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With Eyes Wide Shut: Climate Change Threatens the Future of Humanity, but we Refuse to Respond Rationally

By George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday August 12, 2003. We live in a dream world. With a small, rational part of the brain, we recognise that our existence is governed by material realities, and that, as those realities change, so will our lives. But underlying this awareness is the deep semi-consciousness that absorbs the moment in which we live, then generalises it, projecting our future lives as repeated instances of the present. This, not the superficial world of our reason, is our true reality. All that separates us from the indigenous people of Australia is that they recognise this and we do not.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0812-08.htm

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Antarctic's weird worms face warming threat

Climate change could imperil the unique creatures which have made their home in the inhospitable waters of Antarctica, scientists believe. The sealife which has developed there resembles some life forms around North America and Europe millions of years ago. But global warming could allow predators from warmer seas to colonise the Antarctic. If that happens, a highly sensitive sea floor community could vanish, the scientists say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3065873.stm

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Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor

(World Bank) Climate variability and climate change are serious threats to poverty eradication. While climate change will have global impacts, poor countries and poor people will be most vulnerable because of their high dependence on natural resources that are directly impacted by climate change, their limited capacity -- human, institutional, and financial -- to cope, and, in some cases, their geographical location. Together, with nine other bilateral and multilateral agencies, the Bank is in the process of preparing a paper to initiate a global dialog on how to integrate climate variability and climate change into development. A consultative draft of this paper Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor, 2002 was launched at the Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate change in New Delhi.

http://web.worldbank.org/servlets/ECR?contentMDK=20480614&sitePK=406964

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Global warming's sooty smokescreen revealed

Smoke is clouding our view of global warming, protecting the planet from perhaps three-quarters of the greenhouse effect. That might sound like good news, but experts say that as the cover diminishes in coming decades, we are in for a dramatic escalation of warming that could be two or even three times as great as official best guesses. This was the dramatic conclusion reached last week at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin, where top atmospheric scientists got together, including Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin, former chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993798

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Climate Variability and Change and Sea-level Rise in the Pacific Islands Region (PDF)

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2003. This Resource Book has been written to provide policy- and decision-makers in Pacific Island Countries with a coherent, authoritative and readily accessible body of knowledge and resource materials that characterise the region's resilience and vulnerability to climate and sea-level variability and change and identify a suite of proven and potential response options that are deserving of further consideration and implementation. Its second objective is to provide educators, outreach and related practitioners with an integrated and functional resource portfolio for use in formal education and professional development programmes and in support of efforts to enhance political and public awareness of the implications of global and regional variability and change for the Pacific Islands Region. The Book comprises four main sections, reflecting the four principal dimensions of the climate issue - the changing climate, the observed and potential impacts, and the two broad categories of policy responses and actions, namely mitigation and adaptation. SPREP is publishing the book in collaboration with the Global Environment Bureau of the Japan Ministry of the Environment, which funded the whole project. The book will be available in the first quarter of 2003. This prepublication Web version is made available as a service to those interested in the subject.

http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sprep/Climate_Change_Web/Index.htm

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Rising rivers set to wreck Bangladesh

Arguments over the causes of global warming will bring little succour to the people of Bangladesh. Flooding in the country is set to increase by up to 40 per cent this century as global temperatures rise, the latest climate models suggest.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993605

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Carbon Emissions Climbing

The Earth Policy Institute reports that although economic growth slowed throughout much of the world during 2001, world carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billion tons.

http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator5.htm

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Collision Course: Free trade's free ride on the global climate (PDF)

By Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation (2000). Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change. (id21)

http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/doc_1011200072237_3192%20text.art.pdf

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Fishing in Troubled Waters

In Southern India's Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, 200,000 people -- a third of the population -- earn their living directly from the sea. Untouched by the mechanics of hydrocarbon-driven industrialization, artisanal fisherfolk across coastal communities take the full blast of the impact of climate change.

http://www.indiatogether.org/opinions/lalisri/ls1202.htm

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Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate (Available online in PDF)

WRI (2002) ISBN: 1-56973-524-7 Kevin A. Baumert with Odile Blanchard, Silvi Llosa and James Perkaus. Since 1997, debates over global climate change policy have focused narrowly on the Kyoto Protocol-an international treaty to control greenhouse gas emissions that are trapping heat in the atmosphere. Looking ahead, a wide range of other options need to be considered to promote long-term climate protection and bridge the growing divide among nations over how to take action. This compilation explores some of the best alternatives. Seventeen contributors from nine countries offer analyses of options for strengthening the climate protection treaties. They confront the most persistent challenge of climate protection-designing solutions that include both developed and developing countries. The options examined range from the well-known to the novel. Indeed, some approaches put forth in this book have never before been examined in print. Also included is a quantitative comparison of three approaches to differentiating climate commitments across countries.

