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If you go down to the woods today...

To stop further climate change, rather than stop the flow of oil, coal and gas, the offset industry tells us that we can continue as normal. We can drive as much as want, fly as much as we want, and eat our non-organic Coldplay mangoes in the Canadian winter. We need not reduce; in fact we can now consume our way out of the problem. Now we can buy trees and thus 'neutralize' our impacts. It is a seductive argument. But it is a falsehood - a con. (Adam Ma'ani, New Internationalist, July 2006)

http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/01/keynote/

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In Dead Water: Merging of climate change with pollution, over-harvest and infestations in the world's fishing grounds

In this report, the locations of the most productive fishing grounds in the World - from shallow, coastal waters to the deep and high seas - are compared to projected scenarios of climate change, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, intensity of fisheries, land-based pollution, increase of invasive species infestations and growth in coastal development(UNEP, February 2008).

http://www.unep.org/pdf/InDeadWater_LR.pdf

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In-Depth: Gathering Storm - the humanitarian impact of climate change

An in depth report from IRIN on the humanitarian impacts of Climate Change (IRIN,June 2008)

http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=73&ReportId=78246

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Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Climate Change [pdf]

The paper argues that often policymakers neglect the ingenuity that indigenous and traditional peoples have to offer to address climate change issues, even though they are amongst the most vulnerable. (World Conservation Union (IUCN), March 2008)

http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/indigenous_peoples_climate_change.pdf

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Intellectual Property and Access to Clean Energy Technologies in Developing Countries

An Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic, Biofuel and Wind Technologies. This paper examines the role of intellectual property rights in the ability of developing countries to use cleaner energy sources (John H. Barton, ICTSD, December 2007).

http://www.trade-environment.org/page/ictsd/projects/BARTON_DEC_2007.pdf

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Inter-Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action

(Small Island Developing States Network) Coverage of the Inter-Regional Meeting held in Nassau, The Bahamas, 26-30 January, 2004. Contians press releases, position papers and other resources.

http://www.sidsnet.org/Mauritius2004/Regional_Meetings/Bahamas.html

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Inter-Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA)

(Linkages) Nassau, Bahamas, 26-30 January 2004. In 2002, the United Nations General Assembly called for a comprehensive review of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA). Adopted in 1994, the BPoA sets forth specific actions and measures at the national, regional, and international levels in support of the sustainable development of the small island developing States (SIDS). In August/September 2004, an International Meeting is scheduled to take place in Mauritius to discuss recommendations for further implementation of the BPoA. Regional preparatory meetings held in 2003 for the International Meeting highlighted actions taken and the challenges faced in the implementation of BPoA. The Inter-regional Preparatory Meeting in Nassau aims to produce a consolidated position of SIDS from all regions, which will be further considered at a 3-day preparatory session for the International Meeting held during the 12th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in April 2004. This webpage has extensive coverage of the meeting including links, agendas, reports, photos and RealAudio.

http://www.iisd.ca/sids/bpoa10/bahamasprep/

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UNEP and WMO. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out research nor does it monitor climate related data or other relevant parameters. It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature.

http://www.ipcc.ch/

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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 Global Change Institute

The (IGCI) International Global Change Institute's goal is to integrate knowledge on the natural and human dimensions of global environmental change for use in policy development and decision-making. It is a self-funding unit within the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand).

http://www.climsystems.com/site/home/

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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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Inuit Observations on Climate Change

International Institute for Sustainable Development. On Banks Island in Canada's High Arctic, Inuvialuit hunters and trappers have a close relationship with the natural world. Given the dramatic changes that local people have observed, IISD and the Hunters and Trappers Committee of Sachs Harbour initiated a year-long project to document the problem of Arctic climate change and communicate it to Canadian and international audiences. The project team worked in partnership with specialists from five organizations to develop an innovative method for recording and sharing local observations on climate change.

http://iisd1.iisd.ca/casl/projects/inuitobs.htm

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Investing in sustainability: An interview with Al Gore and David Blood

Investing in sustainability: An interview with Al Gore and David Blood The former vice president and his partner in an investment-management firm argue that sustainability investing is essential to creating long-term shareholder value. As McKinsey research indicates, executives around the world increasingly recognize that the creation of long-term shareholder value depends on a corporation's ability to understand and respond to increasingly intense demands from society.1 No surprise, then, that the topic of socially responsible investing has been gaining ground as investors seek to incorporate concepts like sustainability and responsible corporate behavior into their assessments of a company's long-term value. (Lenny T. Mendonca and Jeremy Oppenheim, McKinsey & Company, 12 May 2007).

