1.
According to the CIA World Fact Book
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Did
Russia and the Ukraine ratify the Climate Change Kyoto Protocol?
Check
out the Kyoto Protocol Thermometer to compare the Russian Federation's percentage
of CO2 emissions to those of the United States.
http://unfccc.int/resource/kpthermo.html
Look
up the following information in the CIA World Fact Book. While comparing these
three sets of national statistics, consider how the emission rates of the
three countries might compare:
-What is the total land area of Indonesia?
-What
is the GDP real growth rate in Indonesia?
-What percentage of the Indonesia's GDP is from industry?
-What is Indonesia's industrial production growth rate?
-Are the top industries large energy users or pollution producers?
-What
percentage of the Indonesia's electricity production is by fossil fuels?
-What is the population growth rate in Indonesia?
-What is the total current population in Indonesia?
-What is the total land area of S. Korea?
-What is the GDP of S. Korea?
-What is the GDP real growth rate in S. Korea?
-What percentage of S. Korea's GDP is from industry?
-What is the industrial production growth rate in S. Korean?
-Are the top industries large energy users or pollution producers?
-What
percentage of the S. Korea's electricity production is by fossil fuels?
-What is the population growth rate in of S. Korea?
-What is the total current population in S. Korea?
-What is the total land area of Canada?
-What is the GDP?
-What is the GDP real growth rate in Canada?
-What percentage of Canada's GDP is from industry?
-What is the industrial production growth rate in Canada?
-Are the top industries large energy users or pollution producers?
-What
percentage of the Canada's electricity production is by fossil fuels?
-What is the population growth rate in Canada?
-What
is the total current population in Canada?
Comparing
these sets of figures, which nation might one assume to be the most likely
contributor to emissions of green house gases?
Do
you find any figures in the data that reflect the extent of deforestation
in Indonesia? Do you think that figures for emissions of fossil fuel burning
or CO2 reflect emissions from forest burning for land conversion?
For explicit data on green house gas emissions for different countries check out the UNFCCC Green House Gas Inventory Database
http://ghg.unfccc.int/default1.htf?time=10%3A01%3A21+PM
2.
Websites
Find
five additional websites (not already given to you in the list below) that
may be useful resources for your country/organization and describe what information
the websites provide.
Useful Websites
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CIA World Fact Book
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
LexisNexis: Comprehensive newspaper search engine (available when using
on-campus computers)
http://www.grida.no/geo/geo3/
UNEP's Global Resource Info Database (GRID) Global Environmental Outlook
3
http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/
UNEP's Vital Climate Graphics
http://www.unep.org/Geo2000/english/index.htm
UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook 2000
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/
Global Climate Change Student Guide
http://www.unido.org/
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
http://earthtrends.wri.org/
World Resources Institute EarthTrends, The Environmental Information Portal
(you will need to register but it's free). WRI is an environmental think tank
that synthesizes research to provide information, ideas, and solutions to
global environmental problems. You will be able to find regional/country
maps
http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/qrsummer02/review.html
Harvard Medical SchoolÕs Quarterly Review on Human Health Affects of Climate
Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/wg2SPMfinal.pdf
IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation
and Vulnerability (Summary for Policy Makers)
http://www.unfccc.de
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://ghg.unfccc.int/default1.htf?time=10%3A01%3A21+PM
UNFCCC Green House Gas Inventory Database
http://www.spindrift.org/lightfoot/energy.htm
Green Energy; a list of links put together by students at UC Berkeley
http://www.eren.doe.gov/
Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
http://www.rivm.nl/env/int/geo/images/402001-012.pdf
UNEP Environment and Assessment Technical Report: Global Assessment of Acidification
and Eutrophication of Natural Ecosystems
http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/ka2/policies.htm
EU Related Policies: Global Change, Climate & Biodiversity
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/eesd/leaflets/en/index.html
European Commission: Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development
http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/accelerates/
Assessing Climate Change Affects on Land Use and Ecosystems (Funded
by the European Commission)
http://www.efi.fi/projects/forsce/example_of_results.html
European Forest Institute history and projections
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/ateam/
Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystems And Modeling (ATEAM)