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Contents CLIMATE INSTITUTE Climate Institute...... 2 THE CHALLENGE The Challenge ...... 3 he Climate Institute is an international leader in Current Projects ...... 4 T he impacts of climate change are numerous. moving nations, regions, and TFor the past thousands of years the Earth’s climate has Third Decade Campaign ...... 5 people to address climate fluctuated. A shift of a few degrees in the global temperatures History...... 6 change in a collaborative has transformed a world covered by glaciers to a world without manner and protect the glaciers at all, and this cycle has repeated. Today, this cycle Board of Directors...... 7 balance between climate and continues; however, at a speed unknown to the past. With Board of Advisors...... 8 life on earth. Founded in human’s influence, it now only takes decades for changes Donors & Partners...... 9 1986, the Institute was the that once took millennia. What these changes could mean, to first non-profit organization Earth, to ecosystems, to humans must be considered, and we Climate Institute Activities...... 10 established primarily to believe be acted upon. address climate change issues. It has distinguished itself around the world by promoting As greenhouse gases increasingly make up a larger part of global climate balance with practical and cooperative approaches. our atmosphere more and more energy is absorbed into Earth’s system from the sun. This addition of energy contributes to Working with an extensive network of experts and alliances the melting of glaciers and expansion of the oceans which in the United States and internationally, the Climate Institute is results in sea level rise. Additionally, this influx of fresh water uniquely positioned to inform key decision makers, heighten and CO2 will change the salinity and acidity of the oceans international awareness of climate change, and identify practical potentially slowing, or stopping currents, and destroying the Global mean sea level is projected to rise ways of achieving significant coral reefs. Species extinctions could accelerate, and more by 0.09 to 0.88 m between the years 1990 and 2100, for the full range of SRES scenarios, but emissions reductions. Scientists, intense storms could become more likely. Low elevation with significant regional variations… Tens of Staff policy leaders, and media around islands and coastal areas could disappear underwater. Future the world recognize the Institute millions of people living in deltas, in low-lying generations would have to deal with the problems their coastal areas, and on small islands will face risk John Topping as a valuable source of reliable and ancestors helped create. of displacement.” (IPCC) President objective information. The Climate Institute builds Nasir Khattak “The projected concentration of CO2 in the international awareness of climate enewable energy provides hope for the Director of Global Environmental change and identifies practical year 2100 ranges from 540 to 970 ppm, compared to about 280 ppm in the pre-industrial era and future. The world’s demand for energy will continue Programs ways of achieving significant R about 368 ppm in the year 2000.” (IPCC) to increase dramatically during the next century even with emissions reductions by Alexis Sloan Nussbaum energy efficiency improvements. Most of today’s power Director of Research and Operations • organizing symposia, conferences, roundtables, and special comes from fossil fuels, which many countries, notably briefings, which have previously been convened in the U.S., the United States, must import from other countries. Lina Karaoglanova Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and over 30 developing Renewable energy sources –biomass, geothermal, hydro, Research Associate countries solar, tidal, wind— offer great promise throughout the • building capacity to respond to climate impacts such as more world, not only in generating clean energy, but also to Hon. Tom Roper intense tropical storms through means including improved improve local health, develop local jobs, and increase Project Leader, coastal management in island nations national security. Global Sustainable Energy Islands • working with the governments, institutions and communities Even with these benefits, renewable energy faces many Initiative to reduce their carbon footprint by utilizing energy efficient challenges. Renewables generally have a higher up front and renewable energy technologies cost. We at the Climate Institute try to promote renewable Luis Roberto Acosta energy in regions where it is most practical, those places Director, Latin American Regional • providing online information on climate change and serving in which it is a cost effective option, and where it confers Activities as a forum for fostering cooperation internationally and many local benefits. Every watt of renewable power across various sectors within the U.S. is one step on Michael MacCracken The Climate Institute receives financial support from the long road to Chief Scientist for Climate Change membership, private and corporate contributions, and grants, mitigating the Programs providing services for government agencies and nonprofit consequences of organizations. The Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable climate change. Jack Werner educational organization. Every gallon of Senior Associate alternative fuel f o r v e h i c l e s i s a n o t h e r important step.

