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Over the last twenty years GCI has made an effort - arguably unequalled by any agency in the entire UNFCCC-process - to elucidate, answer and communicate answers to this point: -
what rates of C&C are required for UNFCCC-compliance?

The effort has been made to help [and not prescribe to] negotiators at the UNFCCC on how they might yet come to an effective global agreement. Below are a few examples of GCI's effort to this ranging over the last fifteen years.

Here is a recent example from COP-15 Copenhagen December 2009: -

Convergence Accelerated Relative to Contraction Video Selection from YouTube
Full Flash Animation for download and user determined viewing here

While some Government and Non-Government actors have over the years, made an insufficient effort to really engage with this, others have chosen to avoid it altogether. However, an increasing number have and are engaging with it: -

http://www.gci.org.uk/animations/C&C_COP_15.swf
http://www.gci.org.uk/animations/C1_C2_C3_animations.exe
http://www.gci.org.uk/animations/C1,C2,C3.swf
http://www.gci.org.uk/C&C_Animation.exe
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/C&CSlideshow_notes.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/movies/Contraction_and_Convergence_Challen_et_al.flv
http://www.gci.org.uk/movies/Contraction_and_Convergence_Risk_Analysis_Sink_Failure.flv
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/CPI.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/C&C_Chapter_Levene_Book_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/briefings/RSA_Occasional_Paper.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/ASEF_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Korea_C&C_Notes_for_Jeju_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/PIU.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/UNEPFI_a.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/animations/BENN_C&C_Animation.exe
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Benn_DEFRA_15_11_07_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/ASEF_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Korea_C&C_Notes_for_Jeju_.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/PIU.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/UNEPFI_a.pdf

This record is variously recognized: -
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/NefEdC&C.pdf
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_UN_Bodies.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_UK_Climate_Act.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_institutions.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_medics.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_religious.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_population.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_ethics.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_equity_fairness.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_sustainability.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_sceptics.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_campaigns.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_sociology.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_academia.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_capitalist_socialist.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_law.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_economists.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_politics.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_justice_eco_debt.html
http://www.gci.org.uk/endorsements_publications.html