Day 240 - 24 Apr 96 - Page 11
1 A. Yes. The International Institute for Environment and
2 Development is a primarily research and policy based
3 organisation that looks into sustainable development
4 issues, particularly in the so-called southern countries,
5 and does most of its work for Government agencies of one
6 sort or another in this country and abroad.
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8 I was Director of their Climate Change Programme and I was
9 principally working on a project looking into the
10 relationship between tropical forest management and global
11 warning issues. That project was carried out for the
12 Swedish International Development Agency and involved
13 writing a book length report on the steps that authorities
14 responsible for managing tropical forests could take in the
15 present day to mitigate against likely adverse impacts as a
16 result of climate change and sea level rise on various
17 tropical forest types and that we particularly looked at
18 Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and Vietnam as case
19 country studies and we worked very closely with the
20 Governments of those countries and the responsible
21 Government department and Government agencies that were
22 involved in tropical forest management of one sort or
23 another in those countries.
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25 Q. Yes. Did you actually spend time in Costa Rica?
26 A. Yes, I did.
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28 Q. Which years were they?
29 A. I made three trips to Costa Rica over the period that
30 I was working for the International Institute for
31 Environment and Development, primarily in 1991 and 1992.
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33 Q. Have you written any books on this subject?
34 A. I have written a book that I have already referred to,
35 which is currently being prepared for publication, and
36 I also wrote a book in 1985 called "Rainforest: Protecting
37 the Planet's Richest Resource", which was used to help
38 launch the Friends of the Earth International Tropical
39 Rainforest Campaign which I was responsible for preparing
40 and running.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Will the one being prepared for publication
43 be published with you as the author, or as edited by you,
44 or as a combined effort? How will it be presented?
45 A. I am the principal author. I had a colleague working
46 with me throughout the work that I did for the
47 International Institute for Environment and Development, a
48 climatologist based at the University of East Anglia at
49 their Climatic Research Unit, Dr. Mick Kelly, and the
50 Climatic Research Unit was a partner organisation in the
51 work that I was involved with for IID. There are some
52 small sections of the book that Mick Kelly has primarily
53 been responsible for and so he will be associated as a
54 contributing author, but the overwhelming majority of the
55 book has been written by me.
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57 There is also one or two sections that we are still
58 considering whether to include in the final published
59 version that was prepared by other collaborators on the
60 project based at the University of Virginia in the United
