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OUR PLANET MAGAZINE
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CRYOSPHERE
OUR
PLANET
Helen Bjørnøy, Minister of the
Environment of Norway...
...calls for political leadership to revive international
negotiations -- and keep the world's ice frozen.
...asks for commitment at the political,
corporate and grassroots level to combat
climate change.
a different planet - page 7
...outlines new solutions for an
accumulating problem, and
describes how his country is
aiming to become carbon neutral.
new dynamics - page 12
Roberto Dobles, Minister of Environment
and Energy of Costa Rica and President of
UNEP's Governing Council and the Global
Ministerial Environment Forum...
agenda for action
- page 9
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, 2005
UNEP Champion of the
Earth for North America, and
International Chair of the
Inuit Circumpolar Conference
20022006...
...argues that the effects of climate change on
the Arctic and its people should be seen as a
matter of human rights.
a human issue - page 14
Yvo de Boer, Executive
Secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on
Climate Change...
china: climate change
and development - page 16
...examines the challenge before the
world's fastest developing nation.
Qin Dahe, co-Chair, Working Group 1
of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change and, until April
2007, Administrator of the China
Meteorological Administration...
Susana Bischoff, Graciela Canziani and
Patricia Centurión, explain the importance of
water from glaciers and snowmelt in Latin America
and suggest how to adapt to its disappearance.
snow, ice and life - page 18
Linda Fisher, Vice President and Chief
Sustainability Officer of Dupont...
action works - page 22
...calls for a coordinated global approach
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Basanta Shrestha, Division Head of
Mountain Environment and Natural
Resources Information System at the
International Centre for Integrated
Mountain Development...
Peter Garrett, rock star,
campaigner and politician...
...describes the rapid retreat of the glaciers
of the Himalayas and calls for urgent
action to tackle the resulting dangers.
mountain tsunamis - page 20
also
page 3 reflections
page 4 people
page 8 verbatim and numbers
page 9 books
page 24 awards and events
page 25 www
page 26 products
...describes climate change as a "once in a
generation opportunity.
green soundtrack - page 27
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