In Green – sugar-cane growing areas of Brazil – 2008
In Blue       – further potential areas for fuel ethanol purpose

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Courtesy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur…

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The following was presented at the COP 10 of the UNFCCC in Buenos Aires in December 2004.

It was prepared by a group of Japanese scientists from the Kyoto University, based on proposals that were put forward earlier by the Brazilian delegation to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
This proposal is also the base for the UK NGOs proposals that come under the name of “Contraction and Conversion Proposals.”

The Japanese calculation uses a formula based on “regional Temperature Change Contributions (TCC)” that are the basis for climate change. The allowances per region, for future emissions, take into consideration the historical TCCs for the various regions.

We believe that the attached graph will be part of the Japanese propsal for the G8 this coming May, so this is why we post it at this time. It is still possible to activate this sort of program starting 2013 for limits to CO2 emissions, in order to stabilize eventually the emissions at 450ppm, as it is suggested in the IPCC studies.
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This almost explains all of the mysteries in life:
>
>
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
> inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number.
>
>     Why was that gauge used?   Because that’s the way they built them in England,
> and English expatriates built the US railroads.
>
>     Why did the English build them like that?   Because the first rail lines were
> built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the
> gauge they used.
>
>     Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?   Because the people who built the tramways
> used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that
> wheel spacing.
>
>     Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?   Well, if they
> tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old,
> long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts.
>
>     So who built those old rutted roads?   Imperial Rome built the first long
> distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been
> used ever since.
>
>     And the ruts in the roads?   Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which
> everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.   Since the
> chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel
> spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5
> inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war
> chariot.   Bureaucracies live forever.
>
>     So the next time you are handed a Specification/Procedure/ Process and wonder
> ‘What horse’s ass came up with that?’ . . . you may be exactly right.   Imperial
> Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of
> two war horses.   (Two horses’ asses.)   Now, the twist to the story:
>
>     When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big
> booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid
> rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah.
> The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit
> fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch
> site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the
> mountains.   And the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly
> wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about
> as wide as two horses’ behinds.
>
>     So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world’s most
> advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the
> width of a horse’s ass.
>
>     And you thought being a horse’s ass wasn’t important?   Ancient horses’ asses
> control almost everything . . . and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling
> everything else!!

The following is the most recent UN chart – August 2006. It shows the complexity of the system with links that in places are incomprehensible.
It shows fossilized bodies, the likes of the Trusteeship Council. On the other hand, important bodies like the Secretariats for particular conventions, the likes of UNFCCC do not appear on this chart.

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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) announces that the IGES CDM Project Database has been updated as of 13 Aug. 2007.

Now it contains 757 CDM registered project activities. Also the following data
have been added: total issued CERs, number of the request for review of CER
issuance, amount of issued CERs per year, and the bundling method.

To download the IGES CDM Project Database:
In English: http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cdm/report.html
In Japanese: http://www.iges.or.jp/jp/cdm/report.html

IGES CDM Project Database is the database on CDM projects registered
by the CDM Executive Board under the UNFCCC. It aimed at providing
comprehensive, organised information on the CDM projects in an
easy-to-understand way. The database helps users search for specific
information on each registered project more easily and it also enables them
to use relevant information for their own analytical purposes.

All information is extracted from the publicly available sources on the
UNFCCC web-site and this database will be updated regularly.

Your comments and feedbacks are always appreciated.
Please send us e-mail to:  cdm-info at iges.or.jp

For more information on IGES CDM Programme, please visit
 http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cdm/

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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Climate Policy Project
CDM Programme
 cdm-info at iges.or.jp
2108-11, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama,
Kanagawa 240-0115
Phone:+81-46-855-3820 Fax:+81-46-855-3809
 http://www.iges.or.jp/en/

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 Also GHG data by country:

IGES GHG Emissions Data
In English: http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cdm/report.html
In Japanese: http://www.iges.or.jp/jp/cdm/report.html

Your comments and feedbacks are always appreciated.
Please send us e-mail to:  cdm-info at iges.or.jp
Attn. Mr. Yuji MIZUNO

                Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
announces that the IGES GHG Emissions Data is now available online.

The IGES GHG Emissions Data aimed at providing comprehensive,
organised information on the GHG emissions from Annex I countries
to the UNFCCC in an easy-to-understand way. This spreadsheet enables
users to use relevant information for their own analytical purposes.

All information is extracted from the publicly available sources on the
UNFCCC web-site and this data will be updated regularly.

IGES GHG Emissions Data
In English: http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cdm/report.html
In Japanese: http://www.iges.or.jp/jp/cdm/report.html

For more information on IGES CDM Programme, please visit our website.
 http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cdm/

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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Climate Policy Project
CDM Programme
 cdm-info at iges.or.jp
2108-11, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama,
Kanagawa 240-0115
Phone:+81-46-855-3820 Fax:+81-46-855-3809
 http://www.iges.or.jp/en/

To commemorate the World Environment Day on June 5, 2007: and LAUNCHES OF GLOBAL OUTLOOK FOR ICE AND SNOW report, UNEP/GRID Sioux Falls, has released a set of PowerPoint presentations entitled Melting Glaciers.   Since 1960, glaciers around the world have lost an estimated 8 000 cubic kilometres of ice. There is now a consensus among many scientists that climate change is the “biggest crisis in today’s world” with the potential to cause catastrophic damage. This collection of visually compelling slides of melting ice, showing changes measured using satellite observations, is startling evidence of impact of rapidly changing climate.

To download the presentation go to: http://www.na.unep.net/   and click on “Recent Releases”

The presentation slides can also be downloaded from: ftp://na.unep.net/UNEP/TGiri/

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Tejaswi Giri (Ms.)
UNEP/GRID
USGS/EROS Data Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD, 57198, USA
Tel: 1 (605) 594-2782
Fax: 1 (605) 594-6119
Email:  tgiri at usgs.gov

LINKS:
- US Government Climate Change Policy – Thomas L. Brewer, Georgetown Univ., Washington D.C. ( www.usclimatechange.com )
Published in the New York Times (October 16, 2005)

1. The Tuvalu islands location.

2. Arctic Circumpolar Geography.

Arctic ice cap in 1979	3. The Arctic melt-down (ref. NASA).
Arctic ice cap in 2003