Nifty trend in the last weekly expiry has been trading sideways with a positive bias. We saw buying coming in at 11500 and selling at 11550 levels. Overall, it ended the week with a positive gain of 1.5%.
As we move ahead into the last weekly expiry of March 2019, 11500 will remain to be a strong support level. Unless it is broken decisively, we can expect Nifty to continue its uptrend.
So, what would be the probability of a positive Nifty trend in the last Weekly Expiry as of28 March 2019? Let us look at the future Nifty levels using current data available and technical indicators.
If I look at the Open Interest data, I can derive information that maximum Put writing has happened at 11000 followed by 11500. Maximum Put writing is seen at 10600 and 10700 Strike price.
What is Open Interest suggesting?
This is suggesting that 11500 may not be broken and we may see strong buy coming back if Nifty dips below these levels. On the upper side, 11600 will act as strong resistance and we may see profit booking at these levels.
If Nifty manages to hold on to 11600 levels and push above with strong buy, we may see Short covering and Options writing moving to higher strike price which may take Nifty above 10650 levels.
Fib levels/ Pivot points suggest that NIFTY will see major resistance at 11610 levels. If NIFTY sustains above 11610 I will trade on the long side with a target of 11751 and above within this March Expiry.
If NIFTY does not sustain and give a breakout from the above resistance levels, we may see NIFTY heading lower towards its support levels at 11410 and 11364.
I would also be monitoring the Candlestick formation in a 30-minute timeframe for entry and exit confirmation along with 10 Day moving average Indicator.
We continue to see strong buying trend from FII over the last 10-15 trading sessions. As long as FII keeps infusing Capital into the markets, the probability of Market falling is low.
On the other hand, we did see a lot of selling by DII's to counter the buying effect. This trend is likely to reverse in a few days time and DII could also become Net buyers.
This market is indicating higher probability of continuation of the uptrend movement. Any dips in the 11450-11480 can be used as an opportunity to enter with a target of 10610 and 10750+ levels.
If you are trading in NIFTY Index, keep an optimum Stop loss at 11400 levels and use proper position size as per your risk appetite. If you are trading with Options, 11550 – 11600CE MARCH can be accumulated at every dip to ride the trend.
If you like this post, do share it with fellow traders and please share your probable NIFTY targets for this expiry in the Comment section below!


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Pope Francis, in Washington, Addresses Poverty and Climate
By Peter Baker and Michael Shear | September 2015 | From The New York Times
(Sep. 23) – Welcomed with a fanfare of trumpets and a chorus of amens, Pope Francis introduced himself to the United States on Wednesday with a bracing message on climate change, immigration and poverty that ranged from the pastoral to the political.
Changing the discussion on poverty
By Jennifer Rubin | September 2015 | From The Washington Post
(Sep. 17) – Ask many conservatives about fighting poverty and they will tell you we need to cut the safety net and boost growth. Ask many liberals about fighting poverty and they will tell you we have not spent enough and the tax code should be used to shift wealth to the needy. Both miss the boat.
America's Poverty Problem Hasn't Changed
By Gillian White | September 2015 | From The Atlantic
(Sep. 16) – On Wednesday, the Census Bureau released its latest data on income and poverty for the country, and despite a falling unemployment rate and a rising GDP—two promising macroeconomic signs—things haven't improved all that much for American families in the past year.
Census: Income, poverty numbers stay just about the same from previous year
By Jesse J. Holland | September 2015 | From The Associated Press
(Sep. 16) – The wallets of America's middle class and poorest aren't seeing any extra money, the U.S. Census reported Wednesday, a financial stagnation experts say may be fueling political dissent this campaign season.
Who's in Poverty? The Census Bureau's Getting Better at Telling Us
By Paul Overberg | September 2015 | From Wall Street Journal
(Sep. 15) – When the Census Bureau releases its 2014 report on household income tomorrow, it will include two different definitions of poverty for the first time. The official definition has changed little since its adoption 50 years ago, when its threshold was set as cash income equal to three times what a frugal family spent on food. A relatively new unofficial rate is based on a much wider definition of income, including the earned-income tax credit and noncash subsidies for housing, school lunch and home heating. It also adjusts income for taxes, child care, health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs. The unofficial rate also reflects regional costs of living with different thresholds for renters and people with mortgages.
