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• The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and other Environmental Impacts New
  Executive Summary
  Part I: The South Asian Haze:Air Pollution, Ozone and Aerosols
  Part II: Climate and Environmental Impacts
  Part III: Global and Future Implications
  Source: UNEP
   

• Applying sustainable development criteria to CDM projects: The PCF experience
  Final report by Dr. Saleemul Huq for the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and capacity building programs, and how the issue of sustainable development has been treated.
  Open file [PDF 200k]
   

• Climate Change Conference in Bonn: What does it mean for Bangladesh? PDF
   

• Climate Change 2001 Synthesis Report - IPCC (PDF Format)
   

• Global Environment Outlook 2000: Climate Change
   

• "Equity and efficiency in climate change negotiations : a scenario for world emission entitlements by 2030", July 2001, working paper n.26.
  Authors : Odile BLANCHARD, Patrick CRIQUI, Michel TROMMETTER, Laurent VIGUIER
   

• Policy dialogue between Japan and Germany for facilitating co-ordinated measures to address global warming
   

• International Climate Policy & the IT-Sector" Summary - dialogue between Japan & Germany
   

• "Towards co-ordinated climate protection strategies" Summary - dialogue between Japan & Germany
   

• Linkages between Climate Change and Desertification
   
• How Big is Your CO2 Footprint?
   
• IPCC Special Report on The Regionals Impacts of Climate Change An Assessment of Vulnerability
  Foreword, Preface , Summary for Policymakers
  Chapters - Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Africa, Chapter 3: The Arctic and the Antarctic, Chapter 4: Australasia, Chapter 5: Europe, Chapter 6: Latin America, Chapter 7: Middle East and Arid Asia, Chapter 8: North America, Chapter 9: Small Island States, Chapter 10: Temperate Asia
  Chapter 11: Tropical Asia
  Annexes , Annex A , Annex B , Annex C , Annex D , Annex E, Annex F, Annex G, Annex H, Annex I
   
• IPCC Working Group III accepts its contribution to IPCC Third Assessment Report
  "Climate Change 2001: Mitigation"
  Download Summary for Policymakers from site closest to you Switzerland | UK | US | Japan
   
• "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis"
  WG I contribution to the IPCC Third Assessment Report
  Download Summary for Policymakers from site closest to you - Switzerland | UK | US | Japan
   

• Keeping cool without warming the planet: Cutting HFCs, PFCs, and SF6 In Europe
  By: Jason Anderson
   

• Climate Change in the USA: Does Election Matter ?
   

• Potential Impact of Sea-level rise on Bangladesh
   

• Potential impacts of climate change
   

• Impact of El Niño and La Niña on Southeast Asia
   

• Clean Development Mechanism and the Power Sector An analysis for the World Wildlife Fund
  prepared by : Steve Bernow, Sivan Kartha, Michael Lazarus, and Tom Page, Tellus Institute and Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston Center. www.tellus.org September 2000
   

• 2000 World Natural Disaster Reduction
   

• "The Clean Development Mechanism - Building International Public-Private Partnerships under the Kyoto Protocol- A Preliminary Examination of Technical, Financial & Institutional Issues"
  Download final version .pdf download
  Author: Richard Stewart (Lead Author) With: Dean Anderson, Malik Amin Aslam, Charles Eyre, Ged Jones, Philippe Sands, Marc Stuart, and Farhana Yamin, source: unctad.org
   

• "International Rules for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading" Download .pdf download
  Author: Tom Tietenberg, Michael Grubb, Axel Michaelowa, Byron Swift and ZhongXiang Zhang, source: unctad.org
   

• "International Rules for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading - Executive Summary" Download .pdf
   

• "A Pilot Greenhouse Gas Trading System: The Legal Issues" Download .pdf
  Author: Robin Clarke, source: unctad.org
   

• Computer modelling of the rural energy system and CO₂ emissions for Bangladesh
  Bala B K. 1997 Energy 22(10): 999-1003 [Abstract]
   

• An inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in Bangladesh: initial results
  Ahmed A U, Islam K, and Reazuddin M. 1996 Ambio 25(4): 300-303 [Abstract]
   

• Vulnerability of Bangladesh to climate change and sea-level rise through tropical cyclones and storm surges
  Ali A. 1996 Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 91(1-2): 171-179 [Abstract]
   

• Assessing impacts of climatic variations on foodgrain production in Bangladesh
  Karim Z, Hussain S G, and Ahmed M. 1996 Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 92(1-2): 53-62 [Abstract]
   

• Vulnerability and adaptation assessments of climate change and sea-level rise in the coastal zone: perspectives from the Netherlands and Bangladesh
  Rijsberman F R, Velzen A V. 1996 In Adapting to climate change: an international perspective 322-334 [Abstract]
   

• Integrated model systems for national assessments of the effects of climate change: applications in New Zealand and Bangladesh
  Warrick R A et al. 1996 Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 92(1-2): 215-227 [Abstract]
   

• Environmental Terms Directory
   

• U.S. Emissions Inventory – 2000
  INVENTORY OF U.S. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND SINKS: 1990 – 1998 (April 2000) EPA 236-R-00-001
   

• International Ozone Day
   

• COP - 6, Sixth Session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties
  The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 - 24 November, 2000
   

• U.S. global warming stance prompts pie in the face
  The top U.S. diplomat at a U.N. climate conference was hit in the face with a pie on Wednesday, as activists and delegates alike expressed frustration over unproductive talks meant to curb fossil fuel emissions.