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 Feb 14: Analysis of the US Climate policy

The Arctic

The western Arctic, including Alaska and northwestern Canada, is warming at a rate three to five times faster than the Earth as a whole.

CoP- 7 Policy Papers

Coral Bleaching

Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and the Future of the World's Coral Reefs by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. This scientific study concludes that if climate change is not stopped, coral bleaching is set to steadily increase in frequency and intensity all over the world until it occurs annually by 2030-2070.

The Debate with Industry

Countering The Sceptics
The Climate Sceptics are a handful of scientists, many directly subsidised by the fossil fuel lobby and promoting what numerous mainstream scientists regard as blatant misinformation on climate science, thereby contesting the urgent need to tackle the problem of global warming.

The Oil Industry and Climate Change (pdf file)

Fueling Global Warming: Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States (pdf file) The U.S. government is massively subsidizing one of the major causes of climate change, the burning of oil.

The Subsidy Scandal - The European clash between environmental rhetoric and public spending
Close to $US15 billion of taxpayers' money has been used every year since 1990 to prop up the fossil fuel and nuclear industries in subsidies from the EU and Western European governments.

Oiling The Machine - Fossil Fuel Dollars Funneled into the U.S. Political Process
Oil, coal, gas and auto industry interests have funnelled substantial funds into U.S. federal elections since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Desertification

Climate Change and the Mediterranean Region by Jacqueline Karas. Water shortages and poor harvests during the droughts of the early 1990s exposed the acute vulnerability of the Mediterranean region to climatic extremes. Against this backdrop, the prospect of a major climate change brought about by human activities is a source of growing concern, raising serious questions over the sustainability of the region.

El Niño

Troubled Waters El Niño and Climate Change by Jacqueline Karas, November 1997. As the impacts of what may be prove to be the strongest El Niño event this century start to bite across the world, there is growing evidence that we may be beginning to witness the effects of human-induced climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels and Climate Protection - The Carbon Logic by W.L.Hare. Preventing dangerous climate change will involve limiting both the rate and magnitude of climate change over the next century to levels that natural and human systems can tolerate without significant damage. This report shows the implications for overall fossil fuel use, in the form of a ‘carbon budget’, over the next century if the global community is to prevent dangerous climate change.

Ocean Disposal/Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Production and Use:
An Overview of Rationale, Techniques and Implications (this document has a glitch on p37. The text breaks but none is lost)

Kyoto Protocol

Greenpeace Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol.
Greenpeace has prepared a detailed analysis of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Convention, which was agreed at Kyoto on December 11, 1997. The Kyoto protocol nominally calls for industrialized countries, as a group, to reduce emissions by 5% by 2010. This is inadequate in itself, and because of loopholes built into the protocol, may not be met in practice. Greenpeace has calculated that the loopholes in the Protocol mean that it is likely to lead to an increase in emissions.

Ozone

Cool technologies: Working without HFC's. Updated for the 16th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SBSTA)of the United Nations framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Making a Difference: A Non-Governmental Organisation's Campaign To Save the Ozone Layer.
Case Study of the Greenpeace Ozone Campaign by Greenpeace International Ozone and Greenfreeze Project Director, John Maté.

More Ozone reports

Renewables Analysis

Power to Tackle Poverty: Getting Renewable Energy to the World's Poor (pdf)

The Big Switch:
Greenpeace analysis of future independent renewable power production in the South East Asian electricity sector.

KPMG: Solar Energy, From Perennial Promise to Competetive Alternative (commissioned by Greenpeace, September 1999)
The question Greenpeace put to KPMG was: "Can the large scale producton of solar panels lower the price of solar energy to such an extent that solar energy can compete economically with conventional forms of energy? And if it can, what action is necessary on the part of government, customers and industry to break through the current impasse?"

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