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Subject:      ECIX Climate Files 10/92

CLIMATE CHANGE INFORMATION FROM THE
ENERGY AND CLIMATE INFORMATION EXCHANGE (ECIX)

The Energy and Climate Information Exchange (ECIX) is a project
of EcoNet aimed at educating environmental groups and the general
public on the potential of energy efficiency and renewable energy
to reduce the use of fossil fuels and their contribution to
climate change. ECIX is supported by the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore
Foundation and the Energy Foundation.

As part of its mission, ECIX now offers as a public service the
following electronic information files on climate change and
related issues at no cost.

Updated October, 1992

NEW FILES:

ECIX Newsletters Issues 10 & 11
Climate Digest Issues 9 & 10
Tiempo Issue #6
Hot News Issues 4 & 5
ECIXTC
CLIMDIGTC
TIEMPOTC
ECOTC
GREENFRIG
GWFAQ1
NGOCLIMTREATY
EPAODS
OZGREEN692
CO2CALC

(note to APC subscribers - all of these files can be found in the
conferences climate.news, en.climate, en.energy, and transport)
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* ECIX Newsletters

The newsletters contain highlights of conference postings on
EcoNet relating to energy and climate change, full length
articles, calendars, project updates, and more.

ECIXTC (13K) - Tables of contents for all issues.  Updated
regularly.

ECIX1_JUN91  (28K) #1  - June, 1991
ECIX2_AUG91  (39K) #2  - August, 1991
ECIX3_SEP91  (37K) #3  - September, 1991
ECIX4_OCT91  (44K) #4  - October, 1991
ECIX5_DEC91  (37K) #5  - December, 1991
ECIX6_JAN92  (35K) #6  - January, 1992
ECIX7_MAR92  (52K) #7  - March, 1992
ECIX8_APR92  (43K) #8  - April, 1992
ECIX9_JUN92  (38K) #9  - June, 1992
ECIX10_JUL92 (43K) #10 - July, 1992
ECIX11_SEP92 (40K) #11 - September, 1992

(ftp subdirectory /pub/ECIX)

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* ECIX Climate Digest

The Climate Digest contains highlights of climate news and
discussions on EcoNet, Frequently Asked Questions, summaries of
responses to a regular climate poll, and contributions from
readers.

CLIMDIGTC (12K) - Tables of contents for all issues.  Updated
regularly.

CLIMDIG1_AUG91  (16K) #1  - August, 1991
CLIMDIG2_SEP91  (30K) #2  - September, 1991
CLIMDIG3_OCT91  (38K) #3  - October, 1991
CLIMDIG4_DEC91  (40K) #4  - December, 1991
CLIMDIG5_JAN92  (63K) #5  - January, 1992
CLIMDIG6_MAR92  (57K) #6  - March, 1992
CLIMDIG7_APR92  (53K) #7  - April, 1992
CLIMDIG8_JUN92  (53K) #8  - June, 1992
CLIMDIG9_JUL92  (58K) #9  - July, 1992
CLIMDIG10_SEP92 (58K) #10 - September, 1992

(ftp subdirectory /pub/ECIX)

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* ECO Newsletters

ECO Newsletters are written by NGOs and published by Media Natura
(London, UK) at meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change. Each file
contains all of the issues (8-10) from a single session.

ECOTC (76K) - Tables of contents for all issues.

ECOCHANT2-91   (235/101K) From Chantilly (DC), February 1991
ECOGENEVA6-91  (350/150K) From Geneva, June 1991
ECONAIROBI9-91 (276/114K) From Nairobi, September 1991
ECOGENEVA12-91 (320/130K) From Geneva, December 1991
ECONEWYORK2-92 (328/133K) From New York, February 1992
ECONEWYORK5-92  (230/94K) From New York, April-May, 1992
ECORIO              (28K) Special Earth Summit Issue, June 1992

(Note to those using ftp to retrieve files - all back issues of
ECO except for the Rio issue have been compressed to conserve
disk space. The file size is shown as the full size first,
compressed size second.  All files have the extension .Z, should
be retrieved in binary mode, and must be expanded using the UNIX
command uncompress <filename> once you have retrieved them.
Subdirectory for ECO files is /pub/ECO)

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* Tiempo Bulletins

Tiempo, a bulletin on global warming and the Third World, is
published by the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and the
International Institute for Environment and Development (London,
UK) with support from the Swedish International Development
Authority.

TIEMPOTC (7K) - Tables of contents for all issues.  Updated
regularly.

TIEMPO1 (42K) Issue #1 - April, 1991
TIEMPO2 (64K) Issue #2 - July, 1991
TIEMPO3 (78K) Issue #3 - November, 1991
TIEMPO4 (70K) Issue #4 - February, 1992
TIEMPO5 (75K) Issue #5 - May, 1992
TIEMPO6 (73K) Issue #6 - September, 1992

(ftp subdirectory /pub/ECIX)

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* Hot News

Hot News, the quarterly newsletter of the Climate Action Network,
United Kingdom.

