Economic and environmental choices in the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations

Article Abstract:

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change aimed to stabilize greenhouse- gas concentrations to prevent anthropogenic interference that might be harmful to the climate system. Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change drew up some illustrative paths to stabilize the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. However, such stabilization profiles must always balance benefits and cost. The WGI profiles should then reflect that the resulting emissions trajectories must first track a 'business as usual' path.

Analysis, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Europe agrees to seek new climate targets

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Environment ministers of the members states of the European Union (EU) participating in a meeting of the members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change, have decided to obtain a new protocol on limiting carbon dioxide emissions beyond the year 2000. However, it is uncertain if these states will keep up their promise of restricting greenhouse gases to their 1990 level. The EU has planned to put forth its decisions at a summit meeting on climate change in Berlin.

European Union

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Grant challenges role of peer review in an age of e-mail

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Paul Ginsparg, a high energy physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico has been awarded a grant of more than US $ 1 million to expand his electronic archive of research articles. The main novelty of Ginsparg's system is that it allows public commentaries to be added to papers which are archived and indexed for later retrieval. Electronic libraries such as these will enable storage of information locally, give access to researchers from their desktops.

Innovations, Achievements and awards, Electronic publishing, Databases, Information storage and retrieval systems, Archival materials, Ginsparg, Paul

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