Global Issues Project
Rapidly growing demand, resulting from increasing global population, rising per-capita consumption, and the spread of harmful or inappropriate technologies, is causing an upward trend in the use of resources and the stresses on environmental sinks. At the same time, supplies of resources are being provided at increasing energy cost, and pollution is increasing, most notably the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Climate change makes each factor of concern more worrisome. The Global Issues Project is designed to probe interrelationships among vital factors, and to devise and promote strategies that might help humankind manage its way through anticipated crises.
The Global Issues Project has a range of papers available for download as PDF.
- GIP Brochure (Outside PDF file)
- GIP Brochure (Inside PDF file)
- GIP Prospectus (PDF)
- Roundtable on Forests
- Roundtable on Climate Change & Energy
- Wasan Action Framework (PDF)
- Roundtable on Freshwater
- Overview of Roundtable (PDF)
- Water and Peace in a Rapidly converging World (PDF)
- Freshwater Declaration (English PDF)
- Freshwater Declaration (French PDF)
- Physical Limits to Large-Scale Biomass for Replacing Fossil Fuels (PDF)
Further documentation (conference background papers, etc) can be found on the Canadian Pugwash Group website.