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FROM VOLUME 3, NUMBER 5, MAY 1990
GENERAL INTEREST AND POLICY
Report of the International Workshop on a Framework Convention and
Associated Protocols: A Nongovernmental Perspective, approx. 60 pp., Feb.
1990. Climate Inst., 316 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, S. 403, Washington DC 20003
(202-547-0104); no charge.
The product of a February 1990 meeting held immediately prior to the plenary
session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Washington
(see Global Climate Change Digest, NEWS, Apr. 1990), developed by over
80 participants from the scientific, legal, environmental and industrial
communities of a number of countries. Contains draft language for a framework
convention for the protection of climate, with annexes on research and
monitoring, information exchange and agriculture; a coastal protocol; and a
protocol on resolving disputes over shared water resources.
Addressing Global Climate Change: The Emergence of a New World Order,
A. Timoshenko, N. Robinson, 70 pp., Jan. 1990. Prepared by the Environ. Law
Inst. (Wash., D.C.) for Off. Intl. Activities, U.S. EPA, 401 M St. SW (A-106),
Washington DC 20460 (202-382-4870); inquire regarding public availability.
The adoption of political innovations at the 1992 United Nations Conference
on Environment and Development are necessary to adequately address climate
change. A broad plan for balancing ecological security with sustainable
development should be approved, as well as resolutions for a new level of
international organizational and financial provisions. The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change should continue to evaluate climate change research and
monitor the evolution of a framework convention for climate protection after its
planned termination next fall.
Global Warming: Towards a Strategy for Ontario, 32 pp., March
1990. Available (no charge) from Min. Energy, Ont. Min. Environ., 56 Wellesley
St. West, 12th Fl., Toronto, Ont. M7A 2B7 (416-965-0302).
This discussion paper is open for public comment before July 31, 1990, and
will lead to a policy "white paper" on global warming by the end of
1990 after public hearings and a late spring workshop. The Ontario government
proposes reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1989 levels by the year 2000,
as a step toward meeting the objective of the 1988 Toronto conference (20% by
2005). A phase-out of five CFCs by the year 1998 is proposed as well. Also
discussed are other initiatives to which the province is already committed, a
number of possible further steps and over thirty topics for research.
Economic Report of the President, U.S. Presidential Council of
Economic Advisors, 1990. Available (no charge) from Publications, Executive Off.
President, 725 17th St. NW, Rm. 2200, Washington DC 20503 (202-395-7332).
Contains almost 20 pages on global environmental issues. The portion on
climate change concludes that uncertainty on the topic is still so large that
there are no grounds for immediate reductions in greenhouse emissions; rather,
policies that may slow emissions but can be justified on other grounds are the
best approach until uncertainties are reduced.
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Plan (DOE/ER-0441),
U.S. Dept. Energy (Atmospheric and Climate Res. Div.), 116 pp., Feb. 1990.
Available from NTIS (Nat. Tech. Info. Svc.), 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield VA
22161 (703-487-4650); $21.95. Exec. summary (19 pp., DOE/ER-0442) $13.95.
The ARM Program will focus observational and analytical research to improve
general circulation models for prediction of climatic change from greenhouse
gases. Ground observations of cloud distribution and a range of physical
parameters, made on a scale much smaller than the typical GCM grid cell, will be
compared with model calculations to improve representation of cloud and
radiative processes. The plan includes contributions from the DOE national
laboratories and other federal agencies, the academic community and the private
sector, and has been extensively peer-reviewed.
The Case for Issue-Oriented Information Analysis Centers in Support
of the U.S. Global Change Program, P. Kanciruk, M. Farrell, 29 pp., July
1989. Carbon Dioxide Info. Analysis Ctr., U.S. Dept. Energy, Oak Ridge Nat.
Lab., Oak Ridge TN 37831 (615-574-0390).
Discusses data management at three levels: the individual researcher,
traditional data centers, and information analysis centers (IACs). The highly
interdisciplinary nature of global change demands the establishment of a number
of IACs to support both research and policymaking. Among other advantages, they
would produce augmented, higher level data products not attempted by researchers
and above the talents of policy makers.
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