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  Protecting the Balance Between Climate and Life on Earth Climate Institute Twentieth Anniversary The Present – Current Projects mall islands can make a huge difference: Climate The Future — The Third Decade Campaign SInstitute is working with several members of the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) on a global program to assist the island nations in their efforts to transform their energy systems he Climate Institute has earned a reputation as a bridge between the scientific and policymaking from a fossil fuel base to renewables. Global Sustainable Energy Tcommunities, and as a catalyst in stimulating cooperative action both in the U.S. and internationally. Islands Initiative (GSEII), a consortium of international NGOs As the Institute prepares to enter its third decade, it seeks to build on its strengths developed over 20 and multi-lateral institutions was established in 2000 to assist years in shaping and implementing a strategy to move the world toward climate stabilization through the small island developing nations in adopting sustainable two major initiatives, the International Leadership Alliance for Climate Stabilization and an Outreach on energy systems compatible with their economies. The small Climate Change Science and Impacts. islands states are least responsible and most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. These islands in most cases are 1) The International Leadership Alliance for Climate Stabilization will be the keystone of the Climate dependent on expensive imports of fossil fuels; nearly all are Institute’s Third Decade Campaign. The Alliance will build upon and expand the Institute’s previous work geographically suited to take advantage of the natural and in explaining the risks of climate change and how best to manage those risks. Since 2000, the Institute renewable energy resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal has been the managing partner of the Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative. This Initiative is and biomass. Currently this program is active in St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean, assisting six island nations to prepare and implement sustainable energy plans and has already resulted and the Marshall Islands and Fiji in the Pacific. in several multi-million dollar implementation projects. The International Leadership Alliance for Climate Stabilization will

pinning the web can capture minds. The Climate • Expand the Islands Initiative to as many as 12 island states; SInstitute is supporting its work in other countries with outreach through the world wide web. An online catalogue, assist these island nations to develop more comprehensive climate by country and region, is being created of climate- focused protection plans (coastal management, hurricane preparedness, and organizations throughout the world. On a more local level, emergency planning); and maintain synergy in such planning. the Climate Institute is working to facilitate greening of college campuses using an informational site as well as • Launch a state/provincial governments’ leadership initiative on an online forum. Climate.org has become a heavily visited climate change and sustainable energy for states/provinces in populous resource on climate science, potential impacts and workable developing nations. Climate protection and sustainable energy plans responses. Recently it has also highlighted ferment in and their implementation will occur in up to five states/provinces in the popular culture- cartoons, videos, films, and religious the first three years. Dialogue is in progress with interested states activism-related to climate. in Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, India, and Indonesia.

oving the science to a higher level. The Institute 2) The Outreach on Climate Change Science and Impacts and its Mexican partner, SIMA, are literally doing that, M program will provide up-to-date and reliable information building the world’s highest altitude climate observatory on on climate change and facilitate action. This involves a mountain in Mexico. The Observatory will track CO2 and UV levels and dust particles from Africa and the Amazon. Instruments and computer equipment have been obtained • Reaching the policy community in the Washington, and architectural plans completed. Construction should DC, area through a series of conferences, symposia, start in early 2007. The Institute’s Chief Scientist played a and briefings. key role in the Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment and the Institute is active in outreach efforts on Arctic impacts. • Serving as an intermediary between the participating island nations/states/provinces and private sector upporting state and local government groups in North America, Europe, Australia, and Encouraging young environmental leaders. Sinnovation. The Climate Institute is helping Japan, including community organizations, religious Over 150 students and recent graduates from twenty state and local governments to identify their groups, universities, and other civic groups; regional nations have interned at the Climate Institute; many have energy efficiency and renewable energy needs and become environmental leaders. In 2002 the Institute in institutions; and international institutions that can cooperation with the Class of 1964 of Dartmouth College to chart a clear course of action. The Institute provide resources necessary to implement sustainable set up an environmental leadership program in memory has helped educate state and local officials, energy and climate protection plans. of Gordon MacDonald, an Institute Board member community leaders, businesses and utilities AOSIS has a membership of 43 States who founded Dartmouth’s Environmental Studies in using clean energy partnership programs • Building www.climate.org into one of the most user- and observers, drawn from all oceans and Program. Since then several hundred students from regions of the world: Africa, Caribbean, to achieve air quality improvements, pollution friendly Internet sources on the risks of climate change Dartmouth and other colleges have participated in prevention and economic development. Recent Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Pacific and informal dinner discussions hosted by the Institute and a guide to the extensive information available on the South China Sea. Thirty-seven are members efforts have sought to leverage Federal and State with Washington policy hands and visiting experts. The Internet on climate science and mitigation strategies. of the United Nations, close to 28 percent of program has also placed several students abroad for incentives to foster use of biomass for fuel, developing countries, and 20 percent of the work or research opportunities. power and for making of chemicals, plastics and UN’s total membership. cellulose fiber.

