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The right to development in a climate constrained world : the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

What is The Greenhouse Development Rights framework? This paper argues that an emergency climate program is needed, that such a program is only possible if the international climate policy impasse is broken, and that this impasse arises from the inherent but surmountable conflict between the climate crisis and the development crisis (EcoEquity & Stockholm Environment Institute, 2007).

http://www.ecoequity.org/docs/TheGDRsFramework.pdf

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The Role of the Clean Development Mechanism - Now and in the Future

This paper presents the evolution of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and its present state, and conclusions that can be derived for its future development. The first part briefly describes the emergence of the CDM while the second part addresses the future of the CDM and its possible role in the future climate regime post-2012. CDM is expected to continue its key role in the future climate regime as this is in the interest of key actors. (Lars Friberg, Gudrun Benecke and Miriam Schröder, Kyoto Plus, September 2006)

http://www2.kyotoplus.org/uploads/friberg_etal_fin.pdf

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The Threat to the Planet

There is no doubt that if human beings follow a business-as-usual course, continuing to exploit fossil fuel resources without reducing carbon emissions or capturing and sequestering them before they warm the atmosphere, the eventual effects on climate and life may be comparable to those at the time of mass extinctions. Life will survive, but it will do so on a transformed, desolate planet. Despite this, scientists present the facts about climate change clinically, failing to stress the profound effects that are already occurring. The media, despite an overwhelming scientific consensus concerning global warming, give equal time to fringe "contrarians" supported by the fossil fuel industry. This article, along with reviewing recent books on the subjects, outlines the causes and effects of climate change, and the urgency of taking immediate action at the government as well as the individual level. (Jim Hansen, New York Reviiew of Books, 13 June 2006)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131

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The Tyndall Centre

The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders, policy advisors, the media and the public in general.

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/

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The view from the summit - Gleneagles G8 one year on

One year has passed since the G8 summit in Gleneagles in July 2005, where 36 million people in over 70 countries united under the Global Call to Action against Poverty. As the Russian G8 approaches, this paper explores progress (or the lack thereof) since the G8 in Gleneagles in the areas of debt, aid, conflict, trade, and climate change. (Oxfam, June 2006)

http://oxfam.intelli-direct.com/e/d.dll?m=234&url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/downloads/g8_gleneagles_oneyear.pdf

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The Woods Hole Research Center

The Woods Hole Research Center addresses the great issues of environment through scientific research and education and through applications of science in public affairs. Climate change and the warming of the earth are at the core of our research, and we specialize in global forests because of their controlling influence on climate. The Center maintains continuing research projects in the tropical forests of Brazil and Central Africa, in the boreal forest of Siberia - the largest forested region on earth - and in the forests of our own New England. Our Policy Program works in the international arena to foster agreement on ways to safeguard the health of the planet. The treaty on climate change, now ratified by over 160 nations, was drafted by Center staff. We are also involved in the implementation of the treaty on biodiversity. The World Commission on Forests, established in 1995 through our initiative, is defining ways of defending global forests as a public trust. Our Education Program involves training the coming leaders of environmental science in Brazil and Russia and post-doctoral research by American scholars.

http://www.whrc.org/

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The World Bank's Climate Investment Funds: Still Fueling Global Warming [pdf]

The World Bank plans to reinvent itself as the world's leader on climate and development. It has proposed at least two new "Climate Investment Funds" to help "developing countries to address urgent climate change challenges." But a closer look at these funds reveals that the Bank would continue to fund greenhouse gas emissions, while re-branding its business as usual as "transformational, low-carbon" technologies. (Friends of the Earth, May 2008)

http://www.foe.org/pdf/CIF_Factsheet.pdf

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The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization:

As the ninth meeting of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) draws to a close in Bonn, Germany the world's governments are set to unanimously agree a wide-ranging "de-facto moratorium" on ocean fertilization activities.

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=694

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Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance

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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Tiempo: A bulletin on climate and development - Issue 59, April 2006

This issue of Tiempo includes articles on: the assimilation of gender issues in the climate change debate; the International Year of Deserts and Desertification; climate change impacts on fisheries in Malawi; adaptive capacity in Bangladesh; the global distribution of low coastal zone settlements; the latest news on the climate negotiations and climate events world-wide. (International Institute for Environment and Development, April 2006)

http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/latest.htm

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Tourism feels the heat of global warming

This article offers some explanations as to why travel and tourism leaders are now feverishly working at the climate change front. It considers the idea that governments should rethink tourism as a development solution and offer alternatives to tourism in order to at least reduce the over-dependency on this industry in developing countries(Third World Network, October 2007).

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/ttcd/Anita-Climate%20change-FINAL(oct07).doc

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Trends in sustainable development

This report looks at progress in sustainable development, focusing on four areas: energy for sustainable development, industrial development, atmosphere and pollution, and climate change. (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, April 2006)

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/trends2006/trends_rpt2006.pdf

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Triggering Abrupt Climate Change

A highly readable article by Dr. Robert B. Gagosian of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the processes of abrupt climate change and the need for awareness of its potential impact.

http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/images/Abruptclimatechange.pdf

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Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (PDF)

edited by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada, Centre for Civil Society (South Africa) and Transnational Institute (The Netherlands), 2005. This report provides a compilation of articles and analysis of the global carbon market from a climate justice perspective. It also provides more detail on the practical threats to public well-being and climatic stability arising from the growing fashion for carbon trading. It focuses in particular on the disturbing record of South African "carbon-saving" projects and their role in shoring up a destructive oil economy with a record of harm to African people. The report supplies overviews of the problems with pollution trading and South Africa's energy system and includes background about carbon trading's US origins, its colonialist consequences, and its ineffectiveness in contributing to climate change mitigation. In particular, the volume boasts rich empirical studies of the fraudulence, injustice or failure of various carbon-trading projects planned for South Africa under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism with the assistance of the World Bank and other agencies.