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Congrats Bobby, how long was incubation at what temps?
Mine are producing great just they keep laying like directly in the water (underneath the potted plant I have in the cage) so it is always to late, though I have one clutch incubationg that I think is viable.
They are tiny especially when compared to the adults.They hatched out at right around 70 days with a fluctuating temp between 80-84 with a slight night time drop.
I can't wait to keep this species myself. Congratulations with these juveniles!
fluctuating temp between 80-84 with a slight night time drop.
Dang, I thought incubation temps were like Rhacs, like in the 70's, I have my eggs cooking at 70-72, did you just incubate higher in hopes of males?


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Time to swipe the black card
by Cimino | 28 Apr 2010 | Carbon tax | 0 comments
It is a $2 million-demonstration of the power of packaging.
Gold Card: Cap-and-trade is doing damage to the planet—it is time to make a stylish switch, to a direct carbon tax. Images New Zealand Government, Mahurangi Magazine
Fully 11% of the SuperGold Card travel budget has been used on trips to Waiheke Island, apparently helping put the scheme $12 million over budget.
Although any discount and concession scheme would have been welcomed by superannuitants, veterans and widows, an undoubted part of the SuperGold Card's immense popularity is due to the connotations of its name and its upmarket styling.
It is the perfect way to package for Aotearoa a scheme that, in North America, is an increasingly popular—already favoured by 74%—alternative to emission trading schemes.
In a prayer to President Obama, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James Hansen gets to the crux of the issue:
An essential corollary to the rising carbon price is 100% redistribution of collected fees to the public—otherwise the public will never allow the fee to be high enough to affect lifestyles and energy choices.
New Zealanders, notoriously early adopters, would waste no time in wielding a '100% Carbon' card, worth perhaps $3000 annually, given to every adult resident. The card, of course, would be styled in silver and black—silver as in inducement, and the ubiquitous black for carbon and nationalism.
Forty-Pager: Senator Maria Cantwell's cap-and-mostly-payback act is 40 pages. Meanwhile, at more than 1400 pages, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation is moribund. Cartoon by KAL, The Economist
Piggybacking on 100% Pure New Zealand works in two important ways:
The scheme is pure in that 100% of the tax is returned directly, and equally, to taxpayers
By acting decisively to reduce fossil fuel use, Aotearoa can begin to market the '100% Pure' aspiration with integrity.
To further quote James Hansen:
The rising carbon price will affect almost everything. People's purchases will reflect a desire to minimize their costs. Food from nearby farms will benefit; imports from halfway around the world will decline. Renewable energies, other carbon-free energies, and energy efficiency will grow; fossil fuels will decline.
Hansen estimates that, what he calls, fee-and-dividend would leave 60% of people better off—those with the smaller carbon footprint.
The 100% Carbon card could function both as a debit card and a loyalty card. Suppliers of certified sustainable goods and services could offer loyalty points that would top up the funds from the shared carbon tax.
The beauty of 100% Carbon also being a low-carbon loyalty card is that it will potentially become more valuable over time, rather than diminish in value as the use of fossil fuels is driven down, and thus its funding base eroded.
A 'black card' would be flashed with enthusiasm and pride.
Just like that gold card.
See also David Miliband's dumped carbon trading card.


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The Rienstra group has pioneered solid-state NMR methods and technologies that matured the discipline to solve high-resolution structures of small proteins. We have also contributed innovative approaches to enable larger structures of assemblies, fibrils and membrane proteins to be addressed and have extended these technologies to increasingly significant biomedical problems. These results are having a major impact on understanding Parkinson's disease, fungicidal drug action and protein-lipid interactions in blood coagulation.
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(1) Neurodegeneration and amyloid diseases. We have leveraged our capability to determine fibril structures by solid-state NMR in collaboration with Paul Kotzbauer and James Fitzpatrick (Washington U. St. Louis), experts in synucleinopathies and cryo-EM respectively, which aims to determine the structures of patient-derived fibrils with unique disease phenotypes by a combination of solid-state NMR and cryo-EM, and to structurally fingerprint a larger set of patient tissues utilizing a combination of cryo-ET and high-throughput NMR chemical shift analysis. We have developed methods specifically for evaluating the accuracy and similarity of structural models using minimal NMR data sets, such as 13C chemical shifts, enabling us to leverage structural models and to compare structures of various tissue samples utilizing minimal data sets and sample quantities. This project benefits from and motivates methodological projects to enhance NMR sensitivity and to accelerate data analysis (vide infra) and also includes collaborations with Virginia Lee (Penn Medical Center) and Marina Ramirez-Alvarado (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN).