  Protecting the Balance Between Climate and Life on Earth Climate Institute Twentieth Anniversary The Past - Celebrating Twenty Years

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William A. Nitze CHAIRMAN chairman of gridpoint Sir Crispin Tickell Chairman Emeritus Chancellor, Kent University Mark Goldberg Vice CHAIRMAN Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy, National Coalition on Health Care Climate Institute Board of Directors and Board of Advisors Members meeting at Green Paul C. Pritchard * College, Oxford University, April 1992. Founding Chairman n its 20 years of existence the Climate Institute Tickell. A landmark report published by the Task Force in July President, National Park Trust Ihas been a catalyst in moving the world to 2001 provides a detailed blueprint for the partnership initially John C. Topping address climate change in a cooperative manner. It advanced in Manila in 1995. President & CEO, Climate Institute is one of the leading international NGOs of scientists and policy For the past seven years the Climate Institute has also leaders concerned with climate change and protection of the championed coordinated strategies for climate and air quality. John P. Bond Dr. Lee W. Huebner DIRECTOR, stratospheric ozone layer. In September 1999, it convened a North American Symposium GENERAL COUNSEL SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, GEORGE in Mexico City to map how strategies for climate and air quality The Climate Institute has registered many firsts - organizing Attorney WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY the first broad scale climate change conference inNorth America protection can be carried out in a harmonized manner. Mexico in 1987, the first climate change symposium for UN missions in City has already begun to implement such a strategy and New Dr. Noel Brown Dr. Michael McElroy 1988, and the first major climate conference in theMiddle East Hampshire, in 2002, became the first US state to enact such a PRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF THE UNITED NATIONS PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, HARVARD law. UNIVERSITY in 1989 in Cairo, Egypt. From 1991-1992, it organized climate Joseph A. Cannon change briefings for heads of state and Cabinet ministers in 22 Additionally, since 1998, the Climate Institute has worked PARTNER, PILLSBURY, WINTHROP, SHAW PITTMAN Dr. Shuzo Nishioka * nations and helped lay the groundwork for the signing of the closely with a number of small island nations to enhance their DIRECTOR OF National institute for environmental Hon. Claudine Cmarada Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro. capacity to respond to climate change. This effort has evolved studies, environment agency of japan Author, first revenue neutral global warming Over the next two years it coordinated a team of 60 into a Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative (GSEII) helping several island nations to transform their energy systems to be prevention act John Noel III experts from a dozen nations in carrying out studies of climate Independent energy consultant PRESIDENT, JOHN NOEL INVESTMENT COMPANY vulnerability and response options in eight Asian nations - less carbon-based and less expensive. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, In January 2006, at the Mauritius meeting of island state Dr. H. Nuzhet Dalfes * Daniel Power Sri Lanka and Viet Nam. This study caused President Fidel leaders, the Institute announced the broadening of this PROFESSOR OF CLIMATE AND MARINE SCIENCES, ISTANBUL PRESIDENT, OCEANA ENERGY Asia Pacific TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Ramos of the Philippines in 1995 to convene an initiative to encompass work on coastal protection, adaptation, Hon. Tom Roper Leaders Summit on Climate Change, of which, the Institute and emergency preparedness. This Endangered Islands Dr. Devra Davis PROJECT LEADER, GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ISLANDS was a co-organizer. Later that same year the Institute published Campaign will seek to enhance the capacity of island states to DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ONCOLOGY, INITIATIVE Environmental Exodus, the most comprehensive study to transform their energy systems and become more resilient to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER date of the emerging environmental refugee challenge. withstand the adverse impacts of climate change. This will also Dr. Hind Sadek * At the request of the Asian Parliamentarians’ group, the match island states with experienced institutions in North and Lynne Todd Edgerton PRESIDENT, ECOPAST ATTORNEY AND AUTHOR Climate Institute developed a concept paper proposing an South America as well as encourage religious and civic groups, Dr. Stephen H. Schneider colleges and universities in the US, Canada, Australia and the international public-private partnership to promote “greenhouse Jason Elliott PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY UK to provide carbon offsets and technical assistance to island benign energy.” Drawing on the example of the computer and MANAGING DIRECTOR, RANGER CAPITAL FUND telecommunications revolutions, the Institute proposed an nations and other developing countries pioneering climate Dr. Pier Vellinga* emphasis on scaling up markets for clean energy with special protection measures. Christopher Flavin DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, PRESIDENT, WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE FREE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM focus on the needs of two billion people lacking access to Over the past ten years the Climate Institute has worked electricity. with EPA and DOE to build and expand their state and local Dr. Thomas Gale James Lee Witt In April 2000, the Institute was instrumental in the government partnerships and provided technical assistance PROPRIETOR, EVERSLEY FARM PRESIDENT, JAMES LEE WITT ASSOCIATES convening of a Summit in Seattle that pulled together pioneers to incorporate Energy Star technologies and other energy Luis Manuel Guerra * * Honorary Board Members in the computer, telecommunications and energy fields to see efficiency and renewable energy technologies in new capital PRESIDENT, INSTITUTO AUTONOMO DE IVESTIGACIONES how a global clean energy revolution could adapt the models projects and overall development plans. This effort has ECOLOGICAS of these other high tech revolutions. The Seattle Summit also resulted in their adopting policies and programs such addressed ways the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia as emissions reductions and economic development and might lead a clean energy revolution. helped local policy and community leaders realize the most cost-effective and comprehensive ways to address issues In July 2000, the G-8 embraced the notion of an international The Climate Institute’s such as affordable housing, jobs, disaster preparedness, public-private partnership to speed the emergence of Board Members come from 9 renewable energy. It created a Renewable Energy Task Force at revitalization of brownfields, environmental protection, and and the Board of Advisors come the initiative of the British Prime Minister, who championed an energy efficiency. from 24 different countries. idea advanced to him by the Institute’s Chairman, Sir Crispin Informal Climate Institute Board discussion in hotel during April 1992 meeting at Green College, Oxford University.   Protecting the Balance Between Climate and Life on Earth Climate Institute Twentieth Anniversary

