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Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment
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Vol. 2, No. 26, October 8, 1998
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NEW ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM IN
EASTERN EUROPE
A new partnership has been launched in Central and Eastern Europe
to revolutionize the energy business by promoting the concept of
energy efficiency. In March 1998, the US Agency for International
Development (US AID), the Alliance to Save Energy and the Regional
Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) launched
a three-year energy efficiency project in five countries in the region
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. For more information
about the project's partners, please visit their web sites at
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HARVARD WORKSHOP ON MARKET BASED INSTRUMENTS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts will host to a
"Workshop on Market-Based Instruments for Environmental
Protection", July 18 to 20, 1999. The workshop is being co-
sponsored by the Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (AERE), the John F. Kennedy School of Government,
and the Harvard University Committee on Environment.
Contact, Robert N. Stavins at
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WORLD BANK REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL TAX OPTIONS
Researchers from the World Bank, Gunnar Eskeland and Shantayanan
Devarajan, just finished a book entitled, "Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods,
Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges". The book explores
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EXPLORING GREEN TAX OPTIONS FOR THE
STATES IN THE U.S.
On December 10 and 11, 1998, in Seattle, Washington, the Energy
Outreach Center (EOC) and the Washington D.C. based Center for
a Sustainable Economy (CSE) will team up to host "Greening State
Taxes," the first national conference of state leaders interested using
the tax code to promote a sustainable economy. This event will be a
unique ................,,................,, Contact, ..............address,
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ATTEND WORLD BANK WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENT
PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR COLLABORATION
The World Bank is hosting a conference/workshop on public-
private sector collaboration for cost-effective pollution management,
October 26th, 1998. For more information contact,,,,,,,,,,.................
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BURMA LOSING ITS TREES TO ILLEGAL LOGGING
Burma holds more than half of mainland Southeast Asia's closed forest,
and is often called "the last frontier of biodiversity in Asia." Having
clear cut of burned virtually all of their original forest cover, Burma's
neighbors -- China, India, and Thailand -- rely increasingly on Burma
as a source of timber. For more information contact,
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OPPOSE H.R. 4570, CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN NOW
The Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and other environmental groups in
the U.S. are urging the public to call their members of the House of
Representatives immediately to oppose H.R. 4570, the Omnibus National
Parks and Public Lands Act. H.R. Contact,
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY FINDS 40% OF DEATHS CAUSED
BY POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Forty percent of deaths worldwide are caused by pollution and other
environmental factors, and climate change will make matters worse,
Cornell University scientists found in a study released September
1998. For the full report contact
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RAMPANT POLLUTION HARMS PEOPLE IN RUSSIA
As Russia backs away from cleaning up its very polluted environment,
its people and its productive workforce continue to suffer. The latest
report is that authorities in former Soviet Georgia has banned residents
from drinking tap water in the Black Sea resort of Kobuleti after
hundreds of people fell ill with suspected salmonella poisoning.
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INDIA CREATES SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS (INSEE)
The Indian Society for Ecological Economics was launched at a meeting held
in Delhi on September 24, 1998. Contact
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INCINERATOR ASH DISPOSAL HARMING JAPAN FISHERIES
Municipal and hazardous waste is being dumped on a deserted island
in the Seto Inland Sea, near Hiroshima in Japan. The run off is killing
the shellfish and is having adverse effects on the commercial fisheries
in the area. Contact .................address........................email
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FIVE DUTCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE JOIN TO DEVELOP
TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
MATTER is a joint project of 5 Dutch institutes, coordinated by
ECN, in the framework of the National Research Programme on
Global Air Pollution and Climate Change (NOP-MLK).................
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HURRICANES PART OF CLIMATE CHANGE — UNEP
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is taking it
seriously. There are strong scientific evidence that the new extreme
weather events associated with “La Nina” which is causing destructive
hurricanes like “Georges” which killed over 300 people and did more
than US$5 billion in damages, are being caused by global warming.
Contact, ...............,,......................,,........................
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SWITCH TO GREEN TAXES AND CUT OVERALL TAX LOAD
What to reduce taxes? Then switch to a green tax approach.
It will solve many of the current resource management problems,
clean up the environment and help economies actually achieve
sustainability. This is according to the new study released by the
New York based Worldwatch Institute in September 1998, entitled
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THE RIGHT MOBILIZES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT
ON CLIMATE CHANGE
In the United States and Canada, strong organizations have been funded
to fight environmental protection efforts. The latest effort was an massive
email call to arms by the conservative think tank, the “American Policy
Centre. It used an email program called “Sledgehammer” to send out the
alarm to hundreds of thousands of calling them to action. The American
Policy Centre warned that, “Radical Greens Are Using Churches to Force
Senate Support of the UN’s Global Warming Treaty”. The following is a
selection of the exact wording of the action alert — , *******
“URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT!
The National Council of Churches (NCC) is urging churches nation-
wide to enlist congregations in a massive letter-writing campaign in
support of the UN's global warming treaty. NCC has a long history of
radical leftist activity. This effort by the NCC, along with the U.S.
Catholic Conference and the National Association of Evangelicals,
is part of a nation-wide drive by radical greens to influence
American churches with green propaganda. If you need more
information, a packet about the "Green Invasion of Christian Churches"
is available from the American Policy Center at website
http://www.americanpolicy.org
DO NOT LET ANTI-CHRISTIAN PAGANS STEAL YOUR
CHURCH FROM YOU!”
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NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT ENERGY EFFICIENCY CAN
REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS WHILE SAVING MONEY
A new study by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy (ACEEE) titled Approaching the Kyoto Targets Five
Key Strategies for the United States, shows how the United
States can achieve over 60 percent of the carbon emissions reduction
necessary for meeting the Kyoto Protocol target through actions in the
United States that will save consumers and businesses money. The five
strategies stimulate widespread energy efficiency improvements in all
sectors of the American economy. They are,
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