http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_pdf.cfm?PubID=3762

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The End of Development? Global warming, disasters and the great reversal of human progress

Publishers: NEF, Author(s): Jonathan Walter and Andrew Simms, Publication Date: 2002. This report by the editor of the World Disasters Report and the New Economics Foundation's Policy Director argues that human development faces potentially the biggest u-turn in its history. After decades of painfully slow human advancement, global warming and bad development threaten a great reversal of human progress. A new model is needed, in which every policy decision must answer one key question: will this increase or decrease vulnerability in the face of an increasingly unstable world?

http://www.neweconomics.org/default.asp?strRequest=pubs&strContext=pubdetails&intPubID=119

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Argentinean Climate Change Office

Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable: Cambio Climático

http://www.ambiente.gov.ar/?idseccion=29

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International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) is a research programme that studies the phenomenon of Global Change. The vision of IGBP is to provide scientific knowledge to improve the sustainability of the living Earth. IGBP studies the interactions between biological, chemical and physical processes and interactions with human systems and collaborates with other programmes to develop and impart the understanding necessary to respond to global change.

http://www.igbp.kva.se/

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International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

IHDP is an international, interdisciplinary and non-governmental research programme, aiming at "the development and integration of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change".

http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/

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World Climate Research Programme

The World Climate Research Programme was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO since 1993. The objectives of the programme are to develop the fundamental scientific understanding of the physical climate system and climate processes needed to determine to what extent climate can be predicted and the extent of human influence on climate. The programme encompasses studies of the global atmosphere, oceans, sea and land ice, and the land surface which together constitute the Earth's physical climate system. WCRP studies are specifically directed to provide scientifically founded quantitative answers to the questions being raised on climate and the range of natural climate variability, as well as to establish the basis for predictions of global and regional climatic variations and of changes in the frequency and severity of extreme events.

http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/wcrp-home.html

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Forest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations

18 October 2002- NEW DELHI and WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the next major meeting on global climate change opens in New Delhi next week, a potentially controversial report concludes that deals to counteract the carbon emissions of smokestack industries could benefit more than the environment. The report reveals that carbon-trading deals in forestry could sharply reduce poverty among the rural poor, while also providing businesses with an inexpensive way to "off-set" their carbon emissions.

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/OccPapers/OP-037.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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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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The Indigenous Environmental Network

The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.

http://www.ienearth.org/

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Greenhouse Emissions Policy Timing

A Review of Reports by NZIER and the Centre for International Economics, prepared by Geoff Bertram (Victoria University) and Simon Terry Associates Ltd, for the Aotearoa New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development.

http://www.med.govt.nz/ers/environment/ghgpolicy/bertram/

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Ministry of Economic Development (Aotearoa New Zealand)

Climate change page on the Ministry of Economic Development's website, with links to relevant public documents.

http://www.med.govt.nz/ers/environment/climate/

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Oxfam New Zealand

Oxfam New Zealand works with communities in developing countries to overcome poverty and injustice by addressing the causes of inequality and powerlessness, and building the capacity of our partners to advocate for change. In New Zealand we campaign against injustice to influence governments and international institutions. Oxfam New Zealand is an independent secular organisation, working with all people regardless of race or religion. Oxfam New Zealand has no religious or political affiliations. Oxfam believes that poverty is almost always rooted in human action or inaction. It can be made worse by natural calamities, human violence, oppression and environmental destruction. It is maintained by entrenched inequalities and institutional and economic mechanisms.

http://www.oxfam.org.nz/

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New Zealand Climate Change Programme

This is your gateway into the work of the New Zealand Climate Change Programme, an interdepartmental team involving 10 Government departments and one Crown agency. How New Zealand should respond to the global challenge of climate change is the key objective of this team.

http://www.climatechange.govt.nz

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Climate Change 2001 (AR3): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change, and the potential consequences of climate change, are assessed in the report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. This report builds upon the past assessment reports of the IPCC, reexamining key conclusions of the earlier assessments and incorporating results from more recent research. Download Summaries for Policymakers (SPM) and Technical Summaries (TS) in PDF.

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/index.htm

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