FOCUS ON: Climate Change Perspectives
Author: Mosaiko EditorPosted on: Oct 16th 2009
Why Should Young People Inherit a World where climate change increasingly compromises?
Human activity-generated emissions have reversed an Arctic cooling trend, leading to global warming unmatched for 2,000 years, world leaders are negotiating an action framework to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This international agreement, aimed at stabilizing the greenhouse gas emissions which accelerate global warming, will expire in 2012. We have reached a pivotal moment in the climate challenge, and what we decide to do now will have a profound and lasting impact on our nation and our planet.
In this month’s FOCUS, experts from key nations around the world ponder the conditions that climate change and global warming present in their regions. They discuss what is being done within their countries to address climate change mitigation and adaptation and how they envision mutually beneficial international partnerships. These issues will be considered in-depth at the December 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 15th Conference of Parties (COP15). The goal is a viable agreement that satisfies the nearly 200 countries concerned.
Additional Resources
Articles
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Chen, A. Anthony. “The Climate Studies Group Mona.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 3 (September 2008): pp. 85-91.
De Boer, Yvo. “Informal Ministerial Meeting: Bali Brunch 2009.” Washington, D.C., Address, April 26, 2009. http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/statements/application/ pdf/090426_speech_balibrunch.pdf
Hasselmann, Klaus, and Terry Barker. “The Stern Review and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Implications for Interaction between Policymakers and Climate Experts.” Climatic Change, vol. 89, nos. 3-4 (August 2008): pp. 219-229.
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Kraemer, R. Andreas. “What Price Energy Transformation?” Survival, vol. 50, no. 3 (June/July 2008), pp. 11-18.
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Monastersky, Richard. “Climate Crunch: A Burden beyond Bearing.” Nature, vol. 458, no. 7242 (April 30, 2009): pp. 1091-1094.
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Pan, Jiahua, et al. “Environmental Targets and Policies in China: Effectiveness and Challenges.” Canadian Foreign Policy, vol. 13, no. 2 (2006): pp. 133 (13 pages).
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Specter, Michael. “Big Foot.” The New Yorker, February 25, 2008
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Books
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http://www.eoearth.org/by/topic/climate%20change
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Mann, Michael, and Lee R. Kump. Dire Predictions:Understanding Global Warming. The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. New York, NY: DK Publishing, Inc., 2008.
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Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2009. Washington, DC: Climate Change Science Program, 2008.
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Repetto, Robert. Climate Policy and Economic Revitalization. Washington, DC: Climate Policy Center, 2008.
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Stern, Nicholas. A blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. New York: Random House, 2009.
Understanding and Responding to Climate Change. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change_2008_final.pdf
Web Sites
National Center for Atmospheric Research: Climate
http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/research/climate/
The World Bank World Development Indicators database, 1 July 2009. Gross domestic product (2008).
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/ Resources/GDP.pdf
Yale University: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies: Project on Climate Change
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U.S. Department of Commerce: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Climate
http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html
U.S. Department of Energy: Climate Change
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U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs: Climate Change
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Kombikraftwerk
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Meteorological Service, Jamaica
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Website of a US-EU Strategy Dialogue
http://www.energy-transformation.org/
Ecologic Institute
http://ecologic.eu; http://ecologic.eu/washington
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
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Resources for the Future: Climate Change
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Sixth compilation and synthesis of initial national communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2005/sbi/eng/18a02.pdf
Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/climatechange/
Climate Classroom — from the National Wildlife Federation
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Fired Up Media
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Global Campaign for Climate Action
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Hot Politics
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It’s Getting Hot in Here blog
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LinkTV: Earth Focus
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Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists
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UN Environmental Programme: Seal the Deal! — Youth Action on Climate Change
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