PRESENTATION ONE - FORMAT

Emissions, Energy, and Climate Impacts

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

5 General Topics

1. General Background information on your country

2. Emissions Profile

3. Energy

4. Range and Depth of Climate Impacts

5. Plans to Mitigate

I. 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

II. GHG Emissions Profile

• Total GHG Emissions 1990-Present (usually data from 2006 or 2007)

• Changes in GHG Emissions 1990-Present

• GHG Emissions per capita

• Changes in GHG Emissions per capita

• GHG Emissions per GDP Unit (carbon intensity)

• What GHG constitutes the driving force of change in overall emissions

• Sectoral Analysis of GHG Emissions (e.g. Energy, manufacturing, transportation, Agriculture, Waste, etc)

Helpful Links:

GHG Profiles (Annex I) (Non-Annex I)

National Reports/Communications (Annex I) (Non-Annex I): Search for your country by name, and retrieve the most recent report.

** You can use LULUCF data or not, just specify.

** LULUCF: Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (i.e. how much of a sink/source land use constitutes)

III. 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?

IV. 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

IV. Current Plans to Mitigate (Basic Info)

• Newspaper Articles/Mags/Journal Articles on Country

• National Reports (see above links)

• To what degree, if Annex I country, have they complied with Kyoto?

• Challenges to Mitigation--specific challenges within the country to meeting Kyoto obligations

• Stance on emissions trading?

• Influence of 'carbon sinks' in mitigating GCC (e.g. land use, possibly lots of forests to offset carbon emissions)

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