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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

(Added: Mon Aug 22 2005   Modified: Mon Nov 19 2007   Hits: 234)

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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AID/WATCH

AID/WATCH is a not for profit activist organisation monitoring and campaigning on Australian overseas aid and trade policies and programs. They work to ensure aid-funding reaches the right people, communities and their environments.

http://www.aidwatch.org.au/

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Aiding oil, harming the climate : A Database of Public Funds for Fossil Fuels (pdf)

This report describes the role of the World Bank and other international financial institutions have in reshaping the oil sectors in developing countries and providing development assistance to finance their operations. (Oil Change International, December 2007)

http://www.endoilaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/aidingoilreport.pdf

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An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (PDF)

There is substantial evidence to indicate that significant global warming will occur during the 21st century. Because changes have been gradual so far, and are projected to be similarly gradual in the future, the effects of global warming have the potential to be manageable for most nations. Recent research, however, suggests that there is a possibility that this gradual global warming could lead to a relatively abrupt slowing of the ocean's thermohaline conveyor, which could lead to harsher winter weather conditions, sharply reduced soil moisture, and more intense winds in certain regions that currently provide a significant fraction of the world's food production. With inadequate preparation, the result could be a significant drop in the human carrying capacity of the Earth's environment (PDF 913Kb).

http://www.greenpeace.org/multimedia/download/1/417492/0/pentagon-on-climate-change.pdf

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An Inconvenient Truth

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. The website of Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' is both terrifying and inspiring.

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

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AN OVERVIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE: What does it mean for our way of life? What is the best future we can hope for?

This paper discusses whether climate change will require a significant reduction of consumption among the richer people in the world, and ends with the most optimistic picture the author can conjure up, of the world in the year 2075. That hopeful picture is of a world in which inequalities - among and within nations - have been substantially reduced. The challenges and adjustments confronting humanity in the coming decades provide an opportunity that could be used to mitigate climate change in ways that can improve the circumstances of the poor (Neva Goodwin, Global Development and Environment Institute, March 2008).

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/08-01OverviewOfClimateChange.pdf

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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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Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat

The Arctic Council is a forum for indigenous Arctic peoples' organisations. A key area of concern for Arctic peoples is climate change; this website presents information on the impacts of climate change upon indigenous peoples in the Arctic region.

http://www.arcticpeoples.org/keyissues/ClimateChange/Start

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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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Assessing the Security Implications of Climate Change for West Africa: Country case studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso [pdf]

Prepared by Oli Brown and Alec Crawford, this report investigates the impacts of climate change on security in West Africa at the country level. It sets out scenarios for the future security implications of climate change and identifies particular flash point issues that domestic authorities and external actors should bear in mind when designing development programs (Oli Brown and Alec Crawford, iisd, 2008).

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2008/security_implications_west_africa.pdf

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Assessment of the World Food Security Situation 2005

Committee on World Food Security, Thirty-first Session Rome, 23-26 May 2005. Armed conflicts are now the leading cause of world hunger with the effects of HIV/AIDS and climate change not far behind, according to an FAO report presented today at a meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The report warned that the goal of reducing the number of the world's hungry by half by the year 2015, set by the World Food Summit in 1996 and reinforced by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, are almost certain to be missed by a wide margin if current trends persist. However, the goal of cutting the proportion of hungry and poor, the so-called MDG1, may be achieved in most regions with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/009/J4968e/j4968e00.htm#P104_13134

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At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction and Environment in the Tropical Forests

Preserving the world's rapidly shrinking tropical forests and improving the economic prospects of millions of poor people requires an urgent strengthening of national forest governance. Globally, this calls for strong financial incentives. But current carbon markets do not tap the potential benefits of forest carbon. The report reviews the obstacles impeding the use of global carbon finance to reduce deforestation, and offers workable solutions. (World Bank, 23 October 2006)

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPRRS/EXTTROPICALFOREST/0,,contentMDK:21092971~pagePK:64168098~piPK:64168032~theSitePK:2463874,00.html

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Australia PM pledges climate plan

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced a shift in policy on climate change, promising to set up a carbon trading scheme to cut pollution (BBC News, 4 June 2007).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6716429.stm

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Biofuels, Agriculture and Poverty Reduction

Biofuels have been hailed as a solution to climate change and a way to reduce poverty. Some researchers argue that by successfully entering the biofuel market, developing countries can create jobs, boost incomes and so increase food security. This article questions whether biofuels are sustainable. (Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 2007)

http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/NRP107.pdf

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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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Bush covers up climate research: White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming

Sunday September 21, 2003: White House officials have undermined their own government scientists' research into climate change to play down the impact of global warming, an investigation by The Observer can reveal. The disclosure will anger environment campaigners who claim that efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being sabotaged because of President George W. Bush's links to the oil industry. Emails and internal government documents obtained by The Observer show that officials have sought to edit or remove research warning that the problem is serious. They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1046363,00.html

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Bush's Trade Barriers to Climate Success

President Bush announced his international development agenda at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, where he made headlines for declaring that the world's wealthiest countries should talk about climate change. An atmospheric scientist who analyzes the language of political discourse shares his perspective on what was said (and not said) in Bush's proposal. (Joe Brewer, Common Dreams, 4 June 2007)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/04/1659/

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Calculate Your Personal Carbon Count

The carbon-based life form calculator is an easy way to estimate personal carbon dioxide emissions. We are all carbon-based life forms in more ways than one. Our use of fossil fuels leads to the emission of carbon dioxide, a key contributor to global climate change. Use the form below to estimate your contribution to climate change.

http://www.bestfootforward.com/carbonlife.htm

(Added: Mon Aug 18 2003   Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 506)

Carbon Capture and Storage -Solution to Climate Change?

Technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS) are gaining more and more acceptance as a solution for carbon protection along with the use of renewable energies and energy efficiency and increasing fossil fuel production in the form of enhanced oil recovery, contributing to the generation of revenue. This paper presents the current set of players of the CCS debate, as well as their rationale. CCS is compared in brief with other climate protection options, concentrating on renewable energies. Discussion of national and international importance of CCS is followed by the last section. (Niko Supersberger, Andrea Esken, Manfred Fischedick and Dietmar Schüber Wuppertal Institute, Research Group on Energy, and Mobility Structures, September 2006)

http://www.wupperinst.org/uploads/tx_wibeitrag/CCS-KyotoPlus.pdf

(Added: Sun Oct 15 2006   Modified: Fri Jan 12 2007   Hits: 60)

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

Provides data on global carbon dioxide levels, including trace gas emissions and atmospheric concentration, ocean chemistry, vegetation response, climate, land-use, ecosystems and coastal hazards.

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/

(Added: Thu Aug 30 2001   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 172)

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

(Added: Sun Feb 23 2003   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 186)

Carbon Market

Carbon Market is an innovative online market place where you can find a wide range of low carbon emission products and services from a large number of suppliers and retailers.

http://www.carbonmarket.com.au/index.php

(Added: Thu Oct 25 2007   Hits: 144)

Carbon Monitoring for Action - CARMA

Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a massive database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide.

http://carma.org/

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