Board of Advisors Dr. Sharad Adhikary Dr. Antonio Rocha Magalhaes Kathmandu, Nepal Brasilia, Brazil Director, Himalayan Climate Centre Principal Country Officer for Brazil, World Bank H.E. Heherson Alvarez Dr. James McCulloch Donors Manila, The Philippines Ontario, Canada Former Chair, Senate Environment Committee Former Secretary of the Retired Director General, Canadian Climate Centre Environment Dr. Nobuo Mimura Adirondack Park Agency PG&E Corporation Professor David Attard Hitachi, Japan American Gas Foundation Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership Valetta, Malta Professor, Center for Water Environment Studies, Ibaraki University American Honda Motor Company Rockefeller Brothers Fund Roger Ballentine Dr. Norman Myers washington, dc, usa Oxford, United Kingdom Arab Center For Study of Arid and Dry Lands Shell Foundation president, green strategies Visiting Fellow, Oxford University Asian Development Bank Swedish International Development Cooperation Dr. Michael C. Barth Diana Ponce Nava Australian International Development Assistance Agency Virginia, USA Mexico City, Mexico Distinguished Consultant, ICF Consulting Former Director of Air Quality, Mexico City Bureau, (now AUSAID) The Bullitt Foundation Dr. Andre Berger Professor Richard Odingo Battelle Pacific NW Division The Moriah Fund G. Lemaitre Lovain-LaNeuve, Belgium Nairobi, Kenya BP The Rockefeller Foundation Director, Inst. d’Astronomie et Geophys Department of Geography, University of Nairobi CH2M Hill The Thomas H. And Barbara W. Gale Foundation Hans Bjerregaard Dr. R. K. Pachauri Communities Foundation Of Texas Toyota Motor Company Copenhagen, Denmark New Delhi, India Hans Bjerregaard Consulting Director, the energy and resource Institute CS Mott Fund Turner Foundation, Inc. Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr. Roger Blakeley Environment Canada US Agency For International Development Porirua, New Zealand Dr. Graeme Pearman Evergreen Foundation US Department Of Energy Chief Executive, Porirua Former Secretary for the Environment of New Victoria, Australia Zealand Senior Research fellow, monash university Ford Motor Company Fund US Environmental Protection Agency Michael F. Brewer, Esq. Courtland Perkins GE Foundation UK Department For International Development Washington, D.C., USA Chairman Emeritus Geneva Steel United Nations Development Programme President, Brewer Consulting Retired President, US National Academy of Engineering Goldman Sachs United Nations Environment Programme Dr. Jim Bruce Dr. A. Barrie Pittock Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Victoria, Australia Author and Former Director, Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Government of Egypt United Nations Foundation Senior Associate, Global Change Strategies Information Company Dr. Ata Qureshi Government of Italy United Nations Population Fund Lt. Col. Christine Debrah (Rtd.) arlington, virginia, USA Japan Environment Agency US Army Corps of Engineers Accra, Ghana forestry and environmental consultant Former Executive Director, Environmental Protection Agency Michaels Stores, Inc. US Department of State Mr. Mohammad Rafiq Sen. Mohamed el- Kassas switzerland Moriah Fund US Department of Transportation, Maritime Cairo, Egypt head - business & biodiversity programme, iucn National Aeronanautics and Space Administration Administration Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, Cairo University Dr. Arcot Ramachandran National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration William Bingham Foundation Prof. Daniel Esty Chennai, India New Haven, Connecticut Chair, The Energy and resource Institute National Parks and Conservation Association World Bank Yale University Annie Roncerel National Science Foundation World Resources Institute Dr. Tibor Farago’ Geneva, Switzerland Netherlands Climate Programme Budapest, Hungry Senior Programme Coordinator, Climate Change Programme, UNITAR Ministry of the Environment Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig Christiana Figueres New York, USA Washington Grove, Maryland Independent Consultant Senior Scientist, GISS Winner 2001 Hero of the Planet Award of National Geographic Partners Dr. Maciej Sadowski Dr. David Fisk Warsaw, Poland Alliance Of Small Island States London, United Kingdom Director, Climate Change Country Studies Program, Institute of Professor, Imperial College Environment Protection United Nations Industrial Development Organization Dr. Georgi Golitsyn Dr. Eneas Salati Moscow, Russia Brazil Counterpart International Academician, Institute for Atmospheric Physics President, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus-AM Organization Of American States Dr. Gordon T. Goodman Mme. Miet Smet Stockholm, Sweden Brussels, Belgium Energy And Security Group Chairman Emeritus, Stockholm Environment Institute Minister of State and Member, the Flemish Parliament Former Minister of Environment of Belgium Professor Orman Granger International Network For Sustainable Energy Berkeley, U.S.A. Professor Suresh K. Sinha Department of Geography, University of California New Delhi, India Environmental And Energy Study Institute Senior Scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Mr. Nelson Hay International Hurricane Research Center Washington, D.C., USA The Rt. Hon. Sir Ninian Stephen Retired President, International Gas Center Victoria, Australia Climate Care, UK Former Special Ambassador for the Environment Renee Karottki Capetown, South Africa Ir. Aca Sugandhy Ms Swaminathan Research Foundation, India ENFORSE Jakarta, Indonesia Former Deputy Minister of Population & Environment Sistema Informacion Ambiental, Mexico Professor Gunnar Kullenberg Tal Qroga, Malta Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Pacific Power Association, Fiji Senior Executive Director, International Oceans Institute Chennai, India Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Willie L. Leftwich, Esq. Washington, D.C., United States Dwight Wilson Attorney, Investor and Pottery Maker san francisco, ca, USA president, one roof Mr. Amory Lovins Colorado, USA Professor Ye Ruqiu Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute Beijing, China Coordinator Chinese Climate Impact Assessment, 1990   Protecting the Balance Between Climate and Life on Earth Climate Institute Twentieth Anniversary

