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Compliance Issues:

 Restoring the Balance: Using Remedial Measures to Avoid and Cure Non-Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol
(March 2000, CIEL/WWF, Wiser & Goldberg)

Recommendations on the Implementation of International Emissions Trading and Related Inventory, Reporting, Review and Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms: Submission to the UNFCCC Secretariat, (January 2000, CCAP)

The Compliance Fund: A New Tool for Achieving Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol
(June 1999, CIEL, Wiser & Goldberg) (An Executive Summary isalsoavailable online.)

Compliance Systems Under Multilateral Agreements: A Survey for the Benefit of Kyoto Protocol Policy
(1999, CIEL, Wiser)

Compliance Institutions for the Kyoto Protocol: A Joint CIEL/WWF Proposal (1999, CIEL/WWF, Morgan & Porter)

 Responsibility for Non-Compliance Under the Kyoto Protocol's Mechanisms for Cooperative Implementation
 (CIEL/EuroNatura, 1998, Goldberg, Porter, Lacosta & Hillman)

Building a Compliance Regime Under the Kyoto Protocol
(CIEL/EuroNatura, 1998, Goldberg, Wiser, Porter & Lacosta)

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM):

 Making the Clean Development Mechanism Clean and Green,
Greenpeace, 1998. COP4 is to begin the process of developing the institutional framework for implementing the Clean Development Mechanism created under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol. Whilst the CDM only really comes into existence with the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, the COP's role is to begin preparing the requisite decision for the first COP/MOP of the Kyoto Protocol.

Climate Change, Conservation, and the Clean Development Mechanism and Case Study
(CIEL/CEDARENA,1998) (Goldberg)

Climate Science and the Impacts of Climate Change:

Climate Change and the World's Coral Reefs,
Greenpeace, 2000. This scientific study concludes that if climate change is not stopped, coral bleaching is set to steadily increase in frequency and intensity all over the world until it occurs annually by 2030-2070.

Emissions Trading:
Joint Implementation (JI):

Kyoto Protocol - Loopholes:

Undermining the Kyoto Protocol: Environmental Effectiveness versus Political Expediency?,
 June 2000, Greenpeace, Bill Hare This paper takes a look at the potential loopholes of the Kyoto Protocol and their impacts on the Kyoto targets.

Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (aka "sinks"):

 CAN Commentary on the Chairman's Text -
Elements Related to Articles 3.3 and 3.4, September 12, 2000

Carbon Sequestration Potential in Canada, Russia and the United States Under Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol., WWF, July 2000
As the negotiations regarding the international treaty on climate change move forward, the possibility of transferring carbon between the atmosphere and the biosphere as an offset to industrial greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments has taken on increased emphasis.

January 2000 Climate Action Network Australia has a new paper on sinks and emissions trading. The ‘cheap fix’ metaphor is used to describe his concerns about the ability of an international emissions trading system to effectively address the climate change problem. http://www.climatenetwork.org/CANA.htm

 Executive Summary - Carbon Sinks Proposal, WWF, November 1999 A WWF study shows proposals could allow key polluters like the US to meet their international global warming promises without reducing their emissions much at home. The study shows how efforts to stop global warming could be weakened if large sinks are included.

Nuclear Energy:

Nuclear Power: Too Expensive to Solve Global Warming - NET, November 1999

Climate Change and Nuclear Power, WWF, April 2000
This report looks at the status of nuclear power programmes worldwide and compares technological options for cutting back CO2 emissions - the main global warming gas.

Public Participation in the CDM and JI:

 Letter to UNFCCC Parties on Public Participation in the CDM and JI, September 10, 2000
Line-by-line Comments: Public Participation in the CDM and JI,
 (Reference Document FCCC/SB/2000/4, July 28, 2000), August 25, 2000 CAN Recommendations: Public Participation in the CDM and JI,
July 21, 2000

Kyoto Protocol Background:

Guide to the Kyoto Protocol.
This guide to the Kyoto Protocol is meant to provide a basic background to the Protocol, what is in it and what is not, what it means and what Greenpeace's concerns are.
 Greenpeace Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol.
 Greenpeace has prepared a detailed analysis of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Convention, which was agreed at Kyoto on December 11, 1997.