HOTNEWS4 (52K) Climate Change & Conservation - Autumn 1991
HOTNEWS5 (45K) Sea Level Rise - Winter 1992
HOTNEWS6 (42K) Renewable Energy - Summer 1992

(ftp subdirectory /pub/ECIX)

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* Other Files:

Agenda 21 Atmosphere Section (31K) - The final draft of the
section of Agenda 21, "Protection of the Atmosphere" which was
drafted at the Earth Summit in Rio. Ask for file A21ATMOS.
(Complete text of Agenda 21 can be found in the ftp subdirectory
/pub/UNCED)

Australia Draft National Greenhouse Response Strategy (181K) -
Working paper.  Ask for file OZGREEN692.

Calculate Your CO2 Emissions (15K) - Summary of various methods
for calculating your personal CO2 emissions, including tables for
comparison to per capita averages for various nations of the
world.  Ask for file CO2CALC.

The Case Against Climate Aid (41K) - An article from The
Ecologist, which reviews why aid to developing countries to
combat climate change may not be desirable, by Patrick McCully.
Ask for file NOAID.

CFC-free refrigerators (29K) - Information about a new German
CFC-free refrigerator called Green Freeze.  Ask for file
GREENFRIG.

Climate Convention (66K) - The full text of the Climate
Convention which was finalized in May and signed by over 150
countries at the Earth Summit in June, 1992. Ask for file
CLIMCONV.

CO2 Challenge Educators Kit (30K) - Developed by the Children's
Earth Fund to promote awareness of climate change and the
greenhouse effect in grades K-12. Ask for file CO2KIT.

EPA List of Ozone Depleting Substances (30K) - Detailed list of
CFCs, halons, and HCFCs addressed by the Clean Air Act with ODPs
and background information.  Ask for file EPAODS.

FAQ: Sea Level, Ice, and Greenhouses (22K) - This is the complete
text of an FAQ on sea level rise and the possible impacts of
melting glacial and polar ice, as posted by Bob Grumbine on
sci.environment and sci.geo.meteorology.  Ask for file GWFAQ1.

Global Warming Negotiations: Does Fairness Matter? (28K) - by H.
Peyton Young and Amanda Wolf. This article looks at the role of
equity in a global warming or climate agreement. They conclude
that equity is a "complicated, nuanced business that cannot be
reduced to simple recipes like grandfathering present emissions
or handing out equal numbers of permits to everyone. The paper is
forthcoming in: The Brookings Review, Spring 1992 (V.10, N.2),
and is distributed with the authors' permission. Ask for file
FAIRWARM.

Greenhouse Blues (56K) - A fresh and thought provoking look at
the science, policy, and controversy surrounding the greenhouse
effect, by Tom Athanasiou. Ask for file GHBLUES.

IPCC 1992 Report Summary (20K) - A summary of the findings of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1992 report. Ask for
file IPCC92.

NGO Climate Treaty (10K) - Final text of the treaty on climate
drafted by NGOs at the Earth Summit, June 1992.  Ask for file
NGOCLIMTREATY.

TERC Ozone Monitoring Project (44K) - The Technical Education
Research Center's (TERC) Global Laboratory Project is an
international telecommunications-based environmental initiative.
One of the current activities of the Global Laboratory concerns
development of a stratospheric ozone monitoring network
consisting of schools around the world. This file has details
about the project and how to get involved. Ask for file TERCINFO.

Clean Air Act: The full text of the Clean Air Act is available by
ftp ONLY. This is a compressed file, clean-air.Z, which is 360K
compressed!  If you do not have ftp access, you can obtain a copy
on diskette for $10 from EcoNet.  Contact soledad@igc.apc.org for
details.

(ftp subdirectory /pub/ECIXfiles)

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Subscriptions by e-mail: All of the newsletters listed above can
be subscribed to via e-mail at no charge. ECO is published only
from meetings of the INC - at this time no future issues are
scheduled but you may request that you be notified should
publication resume. The ECIX Newsletter and Climate Digest are
published together every six weeks. Tiempo comes out
approximately every two months. Send subscription requests to
larris@igc.apc.org.

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Note to Internet users: Files are also available in the ftp
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standard anonymous ftp login. Subdirectories are listed for each
group of files. For more help, ask for file FTPINFO.

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ECIX is brought to you by:

* Lelani Arris, ECIX Project Direct............larris@igc.apc.org
* Tom Gray, ECIX Energy Issues Facilitator......tgray@igc.apc.org
* Dan Yurman, ECIX Climate Digest Editor.......ecixdy@igc.apc.org

ECIX is an EcoNet project funded by a grant from the Joyce
Mertz-Gilmore Foundation with added support from the Energy
Foundation.

For more information about ECIX or EcoNet please write Lelani or
Tom.
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