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A Way Forward: Canadian perspectives on post-2012 climate policy  new

This document was developed under the Post-2012 Climate Dialogue Project, a twoyear initiative implemented by IISD. The project aimed to contribute to an increased understanding of Canada's situation vis-à-vis the climate change issue and Canadian approaches to a post-2012 climate regime.

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2007/a_way_forward.pdf

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Climate change and low-lying Pacific islands: a plain person's guide to global warming, sea-level rise, and the threat to Pacific Islands [pdf]  new

This paper provides a sea level rise analysis and climate change forecasts. It provides simple and credible explanations in response to the three underlying questions which skeptics and everyday people are preoccupied: - Is global warming contributing to the rate of sea-level rise? - Why do the rates of sea-level rise vary from place to place? and - What is the threat to low-lying islands? This paper also suggests that scientists and those charged with the responsibility for developing and implementing practical strategies to deal with climate change, need to look closer at the current short and medium term trends and the extremes (Phillip Hall, 2008).

http://www.faerberhall.com/papers_enviro/pdf/Sea%20Level%20Rise.pdf

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Record Glacier Thinning Means No Time to Waste on Agreeing New International Climate Regime  new

The world's glaciers are continuing to melt away with the latest official figures showing record losses. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP), May 8 2008)

http://www.ecovoice.com.au/enews/enews-51/CLI_glaciers.php

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State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2008  new

A look at where the global carbon markets were in 2007, what drove their growth and what is expected to happen in the coming years (World Bank, 9 May 2008).

http://www.greenbiz.com/files/document/State___Trends--formatted_06_May_10pm.pdf

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Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance  new

Gender and Climate Change-October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/WOMEN%20IN%20POLITICS%20AND%20GOVERNANCE%202008.doc

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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse. China has eclipsed the United States in the consumption of most basic resources, and the western economic model-the fossil-fuel-based, auto-centered, throwaway economy-is not going to work. This book, which is available for download by chapter online, explains why business as usual-Plan A-cannot take us where we want to go. It is time for Plan B, time to build a new economy and a new world. Plan B has three components-(1) a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization; (2) an all-out effort to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and restore hope in order to elicit participation of the developing countries; and (3) a systematic effort to restore natural systems. (Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, 2006)

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB2/Contents.htm

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"We Want More"

The "first-ever national youth climate summit", a student-based Power Shift conference, took place November 2-5, 2007 at the University of Maryland. Some of the topics covered in the workshops and panels included: anti-racism and anti-oppression, organizing strategies and tactics on the climate issue on college campuses, community-based, statewide and national organizing and legislative approaches on the climate issue, ending the U.S. addiction to coal and oil, civil disobedience and direct action in the climate movement. (ZNet Commentary, November 21, 2007)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-11/21glick.cfm

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An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change

Climate change will have serious environmental, socio-economic and security consequences for both developed and developing nations alike. This report explores these consequences and demonstrates that they will present new challenges to governments trying to maintain domestic stability.(Chris Abbott, January 2008)

http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/uncertainfuture.php

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Can the Free Market Slow Deforestation?

Tropical forests' ability to store carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change makes them more valuable than alternative uses like pasture or lumber, and rich countries ought to pay tropical countries to preserve their forests, a recent World Bank report, "At Loggerheads", says. This article discusses this report and talks to environmentalists who disagree with its findings. (Stephen Leahy, IPS, 25 October 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35224

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Drastic Action on Climate Change is Needed Now - and Here's the Plan

Nicholas Stern's report has demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it. Still, the principal costs of climate change will be measured in lives, not pounds. There would be a moral imperative to seek to prevent mass death even if the economic case did not stack up. So how do we do it without bringing civilisation crashing down? Here is a plan for drastic but affordable action that the government could take. It goes much further than the proposals discussed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, for the reason that this is what the science demands. (George Monbiot, Guardian, 31 October 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1031-21.htm

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Forests in Flux: Climate Change - the Threats to World Forests [PDF 3.97Mb]

Over the 21st century, the temperature at the earth's surface is likely to increase significantly, and all ecosystems, including forests, will experience the most rapid period of climate change since the end of the last ice age. The distribution and composition of forests will be affected by this change, and effective conservation strategies will need to accommodate the prospect of rapidly migrating climate zones and shifting ecosystems.

