03
Policies for Funding a Response to Climate Change
By Brian Roach - July 2008
Specifically, the paper suggests that CERA funds be used to offer low-interest
loans to private firms and to form private-public partnerships pursuing the
long-term development of clean energy technologies. Loan repayment and the eventual
profitability of some partnerships will at least partially fund payments to CERA
holders when they retire. Using reasonable assumptions, a simulation analysis
demonstrates the financial feasibility of the program and the conditions in
which the program would be fully self-funding.
Ecological Macroeconomics: Consumption, Investment, and Climate Change
Working paper 08-02
Jonathan M. Harris - July 2008
The challenge of reducing global carbon emissions by 50-85 per cent by the year 2050,
which is suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007a) as
a target compatible with limiting the risk of a more-than-2ºC temperature
increase, clearly conflicts with existing patterns of economic growth,
which are heavily dependent on increased use of fossil fuel energy.
While it is theoretically possible to conceive of economic growth
being “delinked” from fossil fuel consumption, any such delinking
would represent a drastic change from economic patterns of the last 150 years.
Current macroeconomic theory is heavily oriented towards
an assumption of continuous, exponential growth in GDP. The historical
record shows GDP growth is strongly correlated with a parallel record of
increasing fossil energy use and CO2 emissions. A path of reduced carbon
emissions would require major modifications in economic growth patterns.
Climate change is part of an inter-related group of environmental issues
associated with growth limits. These include population growth, agricultural
production, water supplies, and species loss. To achieve a low-carbon path
requires population stabilization, limited consumption, and major investments
in environmental protection and social priorities such as public health,
nutrition, and education. Macroeconomic theory must be adapted to reflect these new realities.
A reclassification of macroeconomic aggregates is proposed to distinguish
between those categories of goods and services that can expand over time, and
those that must be limited to reduce carbon emissions. This reformulation
makes it clear that there are many possibilities for environmentally beneficial
economic expansion. New forms of Keynesian policy oriented towards ecological
sustainability, provision of basic social needs such as education and health
care, and distributional equity can provide a basis for a rapid reduction in
carbon emissions while promoting investment in human and natural capital.
From Natural Resources Defense Council
The cost of climate change
What We'll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked
Global warming comes with a big price tag for every country in the world. The 80
percent reduction in U.S. emissions needed to stop climate change may not come
cheaply, but the cost of failing to act will be much greater. New research shows
that if present trends continue, the total cost of global warming will be as
high as 3.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Four global warming impacts
alone -- hurricane damage, real estate losses, energy costs, and water costs --
will come with a price tag of 1.8 percent of U.S. GDP, or almost $1.9 trillion
annually (in today's dollars) by 2100. We know how to avert most of these
damages through strong action to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
But the longer we wait, the more painful -- and expensive -- the consequences
will be.
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From Countercurrents.org - 7 October 2007
Climate Change And Entire Landscapes On The
Move
By Stephen
Leahy - Inter Press Service
BROOKLIN, Canada -
The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern
regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15
degrees C. above normal.
Entire hillsides, sometimes more
than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into
valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada’s northwest Arctic region of
Nunavut this summer, says Scott Lamoureux of Queens University in Canada and
leader of one the of International Polar Year projects.
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From The Independent, UK - 7 April 2007
How
the worst effects of climate change will be felt by the
poorest
Humanity will be divided as never before by climate
change, with the world's poor its disproportionate
victims, according to a new United Nations report.
- Scientists
walk out in protest at China's intransigence
- Leading
article: The world's biggest polluters can no
longer ignore the evidence
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
WMO and UNEP
The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP
to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic
information relevant for the understanding of climate
change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation
and mitigation. The
reports by the three Working Groups provide a
comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the current
state of knowledge on climate change.
-- Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis"
-- Working Group II "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"
-- Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change"
The Synthesis Report
integrates the information around six topic areas -more-
2 February 2007
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis
Summary for Policymakers
This Summary for Policymakers was formally approved at the 10th Session of Working
Group I of the IPCC, Paris, February 2007
From the BBC - London - 2 February 2007
Humans blamed for climate change
Global climate change is "very likely" to have a human cause, an influential
group of scientists has concluded.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said temperatures were
probably going to increase by 1.8-4C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century.
