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IPCC WGIII Fourth Assessment Report, Second Order Draft
SPM- 30 A 17 5 17 5
(Mitsutsune Yamaguchi, Teikyo University)
Table SPM 3. The signals +,-, 0, ? , are policy prescriptive and See A-1200
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controversial. The table is good enough without that, don’t spoil it.
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(Juan F Llanes-Regueiro, Havana University)
SPM- 30 A 17 5 17 0 Table SPM.3 Row 5: Finding that technology cooperation generally See A-1200
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does not meet criterion seems to run counter to emphasis and
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importance placed on technology development and transfer
throughout report. U.S. Government
(Government of U.S. Department of State)
SPM- 30 A 17 40 17 0 Table SPM.3, last row, entry under “Environmental Effectiveness”, See A-1200
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modify the last sentence as follows: “Specific development policies
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may have a positive or negative affect on climate.” The Report
should distinguish between “climate” and “climate damages” on
one hand, and “climate change” and “climate change damages” on
the other. Most of the damages we see today are due to climate and
its inherent variability. In the future, as climate changes, the
damages due to climate change will probably grow (all else being
equal) and eventually exceed those due to the “baseline” climate
(for lack of a better term). Until that occurs, the benefits of
increasing adaptive capacity to cope with current climate (and
variability) will exceed the benefits of reducing climate-changerelated
damages. See Goklany (2003, 2005a, 2006a) for a more
detailed explanation. References: (1) Goklany, IM. 2003. Relative
Contributions of Global Warming to Various Climate Sensitive
Risks, and Their Implications for Adaptation and Mitigation.
Energy & Environment 14: 797-822. (2) Goklany, IM. 2005a. A
Climate Policy for the Short and Medium Term: Stabilization or
Adaptation? Energy & Environment 16: 667-680. (3) Goklany, IM.
2006a. Integrated Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability and Advance
Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development. Mitigation
and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, forthcoming. U.S.
Government
(Government of U.S. Department of State)
SPM- 30 A 17 0 17 0 Table SPM3: I can not agree with the table at all. This table should See A-1200
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