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LAB 1
Orientation to major websites

1. What happened January 9, 2001 in relation to the UNFCC?
   
   
   
2. Which URL within the UNFCC website contains the most recent documents concerning the Buenos Aires Plan of Action? 
   
   
   
3. If you wanted to contact the Secretariat, how would you do so?
   
   
   
4. What are the tasks of the Secretariat?
   
   
   
5. Where would you find country specific information on the UNFCC site?
   
   
   
6. If you wanted to hear a recording made during a session, where would you find them?
   
   
   
7. Which country ratified the UNFCC first and on what date?
   
   
   
8. Which is the most recent country to ratify the UNFCC and on what date?
   
   
   
9. As of July 20, 2001, how many countries had signed the Kyoto Protocol?
   
   
   
10. What is the title of a technical paper published in 2001?
    

Global Climate Change Student Guide (http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/)

1. Which section discusses the Kyoto Protocol?
   
   
   
2. What does the Appendix contain?
   
   
   
3. What are the 5 main gases covered in the Contemporary Climate Change section?
   
   
   
4. When construcing a climate model, what are the three major sets of processes that must be considered?
   

UNIDO (http://www.unido.org/)

1. What is UNIDO's vision?
   
   
   
2. When searching for information on the Kyoto Protocol on the UNIDO site, how many documents are returned?
   
   
   
3. What are some of the titles of the documents returned from the search for 'Kyoto Protocol'?
   
   

Other sites:

1. Using a search engine, such as Google, are there other websites that might be use to you in conducting research on the Kyoto Protocol? What are their URL's?
   
   
   
2. And if you use a web directory such as Yahoo, do you find any other potentially useful websites?  What are their URL's?
   
   
   
3. After reviewing the United Nations System Web Locator (http://www.unsystem.org), are there any potentially relevant UN sites?  What are their URL's?