The Climate Institute has worked with over 40 different countries.

CANADA UNITED KINGDOM The Hague, NETHERLANDS Ottawa Oxford Riga, LATIVA London Toronto Warsaw, POLAND Bonn, GERMANY Budapest, HUNGARY Seattle Bucharest, ROMANIA Beijing, CHINA New York Sofia, BULGARIA UNITED STATES Nagoya, JAPAN Washington, DC Seoul, SOUTH KOREA Damascus, SYRIA Islamabad, Mexico City, MEXICO Miami Rabat, Tunis, TUNISIA Kathmandu, NEPAL PAKISTAN MOROCCO INDIA Cairo, EGYPT Bangkok, THAILAND DOMINICA Dhaka, BANGLADESH ST. KITTS & NEVIS Hanoi ST. LUCIA VIETNAM C l i m a t e Tegucigalpa, GRENADA I n s t i t u t e HONDURAS SRI LANKA Ho Chi Minh City Manila, PHILIPPINES MALDIVES Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA MARSHALL ISLANDS A c t i v i t i e s Fortaleza, BRAZIL SAMOA Jakarta, INDONESIA 1 9 8 6 - 2 0 0 6 NEW CALEDONIA Brasilia, BRAZIL FIJI

MAURITIUS Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA ARGENTINA KEY Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Climate Institute Conference North American Projects Presidential/Ministerial Briefing • Chesapeake Bay (Washington College, Chesterfield Maryland), October 1996; Country Study • New Jersey Shore (Toms River, New Jersey), September 1997; Sustainable Energy Program • New England (Yale University), April 1998; Special UN Event • Delaware/Hudson Region (Ramapo College, New Jersey), April 1998; Workshop/Training Session 154 nations signed the UN Framework • Mississippi River Valley (St. Louis), June 1998; Convention on Climate Change in 1992; • South Atlantic/Caribbean Region (Florida International University), December 1998; since then, that number has risen to 189. • Pacific Northwest/British Columbia (Seattle), April 2000.

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