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From UNDP
Climate Change Futures - 2006
Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
The Problem: Climate is Changing, Fast -
Trend Analyses: Extreme Weather Events and Costs -
Climate Change Can Occur Abruptly -
The Climate Change Futures Scenarios -
Infectious and Respiratory Diseases -
Malaria -
West Nile Virus -
Lyme Disease -
Carbon Dioxide and Aeroallergens -
Extreme Weather Events -
Heat Waves -
Case 1. European Heat Wave and Analogs for US Cities -
Case 2. Analog for New South Wales, Australia -
Floods -
Natural and Managed Systems -
Forests -
Agriculture -
Marine Ecosystems -
Case 1. The Tropical Coral Reef -
Case 2. Marine Shellfish -
Water -
Financial Implications -
Risk Spreading in Developed and Developing Nations -
The Limits of Insurability -
Business Scenarios -
Constructive Roles for Insurers and Reinsurers -
Optimizing Strategies for Adaptation and Mitigation -
Summary of Financial Sector Measures -
Conclusions and Recommendations -
Policies and Measures-
Appendix A. Summary Table/Extreme Weather Events and Impacts -
Appendix B. Additional Findings and Methods for The US Analog
Studies of Heat Waves -
Appendix C. Finance: Property Insurance Dynamics -
Appendix D. List of Participants, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue -
Bibliography
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From Physics Today
- Issue 8 - August 2003
The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change
and
The discovery of global warming
Only within the past decade have researchers warmed to
the possibility of abrupt shifts in Earth's climate. Sometimes, it takes a while
to see what one is not prepared to look for.
By Spencer Weart
How fast can our planet's
climate change? Too slowly for humans to notice, according to the firm belief of
most scientists through much of the 20th century. Any shift of weather patterns,
even the Dust Bowl droughts that devastated the Great Plains in the 1930s, was
seen as a temporary local excursion. To be sure, the entire world climate could
change radically: The ice ages proved that. But common sense held that such
transformations could only creep in over tens of thousands of years.
In the 1950s, a few scientists found evidence that some of the great climate
shifts in the past had taken only a few thousand years. During the 1960s and
1970s, other lines of research made it plausible that the global climate could
shift radically within a few hundred years. In the 1980s and 1990s, further
studies reduced the scale to the span of a single century. Today, there is
evidence that severe change can take less than a decade. A committee of the
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called this reorientation in the thinking
of scientists a veritable "paradigm shift." The new paradigm of abrupt global
climate change, the committee reported in 2002, "has been well established by
research over the last decade, but this new thinking is little known and
scarcely appreciated in the wider community of natural and social scientists and
policymakers."
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| From the BBC - London - 21 December 2006
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It's hard to explain, Tom, why we did so little to stop global
warming
Looking back,
40 years on, we were intoxicated with an idea of individual freedom that was
little more than greedy egotism
By Madeleine Bunting
Monday November 6,
2006 - The Guardian
Poor you - they've set you a difficult question for your school essay. I'll
try to help, although I still find it difficult to understand myself, let alone
explain to a grandson, why we were so slow in tackling climate change. I would
love to be with you to talk about it all because I think about very little else
now, but I don't have any carbon allocation to travel to the new settlements in
Scotland, so here I sit in the library by the window overlooking a London I
don't recognise these days. I've taken a day off our senior citizens' vegetable
plot to walk here and queue for my internet slot.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Essential
Background --
Documentation --
Meetings
Kyoto
Protocol
Cooperation
& Support --
Adaptation
National
Reports --
GHG
Emissions Data --
Methods
& Science
Parties
& Observers --
Press --
Secretariat
6 November 2006
-- The United Nations Climate Change Conference -
Nairobi 2006 got underway today with calls for action and a stark
warning that climate change is fast proving to be one of the
greatest challenges in the history of humankind. The two-week
conference is the twelfth Conference of the 189 Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and
the second meeting of the 166 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
Pressrelease (131 kB)
Arabic (146 kB)
Chinese (176 kB)
Russian (197 kB)
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New Report Underlines Africa’s
Vulnerability to Climate Change.
5 November 2006, Nairobi
-- A new report on impacts,
vulnerability and adaptation in Africa, released by the Secretariat of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and based
on data from bodies including the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicates that the continent’s
vulnerability to climate change is even more acute than had previously
been supposed.
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Stern Review on the
economics of climate change
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change will be published on
Monday 30th October 2006. Sir Nicholas Stern will be presenting the conclusions
at the Royal Society.
Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change,
gave a keynote lecture to the Oxford Institute of Economic Policy as part of
their distinguished lecture series entitled ‘What is the Economics of Climate
Change?’ on the evening of Tuesday 31 January. This paper sets out the key
approaches and questions for the Stern Review.
--
Stern Review final report - full text
Executive summary
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From The Economist - 7 September 2006
The Heat is On
SURVEY: CLIMATE CHANGE
Global warming, it now seems, is for
real. Emma Duncan examines the nature of the problem, and possible
solutions
Getty Images
THE world's climate has barely changed
since the industrial revolution. The temperature was stable in the 19th
century, rose very slightly during the first half of the 20th, fell back
in the 1950s-70s, then started rising again. Over the past 100 years, it
has gone up by about 0.6°C (1.1°F).
So what's the fuss about? Not so much
the rise in temperature as the reason for it. Previous changes in the
world's climate have been set off by variations either in the angle of the
Earth's rotation or in its distance from the sun. This time there is
another factor involved: man-made “greenhouse gases”.
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From Le Monde Diplomatique - April 2006
Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment
...is the English translation of Le Monde diplomatique's recently
published Atlas 2006. It is the result of a long-standing cooperation between Le
Monde diplomatique and GRID-Arendal...
These pages offer a holistic and well-researched analysis of today's global
issues and their impact on human population and the environment. Written by an
international team of specialists, these pages from the Atlas illustrate through
text and maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the
world's ecosystems and natural resources both in the short and long terms. It
brings together a wealth of information from the most up-to-date sources on such
key issues as climate change, access to water, exploitation of ocean resources,
nuclear energy and waste, renewable energy, weapons of mass destruction, causes
of industrial accidents, waste, export, hunger, genetically modified organisms,
urban development, access to health care and ecological change in China...
Polar
ice caps melting faster Global warming is not affecting the planet evenly and
most of the existing models forecast that it will be greater in the northern
hemisphere. With an overall increase of 2°C, temperatures in the Arctic could
increase by a factor of two or three. The southern hemisphere, would also be
affected, though less severely...
GM organisms, too much, too soon The issue of
genetically modified organisms draws together strands from the debate on the
global market and the concept of progress. It is a perfect illustration of how
market forces come into play much more quickly than the precautions that seem
appropriate given the current state of research. We are consequently already
eating genetically engineered foodstuffs without it being possible to guarantee
they are entirely safe. China a key factor in tomorrow's climate China is fast
becoming the workshop of the 21st century world. But a shortage of raw materials
abroad and increasingly serious environmental problems at home are already
threatening continued growth.
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-List of all available maps...
http://mondediplo.com/maps/
-Order (in English) from earthprint.com
http://www.earthprint.com/go.htm?to=3548
-See a summary of LMD's Atlas (in French)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/publications/atlas2006/
-Order LMD's Atlas (in French)
http://boutique.monde-diplomatique.fr/
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From
CERES - 21 March 2006
2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the
Connection
The 2006 Corporate Governance and Climate Change:
Making the Connection report includes a 30-page summary
report comprised of the executive summary, the climate
governance scoring criteria, the 100 company scores and
sector-specific findings. The report also includes two to
three page profiles on each of the companies evaluated.
Note: A complete listing of all companies and their
scores can be found at page four. By clicking on
company names on this page, users will be linked directly to
the corresponding company profiles.
Download: Summary
Report 
Download: Full
Text
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23 February 2006
Take part in the largest climate experiment ever
We need the computer power you're not using. Join in the largest climate
prediction experiment ever, developed by climate scientists for the BBC using
the Met Office climate model.
We need thousands of people to help
Trying to predict climate change is hard. There are lots of factors involved
– air temperature, sea temperature and cloud cover all play a part – as do
dozens of other variables. Therefore, there are a huge number of calculations
involved.
One solution is for scientists to use the largest supercomputer they can
find. But even the biggest supercomputers are only so good.
We think you can do better.
Using a technique known as distributed computing, we’re hoping to harness the
power of thousands of PCs around the world. If 10,000 people sign up, we’ll be
faster than the world’s biggest computer. And we’re hoping to be even better
than that.
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Guide
to climate change
How does the greenhouse effect work - and how hot might it get?
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The University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Center
For Climatic Research
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From BBC News - 24
Novemebre 2005
CO2 "highest for 650,000 years"
Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide
and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years.