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sati07051201.htm

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Kyoto Protocol

Website for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.

http://unfccc.int/cop4/kp/kp.html

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Life on the Edge of a Warming World

In recent years, while governments around the globe have been prevaricating over carbon emission policies and scientists arguing over the existence of global warming, the arctic has been melting. To the native Inuits of Northern Canada, the United States, Russia and Greenland, global warming is a reality, not a series of hypothetical scenarios. Since the millennium they have seen their landscape, their livelihood and their very cultural identity eroded at such an alarming rate that they now look set to become the first society to fall victim to climate change in the 21st century. (Claire Kendall, Ecologist, 1 June 2006)

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=635

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Livelihoods and Climate Change

IISD. In an effort to encourage the use of ecosystem management and restoration activities in climate change adaptation strategies, IUCN, IISD, SEI-B and Intercooperation have produced a series of Information Papers to highlight successful examples of where such activities have decreased community vulnerability to climate-related hazards such as droughts and floods.

http://www.iisd.org/security/es/resilience/climate.asp

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Lunchtime Panel Discussion - How Do We Decarbonize the World?

The Institute of Policy Studies and the Climate Change Research Institute at the School of Government of Victoria University will hold a lunchtime panel discussion on how to decarbonize the world on 5th June, 2008 at Lecture Theatre 1, Rutherford House, Lambton Quay

http://ips.ac.nz/events/Upcoming%20events/index.html

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Making preservation pay

This article explains the Kyoto II concept, which suggests that as we reduce our national emissions polluters should pay at the point of production, not the point of use. In the case of fossil fuels, the point of production is where they are sucked or mined from the ground. Which means that the people paying would be power companies with investments around the globe, helping to dispel the myth that the UK is responsible for only 2 per cent of global emissions. (Oliver Tickell, Ecologist, 18 January 2007)

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=712

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Making voluntary carbon markets work better for the poor: the case of forestry offsets

The volume of private finance flowing through the voluntary carbon market has increased significantly over recent years, with an eight-fold rise from around five million to 43 million dollars between 2004 and 2005 alone (Capoor and Ambrosi 2006). A significant proportion of these funds is destined for the developing world. What is likely to happen to all this money? Will it be used to the benefit of the developing world, providing new opportunities for growth and poverty reduction, or will it be used to satisfy commercial and industrial interests in the north, to the detriment of southern interests? (ODI, November 2006)

http://www.odi.org.uk/fecc/resources/briefing-papers/0611_voluntarycarbonmarkets.pdf

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Marketing and Making Carbon Dumps: Commodification, Calculation and Counterfactuals in Climate Mitigation (PDF)

By Larry Lohmann. The Corner House, 2005. UK environmenal journalist George Monbiot has described this article as "Perhaps the best paper I have read on any aspect of climate change". In 1992, the United Nations promulgated a Framework Convention on Climate Change. The resulting Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16 February 2005. Binding more than 30 industrialised countries to modest emission reduction targets, it also instituted a worldwide trade in emissions permits and credits. But the Protocol and associated schemes are not designed to do what any constructive approach to global warming must do: check the upward flow of fossil carbon into the atmosphere, oceans, soil and vegetation. Instead, they grant lucrative rights to this global carbon dump to heavy fossil fuel users while attempting, against the best scientific wisdom, to develop speculative new carbon dumps -- also for elite use. This paper argues that this approach is confused, regressive and divisive. It is squandering science and technology on scientifically-impossible programmes while taking the climate issue out of the hands of the public and sowing the seeds of future social conflict.

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

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Measures to curb the climate change impacts of aviation

In 2000, aviation was responsible for 4 to 9 per cent of the climate change impact of global human activity. This paper looks at ways its impacts can be curbed, finding that only a comprehensive policy-mix will do the job. (Climate Action Network Europe, October 2006)

http://www.transportenvironment.org/docs/Publications/2006/2006-10_can-e_te_position_paper_aviation_impacts.pdf

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Meltdown: how long does the Arctic have?

In this article Jonathan Leake argues that 'New evidence suggests that the Arctic ice cap could disappear in summer within the next five years, leaving environmentalists in despair but oil men delighted.'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4232375.ece

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Military vs. Climate Security

Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore called on the nations of the world to mobilize to avert climate disaster "with a sense of urgency and shared resolve that has previously been seen only when nations have mobilized for war." This report measures in fiscal terms how far the US has to go to reach that goal. (Miriam Pemberton, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2008)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/military%20vs%20climate%20security-final.pdf

(Added: Mon Feb 04 2008   Hits: 104)

Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest To Be Saved In Groundbreaking Deal

A deal has been agreed that will place a financial value on rainforests - paying, for the first time, for their upkeep as "utilities" that provide vital services such as rainfall generation, carbon storage and climate regulation (The Independent, 27 March 2008).

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/27/7923/

(Added: Fri Mar 28 2008   Hits: 26)

Ministry for the Environment- Manatu Mo Te Taiao

The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment is charged with developing New Zealand's policies on climate change.

http://www.mfe.govt.nz/

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