Publications: Climate change adaptation for coral triangle communities: a guide for vulnerability assessment and local early action planning (LEAP guide) (Jun 2013)

Climate change adaptation for coral triangle communities: a guide for vulnerability assessment and local early action planning (LEAP guide)

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This comprehensive set of scientific and social instruments helps local governments and communities to assess their vulnerability to climate change and form their own climate change adaptation plans to address local conditions. So far it has been adopted in pilot sites in the Coral Triangle, such as the Nino Konis Santana National Park in Timor-Leste, Verde Island Passage in the Philippines, Kei Islands in Indonesia, the proposed Tun Mustapha Park in Malaysia, Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea, and Western Province in the Solomon Islands.

The guide is one of the key tools that Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) has developed to reduce the decline of the region's marine resources and increase the social and economic resilience of coastal communities.  It aims to bring the policies that have been adopted at the regional and national level to the communities who are at the front lines of climate change.

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New Book: Climate Change Negotiations A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante (27 Mar 2013)

Climate Change Negotiations

A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation

Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

Published 27th March 2013 by Routledge – 480 pages

Description:

As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation asks how these persistent obstacles can be down-scaled, approaching them from five professional perspectives: a top policy-maker, a senior negotiator, a leading scientist, an international lawyer, and a sociologist who is observing the process.

The authors identify the major problems, including great power strategies (the EU, the US and Russia), leadership, the role of NGOs, capacity and knowledge-building, airline industry emissions, insurance and risk transfer instruments, problems of cost benefit analysis, the IPCC in the post-Kyoto situation, and verification and institutional design. A new key concept is introduced: strategic facilitation. 'Strategic facilitation' has a long time frame, a forward-looking orientation and aims to support the overall negotiation process rather than individual actors.

This book is aimed at academics, university students and practitioners who are directly or indirectly engaged in the international climate negotiation as policy makers, diplomats or experts.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction Gunnar Sjöstedt and Ariel Macaspac Penetrante 

Part 2: Professional Perspectives
1. The perspective of a Politician - How Decisions are Made Josef Proell, Helmut Hojesky and Werner Wutscher
2. The New Diplomacy from the Perspective of a Diplomat - Facilitation of the Post-Kyoto Climate Talks Bo Kjellén
3. Costs and Uncertanties in Climate Change Negotiations: A Scientist's Perspective Bert Bolin
4. The Observing International LawyerFranz Cede and Gerhard Loibl
5. Climate Talks - The Observing Sociologist Guy Olivier Faure

Part 3: Stumbling blocks 6. Defining a Politically Feasible Path for Future Climate Negotiations - the EU-USA divide over the Kyoto Protocol Urs Steiner Brandt
7. Between Two Giants – Lessons from the Russian Policy on Kyoto Protocol Vasily Sokolov
8. Leadership and Climate Talks—Historical Lessons in Agenda Setting Steiner Andresen
9. GO Participation in the Global Climate Change Decision-making Process - A Key for Facilitating Climate Talks Norichika Kanie 10. Institutional Capacity to Facilitate Climate Change Negotiations Angela Churie Kallhauge & Lisa van Well
11. Stumbling Blocks in a Sectoral Approach - Addressing the Global Warming Effect through the Airline Industry Lucas Bobes
12. Overcoming stumbling blocks: Can the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deliver in Adaptation? Tora Skodvin
13. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities — The North-South Divide in the Climate Change Negotiations Ariel Macaspac Penetrante
14. Developing a Legal Toolkit– Institutional Options to Remove Stumbling Blocks in the Climate Change Negotiations Dirk Hanschel
15. Verification as a Precondition for Binding Commitments – Facilitation through Trust Larry MacFaul
16. Difficulties of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Climate Negotiations: Stumbling Blocks for Reaching an Agreement Charles Pearson
17. Proposal for Insurance for Facilitation of Adaptation Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, M.J. Mace & Reinhard Mechler 

Part 4: Conclusion: Strategic Facilitation of Climate Talks Gunnar Sjöstedt and Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

For more information: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781844074648/

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Updates: Greenpeace, Guide to Greener Electronics (Nov 2012)

Guide to Greener Electronics

		WIPRO 7.1/10 Wipro, an Indian electronics company that has previously participated in Indian editions of the Guide, makes its debut in the international version of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics with 7.1 points – placing it in 1st position.  Download Wipro report card
		HP 5.7/10 HP is still above most companies on the ranking, but has lost its top spot from the most recent edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, and now sits in 2nd position, with 5.7 points, behind newcomer Wipro.  Download HP report card
		NOKIA 5.4/10 Nokia moves up to 3rd position in this edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. After three years at 1st position, Nokia fell to 3rd in last year’s edition.  Download Nokia report card
		ACER 5.1/10 Acer moves up the ranking to 4th position, with a score of 5.1. Acer is showing a larger leadership role in its conversations with suppliers on a range of issues. This has resulted in increase scoring across the three criteria.  Download Acer report card
		DELL 4.6/10 Dell drops to 5th position, with 4.6 points. While Dell scores high overall, the company scores poorly on all Products criteria.  Download Dell report card
		APPLE 4.5/10 Apple drops to 6th position, with a score of 4.6. Though one of the high scorers in this edition, Apple misses out on points for lack of transparency.  Download Apple report card
		SAMSUNG 4.2/10 Samsung moves up to 7th position, with 4.2 points in this year’s Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. Samsung is close to achieving a revised goal of eliminating some of the most hazardous substances from its products. Download Samsung report card
		SONY 4.1/10 Sony moves up to 8th position, with 4.1 points. Sony was a top scorer in last year’s Guide; it has lost significant points for not continuing its energy policy advocacy work for tougher greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets.  Download Sony report card
		LENOVO 3.9/10 Lenovo drops to 9th place in this edition of the Guide. Lenovo made progress since the last Guide, but did not reach its extended goal of eliminating these chemicals from all its products by the end of 2011.  Download Lenovo report card
		PHILIPS 3.8/10 Philips moves down to 10th position in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, with 3.8 points.  Download Philips report card

For more ranks and information: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it/Campaign-analysis/Guide-to-Greener-Electronics/

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