That is the conclusion of new European studies looking at ice taken from 3km below the
surface of Antarctica. The scientists say their research shows present day warming to be
exceptional. Other research, also published in the journal Science, suggests that sea
levels may be rising twice as fast now as in previous centuries.
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Climate pact: For good or bad?
Earth - melting in the heat?
Climate summit postponed
Arctic ice 'disappearing
quickly'
US climate talks
'disappointing'
World scientists urge CO2 action
Q&A: The Kyoto Protocol
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Climate "warmest for millenium"
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Trade can
'export' CO2 emissions
Last-minute
climate deals reached
Q&A:
Blair's climate strategy
Water
builds the heat in Europe
'Gas
muzzlers' challenge Bush
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From Countercurrents.org
Climate
Change/Global Warming
The roof of the world is changing. Almost 95 per cent
of Himalayan glaciers are shrinking - and that kind of ice loss has profound implications,
not just for Nepal and Bhutan, but for surrounding nations, including China, India and
Pakistan
Scientists have compiled one of the first comprehensive pictures of what the world might
be like when climate change begins to trigger a dramatic increase in epidemics, disease
and death
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Friends of the
Earth - 8 November 2005
Britain: Young people take action on climate
change
Sixty per cent of young people, aged 8-14, are
concerned that the world will suffer the effects of climate change when they are adults
and more than seventy per cent of them already take action at home or school to save
energy, a new survey reveals today. The results are published as part of Friends of the
Earth's activity week for schools `Shout about climate change', which runs from 7-11
November 2005.
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Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
-
30 March 2005
Experts Warn Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen,
Putting Global Development Goals At Risk
A landmark study released today reveals that
approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth – such
as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of
regional climate, natural hazards and pests – are being degraded or used
unsustainably. Scientists warn that the harmful consequences of this degradation could
grow significantly worse in the next 50 years.
“Any progress achieved in addressing the goals of poverty and hunger eradication,
improved health, and environmental protection is unlikely to be sustained if most of the
ecosystem services on which humanity relies continue to be degraded,” said the study,
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report, conducted by 1,300 experts from 95
countries. It specifically states that the ongoing degradation of ecosystem services is a
road block to the Millennium Development Goals agreed to by the world leaders at the
United Nations in 2000.
-
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Synthesis Report
pdf, 6,773 KB
--
Popularized Version of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis
Report
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UNIDO
Cleaner
Production
The UNIDO cleaner production (CP) programme aims at
building national CP capacities, fostering dialogue between industry and government and
enhancing investments for transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies.
Through this programme, UNIDO is bridging the gap between competitive industrial
production and environmental concerns. CP is more than just a technical solution. It has a
widespread application at all decision-making levels in industry, with the chief focus on
adoption of cleaner technologies and techniques within the industrial sector. Costly
end-of-pipe pollution control systems are gradually replaced with a strategy that reduces
and avoids pollution and waste throughout the entire production cycle, from efficient use
of raw materials, energy and water to the final product.
Industrial
Governance and Statistics
Investment and Technology Promotion
Industrial Competitiveness and Trade
Private Sector Development
Agro-Industries
Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
Montreal Protocol
Environmental Management |
D. Stipp (January
26, 2004)
CLIMATE COLLAPSE
The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare
The climate could change
radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues.
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| World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD) Follow-up |
9 April 2004:
Farming is biggest global environmental threat, says new book |
The Copenhagen Consensus Project organised
by Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute with the co-operation of The Economist,
aims to consider and to establish priorities among a series of proposals for advancing
global welfare. The initiative was described in Economics Focus of
March 6th.
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Copenhagen
Consensus 2004 (oficial website) |
Human
Development Report 2007-2008
Human Development and Climate Change
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st
Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse
international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most
vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even
though they have contributed least to the problem. Looking to the future, no
country—however wealthy or powerful—will be immune to the impact of global
warming.
The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just
a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already
destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now
overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at
which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual
climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human
development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their
grandchildren.
Selected
background papers
Leiserowitz,
Anthony - 2007
"Public
Perception, Opinion and Understanding of Climate Change"
Natural scientists have described global warming as perhaps the preeminent environmental risk
confronting the world in the 21st century. Meanwhile, social scientists have found that public risk
perceptions strongly influence the way people respond to hazards. What the public perceives as a
risk, why they perceive it that way, and how they will subsequently behave are thus vital
questions for policy makers attempting to address global climate change, in which the effects are
delayed, have inequitable distributions of costs and benefits, and are beyond the control of any
one group. In this situation, public support for or opposition to proposed climate policies will be
greatly influenced by the perceived risks of global warming. Further, “scientists need to know
how the public is likely to respond to climate impacts or initiatives, because those responses can
attenuate or amplify the impacts”.
