PRESENTATION ONE - FORMAT

Energy and Climate Impacts

Presentation Goal: Collecting and analyzing information about your country’s background, energy, environmental characteristics and climate impacts to be able to negotiate from an expert position.

3 General Topics

1. General Background information on your country

2. Energy

3. Range and Depth of Climate Impacts

Ideas for the background of Country

• Land area/location

• GDP

• GDP Real Growth Rate

• % of GDP from Industry

• Top industries large energy users or pollution producers?

• % of electricity production is by fossil fuels

• Number of automobiles?

• population growth rate & total population

• Environmental Agreements party to

• Status of Kyoto for country

• Main industries/exports-imports

• Tourism

• Average income per capita

• Ecological footprint (country)

• literacy/education levels

• Poverty rate--number living on less than $1/day; $2/day

• Access to Technology--internet

Energy & Consumption Issues on which to focus include:

• Main sources of energy
• Current emissions estimates for GHG's for your country
• Estimated reserves of GHG producing energy sources
• Current emissions standards for your country/region (any)
• Known or suspected health effects at current emission levels
• Current and projected population, population growth rate
• Consumption patterns and/or rates
• Alternative energy resources being investigated
• Projected growth rate of alternative energy sources
• Environmental status of your country with regards to air and water pollution
• Trash/Garbage--where? How much?

Climate Impacts to focus include (examine area in IPCC WG2 first):

• Climate extremes/storms
• Variations in weather
• Floods and droughts
• Sea level rise (SLR) and coastal flooding
• Coastal Erosion
• Agriculture and forestry impacts
• Freshwater loss
• Biodiversity loss
• Health related impacts: mosquito born diseases, contaminated water supplies, increased pesticide use, respiratory diseases
• Cultural loss or impact (i.e. way of life)
• Food security/Agriculture
• Garbage impact
• Marine ecosystem/corals
• Tourism impact

Useful websites

CIA World Fact Book

UNEP’s Global Resource Info Database (GRID) Global Environmental Outlook 3

UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook 2000

World Resources Institute EarthTrends, The Environmental

Harvard Medical School’s Quarterly Review on Human Health Affects of Climate Change

Center for Global Development: Global Warming and Agriculture (Country Impacts)

IPCC (2007) WG2, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

•     Chapter 9: Africa

•     Chapter 10: Asia

•     Chapter 11: Australia/NZ

•     Chapter 12: Europe

•     Chapter 13: Latin America

•     Chapter 14: North America

•     Chapter 15: Polar Regions

•     Chapter 16: Small Islands

UNFCCC Green House Gas Inventory Database

Green Energy; (links put together by students at UC Berkeley)

Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

UNEP Environment and Assessment Technical Report: Global Assessment of Acidification and Eutrophication of Natural Ecosystems

EU Related Policies: Global Change, Climate & Biodiversity

European Commission: Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development

Assessing Climate Change Affects on Land Use and Ecosystems (Funded by the European Commission)

European Forest Institute history and projections