From	Mike Hulme	Date	Thu Jun 26 15:04:29 2003
To	a.minns
Subject	Re: From Prof. Pachauri
Asher, Spoke with Sinclair-Wilson from Earthscan yesterday about this and we agreed one or two things. We should take next steps on this after the Assembly business has died down. Mike At 07:51 19/06/2003 +0100, you wrote: Mike, this message below id fresh-in from RK Pachauri. He seems keen, and we have been given a direct contact at TERI. He has made a few interesting suggestions on content, though nothing on funding as of yet. Asher ------------------------------ Mr Asher Minns Communication Manager Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research [1]www.tyndall.ac.uk Mob: 07880 547 843 Tel: +44 0 1603 593906 ----- Original Message ----- From: "R K Pachauri" To: Cc: "Ulka Kelkar" Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 7:34 AM Subject: Dear Prof. Hulme Dear Prof. Hulme, Thank you for your letter proposing that the Tyndall Centre and TERI jointly produce a series of yearbooks on climate change. May I congratulate you on this excellent idea! I am convinced that a market exists for precisely such a publication, and am delighted that you thought of TERI as a partner in this venture. I am putting down some initial thoughts on the proposed publication and the suggested contents that you had sent. While there is a lot of information and related data available on climate change, it is scattered. On the one hand we have the IPCC assessment on the state of knowledge about climate change, and on the other the WMO's annual bulletins. Similarly, the UNFCCC compiles GHG inventory information from periodically submitted National Communications, while the IEA presents annual fuel combustion emission statistics. In such a scenario, the metier of our Yearbook would be to synthesise the current knowledge on climate change. As mentioned in your note, it would present this information in a clear and visually appealing manner. Moreover, it would go into climate change issues in more detail than say, the annual World Resources brought out by WRI. The Foreword - and perhaps an Emerging Issues section at the end of the book - could comment on scientific and political issues, which are otherwise not discussed in either the IPCC Reports or in the types of publications mentioned above. In the draft table of contents, there are two sections that are slightly different in character from the others. In the chapter on national policies, we may choose between alternative structures: 1 By Annex I country 2 By type of policy/instrument (e.g. CDM, international trading regimes, taxation, etc) The proposed chapter on Social Change and Adaptation is important to complete the set of topics/issues covered in the Yearbook, but is probably the most complex in terms of scope/structure. One option that we could discuss is to cover adaptation policies not in chapter 7, but in chapter 9, and to highlight studies of community and local government level implementation. With such a scope, the media would also be an important part of the audience for this yearbook I do appreciate that producing this Yearbook would involve significant commitment in terms of time and effort if all relevant literature is to be reviewed. However, by teaming up authors from our two organisations, I am confident that we will provide an impartial yet balanced North-South perspective to the Yearbook. For specialised subjects, like the chapter on business, we may even think of invited chapters, by say the WBCSD. You may also be interested to know that TERI also brings out a yearbook focusing on India, called the TERI Energy Directory, Database, and Yearbook (TEDDY). This publication has a readership of 15000-20000, reaching out to government, corporates, individual researchers, and libraries in India and overseas. These are just some initial thoughts, and my colleagues can be in touch with your team to develop this outline further. Ms Ulka Kelkar (ulkak@teri.res.in) will coordinate this effort on behalf of TERI. We look forward to working with you on this Yearbook. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, R.K. Pachauri References 1. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/