This thematic paper summarizes international public perception, opinion and understanding of
global climate change and reports results from an in-depth study of public climate change risk
perceptions, policy preferences and individual behaviors in the United States.
Arroyo, Vicki,
and Peter Linguiti. "Current
Directions in the Climate Change Debate in the United States"
Barker, Terry,
and Katie Jenkins. "The
Costs of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change"
Boykoff,
Maxwell T, and J. Timmons Roberts. "Media
Coverage of Climate Change"
de la Fuente,
Alejandro, and Ricardo Fuentes. "The
Impact of Natural Disasters on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico"
Fuentes,
Ricardo, and Papa Seck. "The
Short and Long-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks"
Henderson,
Caspar. "Carbon
Budget—the agenda for mitigation"
IGAD, ICPAC.
"Climate
Change and Human Development in Africa"
O’Brien,
Karen, and Robin Leichenko. "Human
Security, Vulnerability and Sustainable Adaptation"
Osbahr, Henny.
"Building
resilience"
Perelet, Renat.
"Central
Asia"
Perelet, Renat,
Serguey Pegov and Mikhail Yulkin. "Climate
Change"
Rahman, A. Atiq,
Mozaharul Alam, Sarder Shafiqul Alam, Md. Rabi Uzzaman, Mariam Rashid and
Golam Rabbani. "Risks,
Vulnerability and Adaptation in Bangladesh"
Reid, Hannah,
and Saleemul Huq. "International
and National Mechanisms and Politics of Adaptation"
Seck, Papa.
"Links
between Natural Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk
Reduction"
Watson, Jim,
Gordon MacKerron, David Ockwell and Tao Wang. "Technology
and carbon mitigation in developing countries"
Brown, Oli.
"Climate
change and forced migration"
Carvajal,
Liliana. "Impacts
of Climate Change on Human Development"
Conceição,
Pedro, Yanchun Zhang and Romina Bandura. "Brief
on Discounting in the Context of Climate Change Economics"
Conde, Cecilia,
Sergio Saldaña, and Víctor Magaña. "Thematic
Regional Paper"
de Buen, Odón.
"Decarbonizing
Growth in Mexico"
de la Fuente,
Alejandro. "Private
and Public Responses to Climate Shocks"
de la Fuente,
Alejandro. "Climate
Shocks and their Impact on Assets"
Dobie, Philip,
Barry Shapiro, Patrick Webb and Mark Winslow. "How
do Poor People Adapt to Weather Variability and Natural Disasters Today?"
Gaye, Amie.
"Access
to Energy and Human Development"
Kelkar, Ulka,
and Suruchi Bhadwal. "South
Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation"
Khoday, Kishan.
"Climate
Change and the Right to Development"
Krznaric,
Roman. "For
God’s Sake, Do Something!"
Kuonqui,
Christopher. "Responding
to Clear and Present Dangers"
Li, Junfeng.
"Mitigation
Country Study"
Mathur, Ritu,
and Preety Bhandari. "Living
Within a Carbon Budget"
Matus Kramer,
Arnoldo. "Adaptation
to Climate Change in Poverty Reduction Strategies"
Menon, Roshni.
"Famine
in Malawi"
Newell, Peter.
"The
Kyoto Protocol and Beyond"
Tolan, Sandy.
"Coverage
of Climate Change in Chinese Media"
Volpi, Giulio.
"Climate
Mitigation, Deforestation and Human Development in Brazil"
Winkler, Harald,
and Andrew Marquard. "Energy
Development and Climate Change"
Yue, Li, Lin
Erda and Li Yan. "Impacts
of, and Vulnerability and Adaptation to, Climate Change in Water Resources
and Agricultural Sectors in China"
Arredondo Brun,
Juan Carlos. "Adapting
to Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply in Mexico City"
Bambaige,
Albertina. "National
Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Impacts"
Birch, Isobel,
and Richard Grahn. "Pastoralism"
Canales Davila,
Caridad, and Alberto Carillo Pineda. "Spain
Country Study"
Chaudhry,
Peter, and Greet Ruysschaert. "Climate
Change and Human Development in Viet Nam"
Cornejo, Pilar.