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/trouble.pdf

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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. But for every genuine reformer, there are half a dozen who are simply greenwashing their existing practices. This site, by George Monbiot, 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.

http://www.turnuptheheat.org/

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Tuvalu Association of NGOs

TANGOS is a community-based organization that encourages and assists NGOs in their work to enable human development within Tuvalu. TANGO encourages this to be undertaken in a sustainable manner, ensuring the long-term survival of their own organization and any projects in which it assists. TANGO seeks to ensure transparency and accountability for the activities for TANGO and other members of the civil society and offers leadership to NGOs by example and guidance.

http://tuvalutango.org/default.aspx

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Tuvalu seeks help in US global warming lawsuit

SOUTH AFRICA: August 30, 2002 JOHANNESBURG - The Pacific island state of Tuvalu wants to enlist Caribbean and Indian Ocean nations in a planned lawsuit blaming the United States and Australia for global warming that could sink them beneath the waves. Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu said this week that Tuvalu, a chain of nine coral atolls whose highest point is just four metres (13 feet) above sea level, expects to be ready to launch formal legal action against both within a year. "We are fighting a giant," he told Reuters during the Earth Summit in Johannesburg of a plan to take on the United States, the outline of which was unveiled in March. "It is one of the few options we have." He said he was lobbying other low-lying nations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development join it in lawsuits.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17514/story.htm

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U.S.-Australia Partnership on Climate Change Presses Forward

The State Department issued a joint press statement July 9 announcing that the governments of the United States and Australia had agreed to a work program under the U.S.-Australia Climate Action Partnership that will cover 19 projects. The U.S.-Australia Climate Action Partnership was announced in February of this year.

http://usembassy.state.gov/tokyo/wwwhgl0425.html

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UN tourism agency meets to build support on climate change

More than 100 government ministers met in November 2007 at a United Nations-organized tourism summit to consider ratifying a declaration on climate change that has been recommended by environmental experts. The so-called Davos Declaration, reached in October 2007 urges the tourism industry to "rapidly respond to climate change, within the evolving UN framework, if it is to grow in a sustainable manner." (UN News Centre, 13 November 2007)

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24636&Cr=climate&Cr1=change

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Uncertainty, Irreversibility, Precaution and the Social Cost of Carbon

In this paper we explore issues concerning the considerable uncertainty that surrounds many of the elements needed for a calculation of the social cost of carbon. Section 2 reviews how uncertainty and risk have been incorporated into the calculation of the social cost of carbon, and the difference between the social cost of carbon if explicit account is taken of uncertainties as opposed to ignoring such uncertainties. Section 3 turns to the main issues of uncertainty, irreversibility, learning and the precautionary principle. We show that there are fundamental ambiguities in how we should expect these would affect the social cost of carbon, and these are reflected in the empirical results obtained so far, though we also argue that the particular models used have perhaps understated what should be the impact on the social cost of carbon. Section 4 reviews the attempts that have been made to assess the implications of uncertainty, irreversibility, learning and precaution in the context of empirical models of climate change. These studies suggest that the prospect of getting better information (earlier resolution of uncertainty) should lead to a reduction in current abatement levels, although these effects are small. The issue of catastrophic effects is taken up in section 5. The outcome of what happens when there is a risk of a catastrophe and when there is not depends substantially on the model used and how it might be assessed. The issue of whether conventional cost-benefit analysis, in particular the use of expected utility maximisation, is appropriate for assessing uncertainties about climate change is addressed in various sections of the paper.

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/working_papers/wp37_summary.shtml

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UNFCCC Technology Information Clearinghouse (TT:CLEAR)

TT:CLEAR is a non-commercial web site aiming at promoting the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

http://ttclear.unfccc.int/

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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali

The Conference took place at the Bali and brought together more than 10,000 participants, including representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the media. The conference culminated in the adoption of the Bali roadmap, which charts the course for a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 that will ultimately lead to a post-2012 international agreement on climate change. (UNFCCC, December 2007)

http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been on the World Wide Web since 1995. This new "third generation" website, updates and consolidates information from the previous site and adds several new features and resources.

http://unfccc.int/

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Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific

The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world's population, around four billion people, live. This, the fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, asks will global warming send Asia and the Pacific 'Up in Smoke'? (IIED, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10020IIED

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Up in Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean

Climate Change is already hitting Latin America and the Caribbean and this is increasing the vulnerability of poor communities. This 48-page report looks at the climate change impacts, how these affect the poor, and at the measures being taken by governments and society, to reduce the causes of climate change. The supporting organisations of this report are: Progressio (formerly CIIR), ActionAid International, Christian Aid, Tearfund, nef (the new economics foundation), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, CAFOD, RSPB, WWF, IIED (the International Institute for Environment and Development), Practical Action (formerly ITDG), people & planet, Columban Faith and Justice, Operation Noah, teri Europe, Medact, BirdLife International and WorldVision. These agencies have on-the-ground experience of working with communities whose fragile existences, and the ecosystems in which they live, are being further threatened by global warming. (Andrew Simms, Hannah Reid, IIED, September 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/10017IIED.pdf

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