(2) Small molecule drug assemblies and membrane interactions. Amphotericin B (AmB) serves as the prototype of a small molecule that acts by binding to another small molecule. Both in terms of fundamental biophysical chemistry and structural biology, and for its impact on broader potential applications in drug discovery and development, the specificity of binding of AmB with sterols and the cooperativity with aggregate assembly are fascinating topics. For half a century, pharmaceutical companies pursued the alternative and less efficacious mode of action (ion channel formation), and analogs of AmB that had a greater propensity to form ion channels failed to achieve greater in vivo fungicidal activity or reduced toxicity. Our studies with Marty Burke have changed this paradigm and conventional wisdom, and the sterol sponge model of AmB action correctly accounts for both the biophysical and structural observations as well as clinical outcomes. For example, the sponge model correctly predicts that AmB preloaded with cholesterol (i.e., the commercial Ambisome formulation) will result in reduced toxicity to renal epithetial cells. The sponge model also provides actionable intelligence to rationally develop better AmB analogs that retain ergosterol binding (and therefore fungicidal activity) yet reduce cholesterol binding (and therefore toxicity). These results illustrate for the first time a direct link between the structure and function of a macroscopically heterogeneous, high molecular weight, membrane-associated complex of small molecules.
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Maithripala's True Colors
By Malinda Seneviratne –
Malinda Seneviratne
So finally the President has spoken. That's good. He was correct when he said that he had been vilified no end during the past few weeks. He added for good measure 'as no other president before me had been vilified'. That of course is not true. What's true is that he was vilified. He has no one to blame but himself though. He was silent. He was wishy-washy. He kept people guessing and on their toes. He may have done this deliberately, we don't know. But that's not important. He brought it all on himself.
Last week the 'Ravaya' claimed in its lead that 'Maithripala had betrayed his mandate'. That's because it was reported that President Maithripala Sirisena had given the green light for his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest on the United People's Freedom Party (UPFA) ticket. Well, now Sirisena claims that he had nothing to do with it. Indeed, he had opposed this, he claimed. The 'Ravaya' for its part has been silent on other mandate-betrayals such as the scuttling of the 20th Amendment, the effective nullification of the COPE report on the Central Bank Bond Scam courtesy dissolution, the non-mention of the Right to Information Act. The 'Ravaya' didn't blame the President and uttered not a word against the UNP. By these acts of commission and omission, the 'Ravaya' showed its hand. It's Ranil Wickremesinghe's hand, so to speak.
One wonders what the 'Ravaya' would have to say now, after the President's 'statement of purpose' on Tuesday. 'Maithripala had us fooled!' would be a nice headline, under the circumstances, but it would take some humility and courage to come up with something like that.
So what did Sirisena say? He said a lot of things. He said that he is not concerned about who wins as long as those who subscribed to his yahapaalana plan came out on top never mind the fact that there was little or no 'yaha' (good) in the paalanaya (governance) of the last six months. He said that there's no love lost between himself and his predecessor. No surprises there.
He said that even if Rajapaksa won, he won't appoint him as Prime Minister. That's interesting. He was essentially conferring by default (by abdication and by naming Rajapaksa) the leadership of the UPFA to the former president. There's more on this, but we'll come to it later.
There are things he did not say. He didn't say 'I want the UNP to win'. He did say it, but not in so many words. He vilified all those who are now against his friends. So everyone in the UPFA without exception are 'bad' in Sirisena's book. He didn't say 'I will do the honorable thing and resign as leader of the SLFP'. He kept the leadership, vowed not to lead and salaamed the (by now tired and hollow) rhetoric of the 'other party', yes, the UNP.
