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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

(Added: Thu Jan 02 2003   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 129)

Focus on the Pacific Islands: Climate Change

id21 insights. Many Pacific islands are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that sea levels will rise by between 0.09 and 0.88 metres by 2100 and continue rising after this. Higher sea levels will cause coastal flooding and have adverse effects on biodiversity, soils and water supplies. Pacific Islanders will be among the first people forced to adapt or ultimately relocate.

http://www.id21.org/insights/insights53/insights-iss53-art07.html

(Added: Thu Dec 16 2004   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 328)

Food Security and Climate Change in the South Pacific

Pacific Islanders traditional and robust local food production has significantly been eroded with urbanisation and cheap, poor quality food imports. Climate change will increase threats to food security, through its impacts on food production, health, infrastructure, the ability of countries to import food, and the ability of households to purchase food (Pacific Ecologist, 2007).

http://www.pacificecologist.org/archive/14/food-security-climate-change.pdf

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Food, Water Security Threatened by Warming, UN Panel Chief Says

(28 March 2007. Alex Morales). The loss of food and water security is one of the most immediate threats posed by global warming, the head of a United Nations panel said before publication of the most detailed report ever on the subject.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aMDOzA81PRPg&refer=latin_america

(Added: Thu Mar 29 2007   Hits: 164)

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

(Added: Wed Nov 06 2002   Modified: Wed Feb 14 2007   Hits: 161)

Front line of climate change

Nepal barely contributes to global warming, but already its farmers must adapt to survive and avoid catastrophes. The NGO Practical Action is working with vulnerable villages, helping them build dykes and set up early warning systems. It is also teaching people to grow new crops, introducing drip irrigation and water storage schemes, trying to minimise deforestation which can lead to landslides and introducing renewable energy. (John Vidal, Guardian, 2 December 2006)

http://guardian.chtah.com/a/hBFcHOOAZNtrHA0Y2FdAeJCLlH5/link52

(Added: Mon Dec 04 2006   Hits: 72)

Furthering EU Objectives on Climate Change and Clean Energy: Building partnerships with major developing economies

This study, is about the EU's engagement with major industrialized countries in the developing world. The study is a follow-up to Climate Change and Foreign Policy: An exploration of options for greater integration, which was carried out by IISD in 2006-07.(Deborah Murphy, John Drexhage, Aaron Cosbey, Dennis Tirpak and Christian Egenhofer,IISD, 2008)

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

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Future Senarios

FutureScenarios.org presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model.

http://www.futurescenarios.org/

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Future Supply Chain 2016

"Future Supply Chain 2016," a study conducted by Capgemini, looks at how supply chains will need to change to move into the future. The report covers challenges that will forces companies to alter their operations, innovations that currently exist, ways in which collaboration will be beneficial and other solutions to issues such as carbon dioxide emissions and traffic congestion.

http://www.futuresupplychain.com/downloads/

(Added: Mon Jun 09 2008   Hits: 33)

G8 Climate Scorecards 2008

This World Wild life Fund article notes that the 'G8 Climate Scorecards 2008 found that the U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming. The study also said none of the eight countries are making significant enough improvements to prevent temperature increases that would cause catastrophic climate changes.'

http://www.greenbiz.com/resources/resource/world-wildlife-fund-g8-climate-scorecards-2008

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Getting Biofuels Rights: Eight Steps for Reaping Real Environmental Benefits from Biofuels

A look at how Biofuels can help curve the dependency on oil, while helping decrease the pollutants that contribute to global warming (Save Our Environment, 2007).

http://www.saveourenvironment.org/factsheets/getting_biofuels_right-nrdc.pdf

(Added: Tue Sep 11 2007   Hits: 69)

Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century [pdf]

Since the events of September 11, 2001 and the development of the 'war on terror', western powers have cited international terrorism as the greatest threat facing the world. This has diverted attention and resources from other, more serious, likely causes of future conflict. The root causes of global insecurity must be addressed (Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda, 2006)

http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/pdf/globalthreats.pdf

(Added: Wed May 07 2008   Hits: 35)

Global warming study warns of vanishing climates

27 March 2007. James Randerson (Guardian). By the end of the century up to two fifths of the land surface of the Earth will have a hotter climate unlike anything that currently exists, according to a study that predicts the effects of global warming on local and regional climates. And in the worst case scenario, the climatic conditions on another 48% of the land surface will no longer exist on the planet at all.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2043662,00.html

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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

(Added: Mon Jun 09 2003   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 160)

Green aid: using General Budget Support for environmental benefits

Many donors are changing the way they deliver aid resources and contributing more directly to developing country budgets. However, there is a real risk that environmental considerations will be left out of these new aid delivery systems. This is a concern, given the strong links between poverty and the environment, especially with the increasing threat of climate change. (Overseas Development Institute, March 2007).