"Ecuador
Case Study"
Donner, Simon
D. "Canada
Country Study"
Lemos, Maria
Carmen. "Drought,
Governance and Adaptive Capacity in North East Brazil"
Meinshausen,
Malte. "Stylized
Emission Path"
Nangoma,
Everhart. "National
Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change Impacts"
Nguyen, Huu
Ninh. "Flooding
in Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam"
Orindi, Victor
A., Anthony Nyong and Mario Herrero. "Pastoral
Livelihood Adaptation to Drought and Institutional Interventions in Kenya"
Painter, James.
"Deglaciation
in the Andean Region"
Pederson, Peter
D. "Japan"
Regmi, Bimal
R., and A. Adhikari. "Country
Case Study"
Salem, Boshra.
"Sustainable
Management of the North African Marginal Drylands"
Schmid, Jürgen.
"Mitigation
Country Study for Germany"
Seck, Papa.
"The
Rural Energy Challenge in Senegal"
Sullivan, Rory.
"Australia
Country Study"
Trigoso Rubio,
Erika. "Climate
Change Impacts and Adaptation in Peru"
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It is time to Turn Up the Heat
Few corporations or public figures are now stupid enough to deny that climate
change is happening, or that we need to reduce our emissions of greenhouse
gases. Instead, most of them now claim to be on the side of the angels. They
make public statements or publish reports designed to persuade us that they are
“working towards sustainability”.
In a few cases, they really are. But for every genuine reformer, there are
half a dozen who are simply greenwashing their existing practices. The people
who will destroy the ecosystem are not, or not only, sneering industrialists in
pinstriped suits, but nice-looking people in open-necked shirts who claim that
they are just as concerned as the rest of us to save the planet.
This site aims to ensure that they don’t get away with it. Its purpose is to
expose the fudged figures, dodgy claims and empty public relations campaigns of
the charming people who are wrecking the biosphere
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BP Statistical Review of World Energy
2006
Full time series since 1965
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International Energy Agency
- Oil Markets Reports
- World Energy Outlook
- Key World Energy Statistics 2004
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Energy Information
Administration (US)
World Energy and
Economic Outlook 2004 |
Róbinson Rojas
Preliminary notes on energy consumption and population growth.
1880-2003
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Preliminary data on energy use per capita and cycles. 1971-2001
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Preliminary data on population, energy consumption and cycles.
1965-2003 |
BBC
NEWS
Planet Under Pressure
A six-part BBC News Online series looking at some of
the most pressing environmental issues facing the human race today. By Alex Kirby BBC News
Online environment correspondent
Introduction
Part 1: Species under threat
Part 2: World water crisis
Part 3: Energy crisis
Part 4: Feeding the world
Part 5: Climate change
Part 6: Fighting pollution
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Why the Sun seems to be "dimming"
Horizon: Global Dimming |
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Journal of World-Systems Research:
Number 2 (Summer 2003)
On Globalization and the Environment
Andrew K. Jorgenson & Edward L. Kick
Globalization
and the Environment
Alf Hornborg
Cornucopia
or Zero-Sum Game? The Epistemology of Sustainability
Stephen G. Bunker
Matter, Space,
Energy, and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World-System
Peter Grimes & Jeffrey Kentor
Exporting
the Greenhouse: Foreign Capital Penetration and CO2 Emissions 1980–1996
J. Timmons Roberts, Peter E. Grimes & Jodie L. Manale
Social Roots of
Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
R. Scott Frey
The Transfer of
Core-Based Hazardous Production Processes to the Export Processing Zones of the Periphery:
The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico
Thomas J. Burns, Edward L. Kick, & Byron L. Davis
Theorizing and
Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System:
Deforestation in the Late 20th Century
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Review Essay
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Lateral
Pressure and Deforestation A Review Essay of Environmental Impacts of
Globalization and Trade: A Systems Study by Corey L Lofdahl
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Book Reviews
Franz J. Broswimmer
Ecocide: A
Short History of Mass Extinction of Species
Reviewed by Florencio R. Riguera
Arthur Mol and Frederick Buttel (eds)
The
Environmental State Under Pressure
Reviewed by Bruce Podobnik |
UNIDO
Sustainable
energy and climate change
Industrial energy is essential to economic and social
development and to improving the quality of life. Indeed, the availability of affordable
and sustainable energy to all people is critical to the achievement of the MDGs, and its
contributions can help to meet the targets in various ways. In particular, energy is a
prerequisite for poverty alleviation, as targeted in MDG 1, since it enables
income-generating activities and the establishment of micro-enterprises. Similarly, energy
helps to alleviate hunger and meet most of the other social and welfare-related MDGs by
providing the light and power that the achievement of these goals critically depends on. |
The discovery of global warming
A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly)
understand what people are doing to change the Earth's climate |
Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary
Global warming and the Third World (University of East
Anglia) |
GEsource Geography and Environment Gateway
Led by the GEsource team at the University of
Manchester, GEsource is a free online catalogue of high quality Internet resources in
geography and environmental science. Resources are selected, catalogued and indexed by
researchers and other specialists in their respective fields. |
DIE OFF
[Synopsis]
[Search] [Oil Depletion] [Economic Theory] [Scientific Consensus] [Food, Land, Water and Population] [Climate Change] [Disease] [Moral Theory] [Carrying Capacity] [Tragedy of The Commons] [Sustainability] [Ecology] [Systems] [Odds & Ends] |
Ethical Trade
Currents
Issue 2
Summer 2004
Climate, Energy and
Poverty
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OECD: Headquarters
Sustainable development and the new economy
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Analysing the
Nexus of Sustainable Development and Climate Change: An Overview (pdf, 478Kb,English)
View
long abstract 09-Apr-2003
Mohan Munasinghe
COM/ENV/EPOC/DCD/DAC(2002)2/FINAL
This paper is a background document to the OECD Development and Climate Change
Project. The analysis sketches out a broad framework to address the nexus of sustainable
development and climate change.
Related documents:
Development
and Climate Change Project - (English)
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Science, the
Environment, Economics and Sustainable Development
(pdf, 111Kb,English)
View
long abstract 19-Jun-2003
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Environmental
Priorities for China Sustainable Development (pdf, 287Kb,English)
View
long abstract 03-Mar-2004
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MODIS: rapid fire response
system
The MODIS Rapid Response System was developed to provide daily satellite images
of the Earth's landmasses in near real time. True-color, photo-like imagery and
false-color imagery are available within a few hours of being collected, making
the system a valuable resource for organizations like the U.S. Forest Service
and the international fire monitoring community, who use the images to track
fires; the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service,
who monitors crops and growing conditions; and the United States Environmental
Protection Agency and the United States Air Force Weather Agency, who track dust
and ash in the atmosphere.
The science community also uses the system in
projects like the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), which studies particles
like smoke, pollution, or dust in the atmosphere. More information about science
and application partners, including links, is provided on our applications page. Captioned
interpreted images for educators, the media, and the public are available
through the Earth
Observatory. The system is freely available everyone--scientists,
operational users, educators, and the general public
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New Scientist:
Climate
Change
Global
Environment Report
Biodiversity
Pollution
Population
World
Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 |
K. Bruno, J.
Karliner & C. Brotsky:
Greenhouse
Gangsters vs. Climate Justice
CorpWatchNovember 1st, 1999
This report documents how the companies not only
contribute to global warming but also use their enormous power to DENY
the problem, DELAY solutions, DIVIDE their opposition, DUMP their
problems in the developing world, and DUPE the public into believing
the problem is solved.
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United Nations :
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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The Convention and Kyoto Protocol
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Agenda 21
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| Tracking Earth satellites |
| Fourmilab |
The Albert Einstein Archive
The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online
access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by
the Albert Einstein Archives at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an
extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most
influential intellects in the modern era.
DIGITIZED MANUSCRIPTS
The site allows viewing and browsing of approx. 3,000
high-quality digitized images of Einstein’s
writings, available for viewing in two sizes: a standard resolution image, as
well as a high-resolution image for closer inspection. This digitization of more
than 900 documents written by Einstein was produced by the Jewish National & University Library’s
Digitization Project and was made possible by generous grants of David and
Fela Shapell
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Global
Environment Outlook 1
(1997)
Global Environment Outlook 2
(2000)
Global Environment Outlook 3
(2002) |
CIESIN (Columbia University)
World
Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is a
center within the Earth
Institute at Columbia University.
CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information
sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial
data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human
interactions in the environment.
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World Resources Institute:
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CorpWatch:
Climate
Justice
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D. Knight:
Capital flow
to third world threatens global environment |
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