So when someone salutes him on Facebook it's not about championing good governance but seeing benefit for the party of choice. Consider the following post, for example, 'President Sirisena plays his next gambit – and a master stroke it is! "There are enough seniors to be made prime minister if UPFA wins the election – it won't be Mahinda Rajapakse – I won't turn back on the January 08 revolution." So he led MR to the altar and left him standing there all alone after the marriage vows were read and the rings exchanged. My trust is not misplaced.'
It's just about Mahinda Rajapaksa. And of course the (Maithripala's intended) beneficiary, the UNP. That's the 'trust' here. Fair enough.
On the other hand, there would be those who would say that what Maithripala did essentially was to lift his sarong and show off his underwear and that it was all green, with little black elephants decorating it. That's what the Mahinda camp, the kepuwath-nil types and others who for whatever reason feel the SLFP and not the UNP should give leadership to the people. Such people are as disinterested in 'good governance' as those others singing hosannas to Sirisena from the green camp. Almost ten years of Rajapaksa rule, preceded by 10 from that arch enemy of democracy, Chandrika Kumaratunga (sure, with a few years of cohabitation with dictatorial twin, Ranil Wickremesinghe) should teach us not to take the SLFP's democratic claims seriously.
And yet, the 'true colors' were not the underwear-greens or those about good-governance-love, but downright sneering at the basic tenets of decency and democracy. 'Indecent' is used here because it is uncivilized (to put it mildly) to attempt to flush the party down the tube which refusing to give up the leader-post. 'Undemocratic' because of the assertion that even if Mahinda were to win (we have to read that as 'even if Mahinda commands the support of a Parliamentary majority') Sirisena would not want him, Rajapaksa, to be Prime Minister (not that he has a choice of course, and this shows how little he knows about the Constitution).
The track record of an individual is irrelevant if he or she is deemed most fit to be Prime Minister by the people, through the will of their representatives. What Sirisena is saying, essentially, is 'Screw the will of the people!'
One is reminded of the first words he spoke when announcing that he would take on Mahinda Rajapaksa. He quoted the Dhammapada
Nahi Verena Verani—Sammanti dha Kudacancam
Averenacca Sammanti—esa dhammo Sanantano
"Hatred never ceases through hatred, but through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law."
There are two other verses he may be well advised to (re?)visit:
Akkocchi mam avadhi mam — ajini mam ahāsi me
Ye tam upanayhantī — veram tesam na sammati
"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me" — in those who harbor such thoughts, hatred is not appeased.
Ye tam na upanayhantī — veram tesūpasammati
"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me" — in those who do not harbor such thoughts, hatred is appeased.
Yes, Sirisena has shown his true colors. Some will see 'green'. Some will see 'statesmanship'. Some will see 'grey'. Whatever it is, it is certainly not white! But take your pick.
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Peace Lover / July 19, 2015
Well he may have shown his true colors the same way you show your true colors by being a lapdog to Mahinda in return for the free laptop Malinda boy ;-)
Seelawathi / July 20, 2015
Yes, but none among us may be aware of the true colours of Rjapaakshe. Rajapakshe are simply rascals by all nature.
Give us any example where Mr. Sirisena attacked the guys to the very same manner Rajapakshe instipulated his thugs to assualt visting fact finding mission of UNP last year: I saw by mself, those goons attcking Ajith Perera as if Malukade JOHN or other simon did the job.
But what Mahinda did was – nothing. Even more shameless than to stay silent in that way. Why is that regardless of the party, he could react against the goons to send a message across the nation, that thugs have no future etc.
Ellakollage Appachchi / July 19, 2015
Very unprofessional article and journalist. Stooping to really low levels. Wonder if he was proud of it after finishing it?
sama / July 20, 2015
One would see it this man MS has NOT even walked near to Haward Uni.
How can a man if graduated there could behave this way. THis man is total disaster.
sun / July 20, 2015
can you expect feathers from turtles ? No, likewiese, you cant expect him to deliver professional stuff. MS is now smeared to the very same manner DJ has been. Backlickers of this kind are rare -unfortunately, this come from a so called prize winning man ? Can you guy imagine ? So what talks about Wasidewa to react in that way ? They are old and they are penisless leftists of the country that struggle to catch whatever they are being offered to run their later day life. But these guys, being out of colombo to behave this way is beyond all bearing.