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/flux/executive_summary.htm

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Information Cleansing, Canadian Style

Since early July, Canada's government, under conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper - has been systematically scrubbing its websites of information regarding global warming and the Kyoto Protocol treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions, following the lead of the George W. Bush administration in the United States. (Bill Berkowitz, IPS, 16 August 2006)

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34363

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LiveEarth launches in Shanghai - the new centre of the fight against global warming

If you had said a decade ago that Al Gore would be organising the biggest rock concert in history, with two billion people watching and worrying about climate science, you would have been swiftly sectioned. But here we are: this weekend, the democratically elected 43rd President of the United States will be cheered onto the LiveEarth stage by hundreds of millions of viewers eager to know more about how we are, together, drastically altering the physical and chemical composition of our atmosphere. (Johann Hari, 4 July 2007).

http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1151

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Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence". The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as "inaccurate and misleading". (David Adam, Guardian, 20 September 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm

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Scientist stuns experts by saying trees worsen greenhouse effect

A leading expert in Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has reaffirmed findings by his team in Mainz, Germany, in January 2006 that they had detected methane exhaled from living plants. (Earth Times, 14 May 2007)

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/62336.html

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The Soy Case

Soy production has been booming the past 25 years. Most of this protein and oil containing bean goes as animal feed to the meat industry in Europe and China. Protein from fish meal has become scarce, other animal sources have been forbidden because of BSE, but the demand for meat is rising rapidly world-wide. As a result of the focus on monoculture export crops, such as soy, millions of people in one of the world's biggest food exporting regions are now suffering from malnutrition. GM-soy is contaminating the countryside and the risen use of pesticides is polluting water and soil. This resource discusses the soy case in Latin America. (A SEED, 2006)

http://aseed.tuxic.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=108

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The world's first 'climate refugees'

One year after Hurricane Katrina struck, 370,000 people still have not returned to the U.S. Gulf Coast, with an estimated 250,000 of them having established new homes elsewhere. "They no longer want to face the personal trauma and financial risks associated with rising seas and destructive storms," Lester Brown, director of the Earth Policy Institute, said. "These evacuees are now climate refugees." (20 August 2006)

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update57.htm

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'Energy Security' Plan Panned over Climate, Nuclear Concerns

Leaders of the Group of Eight have drawn fire from international civil society groups after they embraced an energy plan that favors continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels with no hint of any solid steps to deal with the impending threat of climate change. (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US, 18 July 2006)

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/136639/1/4536

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A plan of action to support climate change adaptation through scientific capacity, knowledge and research

This paper is concerned with how to support climate change adaptation through scientific capacity, knowledge and inquiry. It highlight some of the key lessons for climate change adaptation from scientific research and assessment. It then lays out the priorities for an adaptation science agenda that would be targeted at the needs of adaptation planning, decision-making and implementation. It proposes a number of principles that should underlie implementation of an adaptation science agenda. (Neil Leary, AIACC, 2004)

http://www.aiaccproject.org/working_papers/Working%20Papers/AIACC_WP23_Leary.pdf

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A poor climate makes for poor people

This is a comment from CIVICUS on the importance of environmental concerns in the Millennium Development Goals. An introduction to the information that will be supplied by e-CIVICUS to support citizen participation in the upcoming Bali summit in December (CIVICUS, 26 September 2007).

http://www.civicus.org/new/default.asp

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A sinking feeling: views on climate change from Tuvalu

The floods are getting worse in Tuvalu. As scientists argue over climate change and struggle to measure rising seas, the author meets the locals of this tiny island nation, whose attitudes and responses to the impending catastrophe vary in complex and sometimes surprising ways. (Samir S. Patel, Nature, April 2006)

http://www.scidev.net/pdffiles/nature/tuvalu.pdf

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Adapting to climate change: What's needed in poor countries, and who should pay

Climate change is forcing vulnerable communities in poor countries to adapt to unprecedented climate stress. Rich countries, primarily responsible for creating the problem, must stop harming, by fast cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions, and start helping, by providing finance for adaptation. In developing countries Oxfam estimates that adaptation will cost at least $50bn each year, and far more if global emissions are not cut rapidly. Urgent work is necessary to gain a more accurate picture of the costs to the poor. According to Oxfam's new Adaptation Financing Index, the USA, European Union, Japan, Canada, and Australia should contribute over 95 per cent of the finance needed. This finance must not be counted towards meeting the UN-agreed target of 0.7 per cent for aid. Rich countries are planning multi-billion dollar adaptation measures at home, but to date they have delivered just $48m to international funds for least-developed country adaptation, and have counted it as aid: an unacceptable inequity in global responses to climate change. (Oxfam, May 2007)

http://www.oxfam.org.au/media/uploads/AdaptingToClimateChange.pdf

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Africa - Up in smoke?

Oxfam, June 2005. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods that depend on the natural environment, which, in Africa, means nearly everyone. However, even without adequate support, far from being passive victims, people recognise even small changes in climate, and are taking steps to respond to them.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/9560IIED.pdf

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Africa, climate change, and the G-8 summit -Jeffrey Sachs

Daily Times (Pakistan), Thursday, March 03, 2005 . Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence. When violence erupts in water-starved regions such as Darfur, Sudan, political leaders tend to mobilise peacekeepers, international sanctions, and humanitarian aid. But Darfur needs a development strategy. Soldiers cannot keep peace among desperately hungry people.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-3-2005_pg3_5

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Africa- Up in Smoke 2 [pdf]

This is the fourth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. Following the report "Africa Up in Smoke" this is an update on the impacts of climate change in Africa produced to inform the debate around the international negotiations in 2006 in Nairobi.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10018IIED

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