Options, Winter 2010
Energy & Climate Chang

Page 14-15: Tackling short-lived pollutants offers big benefits

References:

• Amann M, Bertok I, Heyes C, Klimont Z, Kupiainen K, Schöpp W, Wagner F. (2010) Mitigation potential for short-lived climate forcers. A contribution to the UNEP Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone..
• Quinn PK, Bates TS, Baum E, Doubleday N, Fiore AM, Flanner M, Fridlind A, Garrett TJ, Koch D, Menon S, Shindell D, Stohl A, Warren SG. (2008). Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: Their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Vol: 8: 1723–1735.
• Quinn et al (2008). The Impact of Short-Lived Pollutants on Arctic Climate. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Technical Report No. 1, Oslo, Norway. (available as an electronic document from www.amap.no).

Options, Winter 2009
Climate Change: Looking Beyond Copenhagen

Page 20: Climate change: Beyond the tipping points?

References:

• Blackstock, J. J. et al.,  2009, Climate Engineering Responses to Climate Emergencies (Novim) archived online.
• Crutzen, P. J., 2006, Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfur injections: A contribution to resolve a policy dilemma? Climatic Change 77, 3-4:  211-219.
• Schelling, T. C.,  1996, The economic diplomacy of geoengineering, Climatic Change  33(3): 303-307.

Options, Summer 2009
Stopping Deforestation and Degradation of Forests

Further reading:

• The Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment (INSEA) Project
• The Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging” (GEOBENE)
• The Climate Change – Terrestrial Adaptation & Mitigation in Europe (CC-TAME) Project
• The Geo-Wiki Project
• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Kindermann G, Obersteiner M, Sohngen B, Sathaye J, Andrasko K, Rametsteiner E, Schlamadinger B, Wunder S, Beach R (2008). Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105(30):10302-10307. doi:10.1073/pnas.0710616105
• IIASA Policy Brief: Climate change: clearing the “REDD hot” air (2008). Presented at COP 14 of the UNFCCC in Poznan
• The presentation of the "IIASA-Forestry Approach on REDD" published in the "Little REDD Book" by the Global Canopy Project GCP.

Figure source:
Steffen Fritz and colleagues produced the maps for a forthcoming publication in 2009. The map uses information from:

Costanza R, d'Arge R, de Groot R, Farber S, Grasso M, Hannon B, Limburg K, Naeem S, O'Neill R V, Paruelo J, Raskin RG, Sutton P, and van den Belt M (1997). The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387, 253 - 260; doi:10.1038/387253a0

Fritz S, Scholes RJ, Obersteiner M, Bouma J, Reyers B (2008). A conceptual framework for assessing the benefits of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, Systems Journal, IEEE, 2(3):338-348

Kindermann G, Obersteiner M, Sohngen B, Sathaye J, Andrasko K, Rametsteiner E, Schlamadinger B, Wunder S, Beach R (2008). Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105(30):10302-10307

Options, Summer 2008
Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over:
On the Fragility of Infrastructures Crucial for Modern Life

Popular science books about networks:

1. Barabasi, A.-L., Linked. Penguin, New York, 2002.
2. Watts, D. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Norton, New York, 2003.
3. Buchanan, M. Nexus. Norton, New York, 2002.

A recent article suggests that ecological infrastructures and the world financial systems share a number of common structures:

4. May, R., S. Levin and G. Sugihara. “Ecology for Bankers.” Nature, 451, 21 February 2008, 893–895.

Strengthening Science Academies to Achieve Policy Change in Africa

The two reports mentioned in the article are:

• Academy of Science of South Africa.  2007.  HIV/AIDS, TB and Nutrition: Scientific Inquiry into the Nutritional Influences on Human Immunity with Special Reference to HIV Infection and Active TB in South Africa.  [Online]. 
  Available:  http://search.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/3060%20ASSAf%20HIV%20TB%20and%20Nutrition.pdf [Accessed March 6, 2008].  Pretoria:  Academy of Science of South Africa. 
• Uganda National Academy of Science.  2008.  Mosquito Alert: Approaches to Assessing and Managing Malaria Vector Resistance to Insecticides used for Indoor Residual Spraying in Uganda — A Contribution to a National Indoor Residual Spraying Strategy.  Kampala:  Uganda National Academy of Science.

Options, Winter 2006:
From ice age to heat wave: A brief history of climate change research at IIASA

• Bolin, B., Döös, B., & Warrick, R. (1986). The Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change, and Ecosystems. Chichester: UK SCOPE 29 and John Wiley & Sons
• Charney et al. (1979) Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment. Washington DC, USA: National Academy of Sciences
• Clark, W. C. (1985) On the Practical Implications of the Carbon Dioxide Question IIASA Working Paper-85-43
• Clark, W. C. & Jäger, J. (1997). Climate Change 1995. Environment Vol 39 No 9 pp 23-28
• Duncan, E. (2006). A survey of climate change. In: The Economist, 9 September 2006.
• Haefele, W.,  Anderer, J.,  McDonald, A. & Nakicenovic, N.  (1981). Energy in a Finite World, Vol. 1. Paths to a Sustainable Future. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• IPCC (1995). IPCC Second Assessment Report: Climate Change 1995. Cambridge, UK: CUP.
• IPCC (2001). IPCC Third Assessment Report: Climate Change 2001. Cambridge, UK: CUP.
• Kolbert, E. (2006). Field notes from a catastrophe. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
• Pearce, F. (2005). Histories: The Week the climate changed. In: New Scientist, 15 October 2005.
• Shelling, T. (1996). Research by Accident. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 53: 15-20.
• The Social Learning Group (2001). Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks. Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press.
• Weart, S. (2003) The Discovery of Global Warming. USA: Harvard.
• Williams, J. ed. (1978) Carbon Dioxide, Climate and Society. Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
• Williams, J. & Krömer, G. (1979) A Systems Study of Energy Climate IIASA Status Reports-79-2A & 2B
• MO (1977) Report of the Scientific Workshop on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Washington DC, 28 Nov–3 Dec., 1976.

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