We can’t make this stuff up. Here is where we found the clues to help us decode climate change policy terms.
What is Cap and Trade?
Trillion-dollar carbon marketplace:
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
http://www.cftc.gov/newsroom/MediaAdvisory/2009/mediaadvisory061109.html
What is Climate Adaptation?
Temperature Changes:
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States study by United States Global Change Research Program, June 16, 2009
http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
Impact on developing countries
Testimony of David Waskow , Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam America
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance,
Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection
October 15, 2009
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2009/WaskowTestimony091015a.pdf
What is REDD or Deforestation?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-chapter9.pdf
What is Climate Finance
Interview with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yves De Boer
http://blocksindicator.com/what-sort-of-agreement-at-copenhagen/
World Resources Institute Per Capita CO2 Emissions Chart
http://www.wri.org/chart/capita-co2-emissions-select-major-emitters-2007-and-2030-projected
What is the UNFCCC?
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
“Protocols work” (CFCs in ozone layer)
http://www.undp.org/chemicals/montrealprotocol.htm
What is Technology Transfer?
“$18 billion in HIV medications assistance to developing countries”
US Department of State
http://www.america.gov/st/healthenglish/2008/July/20080731143520lcnirellep0.4708826.html&distid=ucs
What are cow burps?
Articles that provide additional background regarding cow burps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/jul/10/ruralaffairs.climatechange
http://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-meat-methane-CO2