H / July 19, 2015
I've commented on this matter on so many other articles…I wish you sensationalist authors would refer to the constitution and not twist what it says to make your story more interesting…seriously, just Google it…actually, I'll do it for you: http://www.priu.gov.lk/Cons/1978Constitution/Chapter_08_Amd.html
Chapter 8, article 43, paragraph 3 states:
"The President shall appoint as Prime Minster the Member of Parliament who in his opinions is most likely to command the confidence of Parliament."
It doesn't get simpler than that. To dumb it down for you, the president can appoint whoever the heck he wants. He can flip a coin to choose a Prime Minister if that's what he wants. That's a power granted to him by the constitution. End of story. You can contest it in courts and appeal against it all you want but in the end, the courts will let the president appoint the PM.
Rohan / July 19, 2015
Some will see a bull that stands between their supper and themselves. Sad, guys likes Malinda get a medium to sing for his supper.
He calls Ranil and Chandrika as dictatorial twins. I really like to know, use the same scale, where he would place Kurakkan Samagama.
Gonzo / July 19, 2015
Oh Boy! Malinda at his sycophantic best when he has the gall to state that " … the 'true colors' were not the underwear-greens or those about good-governance-love, but downright sneering at the basic tenets of decency and democracy."
Malinda's "true colors" are out there in your face when he talks about ".. the basic tenets of decency and democracy", in this attack, implying that these "basic tenets" were honored by his benefactor during his reign. What a joke!
And then he describes Chandrika as "..that arch enemy of democracy" – another 'joke' when you compare her misdeeds to Mahinda's.
Granted, none of these characters are paragons of virtue, but Mahinda and his near and dear took Malinda's description of "..that arch enemy of democracy" to a new level.
So now Malinda, since your usual wishy-washy views have been transformed into an out and out defense of Rajapakse and his circus clowns, at least you have come out of that closet.
Now you can stop pretending to be a decent journalist, do your thing and hope like hell.
Jabberwocky / July 19, 2015
Here's something interesting with regard to the "true colors" Malinda is on about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6y2rqufZxc
"… never mind the fact that there was little or no 'yaha' (good) in the paalanaya (governance) of the last six months", says Malinda.
To most of us the very fact that the Rajapakses and their coterie of crooks were history for the moment was more than " 'yaha' (good) in the paalanaya (governance) of the last six months". The sense of freedom to express ourselves (I guess you are against this too) without fear and the freedom and to check the websites that were blocked by your stalwarts of 'democracy' were some of the "yaha" that you are mourning about.
You are such a frigging hypocrite in the guise of a journalist, it beggars belief!
Chandra / July 19, 2015
It is only by hindsight one may say that Sirisena had some respect being a stalwart of the SLFP….. a far cry from the stature of Mahinda. Nobody can see 'green','statemanship' or 'grey' or what? in him now. He has become a non-entity. He opted to manage his hatred by deceit and aligning himself with the devil creating an unprecedented national calamity, flouting the constitution and the rule of law and putting the economy in jeopardy. People were badly misled. Can it happen again?
HC / July 19, 2015
Are you writing this on your government issue laptop?
Naga / July 20, 2015
Malinda
If Mahinda was corrupt, this man Sirisena should share the blame for corruption because he continued to serve his master Mahinda at that time. Sirisena is not a man of principles though he parade himself now as a paragon of virtues. He went against the Constitutional provisions to bring back Shirani as Chief Justice having aligned with Mahinda to unseat her. Where were his principles then? Where did his yahapalanaya go then?
Sirisena has no moral right to point an accusing finger at Mahinda now having been an accomplice to Mahinda as a responsible Cabinet Minister in Mahinda's cabinet for many long years.
He talks about yahapalanaya but went on to appoint his own brother to a top governmental position. And Colombo Telegraph recently exposed his brother's misdeeds.
He wanted to become the Prime Minister in Mahinda's cabinet and because Mahinda ignored him this Judas crossed over to Ranil's side and agreed to contest as common candidate. This one time Chinese Communist is now an American stooge in the company of Ranil and Chandrika.
Having contested against the SLFP/UPFA candidate at the Presidential Election he shamelessly begged for the SLFP/UPFA leadership position and Mahinda allowed him to have it. And having got the SLFP/UPFA leadership he continued to work for UNP, the arch enemy of SLFP/UPFA. He had now come out with his true colours as you have rightly explained here.