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/bp_aid_delivery_march07.pdf

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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/

(Added: Thu Jun 20 2002   Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005   Hits: 114)

Greenpeace's Climate Change Website

Excellent site providing a range of information and resources on climate cahnge, including: the latest news; climate change evidence; the problem now; solutions; and what you can do.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change

(Added: Mon Apr 08 2002   Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 167)

Greenpeace's updated Clean Energy Guide

Greenpeace has released an updated version of it's Clean Energy Guide, which ranks New Zealand's electricity companies on their contribution to climate change, both now and in the future. The updated guide encourages New Zealand consumers to switch to a cleaner electricity supplier. Switching to a cleaner electricity supplier is easy. You can make the switch simply by ringing your current power company and telling them you want to change, or online at http://www.cleanenergyguide.org.nz. The guide ranks each company that feeds into the national grid according to its current supply and future commitment to clean, renewable energy. This edition also takes into account each company's energy efficiency programmes and whether they encourage households to generate their own renewable electricity. Our last guide helped many New Zealanders switch to cleaner electricity, and helped stop Mighty River Power's Marsden B coal-fired power station.

http://www.cleanenergyguide.org.nz

(Added: Fri Jul 20 2007   Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 154)

High Oil Prices: Undermining Debt Cancellation and Fueling a New Crisis?

The rising cost of oil imports is draining far more money out of impoverished countries than debt cancellation is contributing each year. As a result, there is a very real risk that countries will be dragged further into debt. A new energy revolution is needed, one that focuses on promoting a just transition away from oil dependence and towards energy efficiency and sustainable alternatives. Global warming threatens us all, but it is impoverished countries that are most vulnerable to its impacts. (Jubilee, July 2006)

http://www.fntg.org/fntg/docs/HighOilPricesandDebtPolicyBrief.pdf

(Added: Thu Jul 13 2006   Modified: Wed Feb 14 2007   Hits: 94)

High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy

This High Level FAO Conference is to take place 3 - 5 June 2008. It will be informed by work undertaken and findings which emerge from the expert meetings and stakeholder consultations. (Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), April 2008)

http://www.fao.org/foodclimate/

(Added: Mon Apr 14 2008   Hits: 44)

Hot Profits and Global Warming: How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers And The Environment

This report identifies fundamental problems of how the current era of record oil company profits fails to deliver adequate economic or environmental results, and puts forward a five-point plan to reform the United States' energy markets, combat global warming and promote sustainable alternatives to our addiction to oil. (Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen, September 2006)

http://www.citizen.org/documents/HotProfitsGlobalWarming.pdf

(Added: Mon Sep 11 2006   Hits: 66)

Hot Topic: Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand

Using the latest evidence from the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, Gareth Renowden puts climate change into the Aotearoa NZ context. He examines the science of climate change in Aotearoa NZ and our options for adaptation and mitigation (Gareth Renowden, August 2007).

http://hot-topic.co.nz/

(Added: Fri Oct 12 2007   Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 96)

How the World Bank's energy framework sells the climate and poor people

The April 2006 version of World Bank's clean energy investment framework is based on scenarios for global greenhouse gas emissions at levels that would allow "dangerous climate change" as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The framework also promotes additional funding for energy technologies that have negative social and environmental impacts, and that will in many cases further contribute to climate change. The framework does not catalyze the necessary massive shift to renewable energy technologies that could create the double dividend of environmental benefits and poverty reduction. The framework's "business as usual" approach will not adequately address climate change, and will continue to keep more than one billion poor people in the dark. (FOE et al, September 2006)

http://www.foe.org/camps/intl/EnergyReportDraft091406.pdf

(Added: Fri Sep 22 2006   Modified: Fri Sep 29 2006   Hits: 74)

How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

This is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by: Stages of Denial; Scientific Topics; Types of Argument; and Levels of Sophistication. (Cory Beck, Grist, 2006)

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

(Added: Thu Nov 02 2006   Hits: 73)

Human Development Report 2007

Human Development Report 2007/2008 looks at Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (UNDP, 2007)

http://hdr.undp.org/en/

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