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Aviation and global climate change
Friends of the Earth, 2001A policy document outlining the potential impacts of aviation emissions on climate change and the potential impacts of climate change on a number of sectors. The FOE call for a sustainable aviation policy where the polluter pays principle is used and a reduction in air travel generally.DocumentAviation and the environment: using economic instruments
2003This is an outline document of the options available to the UK government in ensuring that the aviation industry is encouraged to take account of, and where appropriate reduce, its contribution to global warming, local air and noise pollution.The report states that the government's objectives for aviation include sustainability and the polluter pays principle.DocumentClimate change and the skiing industry: impacts and potential responses
University of Lapland Arctic Centre, 2001This paper looks at the environmental impacts of skiing on mountain ecosystems, the economic importance of skiing for many communities and the potential consequences of climate change for both.The author states that climate change may cause skiing to become unviable in a number of resorts, which would be economically bad for residents but may be ecologically good for the areas that have been imDocumentHigh stakes: the future for mountain societies
Panos Institute, London, 2002This report looks at the threats that face mountain environments and the people that live in them. It describes a 'vertical gradient of poverty' whereby 80 per cent of mountain inhabitants live below the poverty line. The authors describe the political, cultural and social marginalisation of many mountain communities.DocumentPreparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.DocumentThe CDM guidebook: a resource for clean development mechanism Project developers in Southern Africa
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2002This practical guidebook is directed at smaller-scale local partners in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects – small businesses, non-governmental organisations and community based organisations – to empower them to put forward project ideas, particularly ideas with a development focus.DocumentGlobal trade and consumer choices: coral reefs in crisis
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002The document contains five papers presented at a symposium.The first presents an overview of the value of coral reef ecosystems to developing countries the impacts of international trade on coral reefs and local communitiesthe role of the U.S.