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Links to other related organisations

Following COP6 in the Hague, a loose 'climate equity network' of like-minded organisations and people was set up.
There is an e-mail list which people can join - contact Alex Evans at alex.r.evans@ic.ac.uk for information.

Organisations in this network, apart from GCI, include:

Inzet - an independent Dutch organisation whose objective is a redistribution of wealth between the South and the North, between rich and poor
Ecoequity - The focus for equity in climate change and C&C in the USA. Website under construction as at 16/3/01 - contact Tom Athanasiou at toma@ecoequity.org or Paul Baer at pbaer@ecoequity.org
CSE - Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi. CSE is one of India’s leading environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource management. CSE’s insistence on respect for democracy, people’s participation, traditional knowledge and modern science make it different even from most environmental organisations.
Counterpart International, a global NGO with its origins in the Pacific, campaigning on a wide range of topics including Climate Change

Other useful links (in rough alphabetical order)

• Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Centre
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US (Where GCI's historical CO2 data comes from)
• Centre for Social and Economic Research of the Global Environment, UEA
  The people who thought up the notorious cost-benefit analysis of climate change with the 15:1 ratio for the value of life. But they do explore many other approaches too...
• Chartered Insurance Institute - CII - published in February 2001 an excellent if lengthy report on Climate Chnage and what the insurance industry should do about it.
• Climate Engineering: Ben Matthews' paper: "risks of climate engineering"
• Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia
• The Climate Train Europe-Kyoto (COP3) by train, boat and bicycle -including conferences on route
• Earth Negotiations Bulletins
  (updates of all meetings of UN conventions and subsidiary bodies - very useful)
• Econet: many links to climate-related organisations
  very good resource, also links to ECO, the Climate Action Network daily newsetter from convention meetings
• "Flying off to a Warmer Climate" About greenhouse emissions from aircraft
• Some ideas for a Global Climate Referendum on the Internet
• Framework Convention on Climate Change
  Here can be found all the official documents of the convention, and the secretariat.
• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment (at Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Greenpeace
• Hadley Research Centre of the UK Met Office - one of the best sources for up-to-date research on and in-depth reports on climate change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
• International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Research and Development Programme Contains much basic information about climate change, and possible technological solutions (or lack of them!).
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• Union of Concerned Scientists (useful introduction to many climate issues)
• United Nations: Environment Programme / Development Programme
• World Climate Research Programme

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