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INES Congress 2000

''Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century''

Stockholm, 14-18 June 2000

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CONTENTS of WNII No. 23/1999

• INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
• Correction WNII Special on INES Council+Seminar Sep 99
• MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 25, June 1999
• "SEU TIMES" 4-99
• NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Resources from "The Sunflower" No. 25/June 1999
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• 7th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
• Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, The Newswatch Archive
• Meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE
• CHANGE: e-mail Dr. Marc Ollivier
• CHANGE: INESDEV homepage

NOTE: All INES e-mail addresses and homepages are available upon request from:  < >

INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

Please inform us about changes of your email address or your homepage!

Correction WNII Special on INES Council+Seminar Sep 99

The subject of the speech of Dr. Martin Kalinowski (Germany) was wrongly transmitted from the Dortmund INES Office. It should read: "Nuclear Science and Peace"

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECTS' GROUP NEWS

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 25, June 1999 http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html

The latest edition of The Sunflower covers the following:

• Thousands Attend Hague Appeal for Peace
• Kosovo:
• More Voices Call for Bombing Halt
• Conflict in Yugoslavia Endangering Nuclear Arms Reductions
• Milosevic Indicted as War Criminal
• Proliferation:
• House Report Alleges Extensive Chinese Nuclear Espionage
• U.S. Overreaction to Chinese Spying Seen
• U.S. Moves Closer to Missile Defense System
• Pakistan Takes Hard Line on Nuclear Deterrence
• NPT PrepComm III Ends With Little Progress

"SEU TIMES" 4-99

"SEU TIMES" is the electronic newsletter of the "Socio-Ecological Union", one of the Russian INES member organisations. Its third issue (April/May 99) has the following contents:

• Editorial: "Call to Action" by Sviatoslav Zabelin, SEU Council Co-Chair
• SEU-Special: Caviar Not Oil
• The Earth Day
• The March for Parks, International
• The Earth Day Every Day
• Chemical Safety:
• Chemical Safety Day
• Bryansk Fighting Chemical Weapons Attack
• Human and Environmental Rights:
• Grigory Pasko - An Unhappy Birthday (more information: http://www.polit.ru/index-dossier  )
• Ukrainian Selfgovernment In Action
• Right to Environmental Information Defended in Court
• SEU-Press:
• The Green Media Festival
• SEU CCI Press Service - Something To Celebrate

To get on the SEU Times list, contact: Sviatoslav Zabelin, the SEU Council Co-Chair:

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.abolition2000.org

For the latest nuclear weapons abolition grassroots news, visit: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/

Resources from "The Sunflower" No. 25/June 1999

• The Middle Powers Initiative (MPI): "Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons"   downloadable in PDF form from their new website: http://www.middlepowers.org
• "Security and Survival, The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention"  Available from IPPNW,    US$10 plus postage and handling ($2 in the US/Canada/Mexico; $6 elsewhere.)
• "Russia's Nuclear Crisis" is the latest video from America's Defense Monitor.  Details: http://www.cdi.org/adm/1228
• "Aotearoa/New Zealand at the World Court" by Kate Dewes and Robert Green is an excellent account of Aotearoa/New Zealand's anti-nuclear history and use of the World Court. Available from Disarmament and Security Center,  
• http://www.peacewire.org/campaigns/index.html     Features excellent audio links to speeches by General Lee Butler and other key documents in the campaign to abolition nuclear weapons.
• Protecting Human Rights Defenders, Analysis of the newly adopted Declaration on Human Rights Defenders; Available through the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights:  http://www.lchr.org/media/chr/defdecanalysis.htm
• http://hiroshima.tomato.nu/English/index_e.html    Website designed to convey the spirit of Hiroshima and advocate nuclear weapons abolition and world peace. It features survivors' stories, a Peace Park Tour, letters from the world, and more. The site was prepared by Hiroshima survivor Miyoko Matsubara.
• Global Action to Prevent War, a coalition-building effort to stop war, genocide, and other forms of deadly conflict:   http://www.globalactionpw.org/

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

7th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development

The final decisions of the 7th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 7), 19-30 April 1999, are now available online at the Steering Committee's web-site. To view this document please visit the site at: http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo

If you have any comments or queries, or have difficulty viewing this document please contact either Felix Dodds or Toby Middleton via

Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, The Newswatch Archive

Search past months' news reports from all over the World Wide Web for stories about weather and climate events, developments in climate science, and the climate convention negotiations at - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/newswatch/archive/index.htm

Every hour the Cyberlibrary automatically scans news sites world-wide for stories about climate issues. Current stories are available at - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/newswatch/index.htm

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United Kingdom
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Web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/

Meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Meetings of the subsidiary bodies to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-10 and SBSTA-10), Bonn, 31 May to 11 June 1999

During SBI-10 and SBSTA-10, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is publishing ten daily issues of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, beginning on the morning of 31 May. These 2000 word summaries, in English and French, will be posted to our WWW site and sent to subscribers of our e-mail lists within six hours of the end of meetings each day. To subscribe to automatic e-mail delivery in either language (French or English) or format (ASCII or PDF) go to our Web-based e-mail subscription manager at http://iisd.ca/enb/email.asp

P.S. For those following the meeting "virtually" through our coverage, here are some valuable links:
SBI-10 Official Documents: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/sbi99.html
SBSTA-10 Official Documents: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/sbsta99.html

UNFCCC Secretariat Page for these meetings:   http://www.unfccc.de/fccc/mj99/file20.htm (Can't locate - 9 June 99)

ENB Coverage of the UNFCCC Technical Workshop on Mechanisms Under the Kyoto Protocol: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/techwork/

ECO, the Climate Action Network Newsletter:   http://www.igc.org/climate/Eco.html

INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE

CHANGE: e-mail Dr. Marc Ollivier

Note that the email address of Dr. Marc Ollivier, member of the INES Executive Committee, has changed as follows:

CHANGE: INESDEV homepage

The International Study Project "Science, Engineering and Development" (INESDEV) has a new Internet homepage address: http://www.ismea.org

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