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Week ending September 12th 2004
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Fast Start Finance makes available information about funding for climate action by developing countries.
The United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification website provides information, news and resources concerning action to protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation.
The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by and other organizations, on climate issues.
And finally,
Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo discusses her work Melting Men, a series of installations that has been adopted as climate change art.
About the Cyberlibrary
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis.
The Tiempo Climate Portal is a listing of selected websites covering climate and development and related issues.
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore. The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly.
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Mount Everest is losing height as a result of global warming, according to a recent survey. The mountain shrank by 1.3 metres in the 33 years to 1999, it was reported at an international conference in Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. |
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Yao Tandong, director of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, blamed consolidation of glaciers for the loss of height and warned that the change in climate is also affecting water availability at the oases of western China. It is estimated that close to 600 billion cubic metres of water have been lost since the 1950s. |
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Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, have reported a rapid warming of the waters of the Arctic Ocean this year. The sampling took place in the Fram Strait, which lies between Greenland and Spitzbergen. The warming has been accompanied by a retreat of the ice edge in this sector of the Arctic. |
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The West Spitzbergen Current, which carries warm water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic, has been warming steadily since the 1990s, but this year's rise, with temperatures up to 0.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1993, represented "an exceptionally strong signal by ocean standards". The strongest warming has been occurring in the upper 500m of the ocean, but the rise can be detected down to 2,000m. |
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Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has congratulated the world's indigenous peoples on the substantial progress they have made in "creating a policy space" in the environmental treaty processes. |
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She noted that "the UNFCCC process has been enriched and informed through the participation of indigenous peoples organizations". Parties to the Convention have "acknowledged the importance of the on-going participation by indigenous peoples organization..., especially though discussions on relevant agenda items, participation in workshops and informal contacts". Joke Waller-Hunter issued the statement to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9th 2004. |
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Bright Ideas
A prize-winning nation-wide biogas programme takes Vietnam's human and animal waste and turns it into clean, renewable energy, improving smallholders' quality of life
Schools for Intelligent Energy Use builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy
HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers
Toronto Zoo is deploying green roof technology, solar hot water heating and solar and geothermal energy and plans to use dung from elephants and other large animals in a biogas plant
The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets
The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video)
SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.
Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities
Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)
The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time
Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: September 4th 2010