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Articles and Views related to Contraction and Convergence

A comprehensive list of references to C&C (pdf, right-click to download)


The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Report on Climate Change advocates C&C as one of its key recommendations.

"Contraction and Convergence" and the changing climate (pdf, right-click to download)

Commentary on the RCEP report; by David Chaytor MP - Chair GLOBE UK, June 2000


Christian Aid report on 'unnatural_disasters'

Preparing To Fund The World (pdf, right-click to download), Church Times, May 2000. Following the Christian Aid report, calls on the 'North' to undertake necessary sacrifices to preserve the global climate.


Congressional Climate Change Hearings: Comedy or Tragedy?(pdf, right-click to download)

A discussion of the debate about Kyoto ratification in the US Congress, by Dr Benito Müller, March 2000.

The Kyoto Protocol: Does US Ratification Really Matter?(pdf, right-click to download)

By Dr Benito Müller, Senior Research Fellow at the OIES, Oxford, UK; February2000,
(see also http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/energy/).


Climate Change Mitigation and Equity(pdf, right-click to download)

Ambassador Raúl A. Estrada-Oyuela, at the IPCC 2 nd Regional Experts’ Meeting on “Development, Equity and Sustainability”, Havana, Cuba, 23-25 February 2000
- discusses the the developing countries’ impossibility to implement QELROS in equitable ways and suggests a distinct method to organize the international mitigation effort.


The Drowning Village

An allegory about global climate change, by Titus Alexander, August 1997

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