9. Kyoto Protocol
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) (International Review For Environmental Strategies, Volume 5, NO. 1: "THE KYOTO PROTOCOL") released a special featured issue of International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) on the Kyoto Protocol: its development, implications and the future. This IRES issue contains the latest analyses and future forecasts by experts from all over the world. Leading thinkers in the climate policy arena, such as Michael Grubb, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, and Michael Zammit Cutajar, Former Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), give their views and assessments on the Kyoto Protocol and its future implications in this issue. Country views from many experts, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, PRC, India, Australia, and Japan, are also provided. Their perspectives vary widely, such as on the value and effects of the Kyoto Protocol, its barriers, its status in the context of domestic policies, and the possibilities of the post-Kyoto regime.
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10. Methane Energy Partnership
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that 13 countries have joined the Methane to Markets Partnership, an international effort to capture methane emissions and convert them into energy. In the United States, the major source of methane emissions is landfill gas, but the partnership also focuses on recovering methane from coal mines and from natural gas and oil systems. Methane to Markets has the potential to reduce net methane emissions by up to 50 million metric tons of carbon equivalent annually by 2015, equivalent to eliminating the carbon emissions from 50 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants. Representatives from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, PRC, Colombia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom joined the United States in signing a document to formally create the Methane to Markets Partnership. See the EPA press release and the EPA's Methane to Markets Web site.
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11. CO2 Emissions Data
The International Energy Agency (IEA, "CO2 EMISSIONS FROM FUEL COMBUSTION 1971-2002," 2004) released this publication on CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in preparation for the Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP-10) meeting under the U.N. Climate Convention in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 to 17 December 2004. The data are designed to assist in understanding the evolution of these emissions from 1971 to 2002 for more than 140 countries and regions by sector and by fuel. Emissions were calculated using IEA energy databases and the default methods and emission factors from the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
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