If Mahinda faction of the SLFP/UPFA wins the election with a thumping majority, this boru yahapalanaya man will become a zero and will have to leave his office in disgrace.
Susil Premajayantha, is that you machan???
Sirisena / July 20, 2015
of shut up Malinda, u and your big fat mouth. Stop wagging it as you like. No one likes your darn article.
Rider / July 20, 2015
The beauty about this forum is that everybody wants others to be critical of Mahinda Rajapaksa, and brutally attack anyone who does not, yet talks about 'democracy', 'freedom of expression, 'tolerate dissent'..Way to go Sri Lanka..
Eh, you might be confusing wanting people to be critical of MR with not twisting the truth to suit MR.


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If you would like to talk about making a larger contribution tailored to your interests (which might include the possibility of a naming opportunity) please email the Project Director at IDP.
The International Dunhuang Project is indebted to all its generous sponsors for their help and support in making IDP a leading international digital resource for scholars of the Silk Road. Grant givers over £100,000 are listed below.
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC) / THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (AHRB) UK
The Arts and Humanities Research Council Website
Funding Period: 2002–2005
Funding Amount: GB £302,851 (IDP portion totalled GB £118,869)
Project Name: Digitisation and Access Enhancement of the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts at the British Library
In 2002 the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) provided funding to the School of Oriental and African (SOAS) for a joint project between IDP and SOAS. The project was directed at cataloguing the neglected Tibetan tantric manuscripts in the Stein collection at the British Library. The grant included funding for two researchers, Sam van Schaik and Jacob Dalton, to create a detailed descriptive catalogue of the material.
The project was completed in 2005, and an online version of the catalogue was launched on the IDP site. In the following year a printed version of the catalogue was published. In addition to the catalogue the researchers also produced a substantial body of new research and scholarly publications on a variety of subjects related to the Tibetan tantric manuscripts. Among this research was the identification of individual Tibetan scribes through palaeography.
BRITISH ACADEMY, UK
The British Academy Website
Funding Amount: GB £111,000
Project Name: Tibetan Zen
In 2010 the British Academy gave a Research Development Award to IDP to fund a three-year project on the Tibetan Zen manuscripts in the Dunhuang collections. The funding is primarly for Sam van Schaik as principal investigator and project manager.
The principle aims of the Tibetan Zen Project are to catalogue and transliterate all of the relevant manuscripts, to provide translations of key texts and to make these available in printed and digital editions. The principle investigator will work closely with experts in Tibetan and Chinese Zen (Chan) and a cross-disiplinary workshop will be held in the project's final year.
DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT (DCMS), UK
The DCMS Website
Funding Amount: £92,000
Project Name: World Collections Programme Internships
Two interns from the Dunhuang Academy, China were selected to spend six months each over 2009–10 at IDP London working on photography and image manipulation as well as becoming more familiar with IDP's workflow and resources. For 2010–11, two more interns will be chosen, one from China and one from India, to work on the Stein 3D objects at the British Museum, with time spent also at IDP in the British Library, and at the V&A.
Project Name: World Collections Programme Web Translation
This grant has been used to translate core pages of the IDP website into Turkish and Arabic to provide access to the collections to users on the western Silk Road. Additional educational content not currently available in Chinese will also be translated.
CHIANG CHING-KUO FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY EXCHANGE, TAIWAN
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Website
Funding Amount: US $75,657
Project Name: Documents from Chinese Central Asia: A Preliminary Database of the Stein Collection in the British Library
Project Name: The International Dunhuang Project: Database Expansion
Project Name: The International Dunhuang Project: Database Expansion/cont.
Project Name: Cataloguing of the Chinese Dunhuang manuscripts at the Institute of Oriental Studies - St Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Funding Period: 2007
Funding Amount: Euros €30.000
Project Name: Cataloguing of the Chinese Dunhuang manuscripts at the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
IDP was founded in 1994 with a three-year grant from The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCK). This grant was then twice extended for a total of two more years. CCK funded the main part of IDP's work during its establishment. In particular, it contributed towards the design and installation of the IDP database and the entry of preliminary cataloguing records which enabled the launch of the IDP website in 1998.
EDUCATION, AUDIOVISUAL & CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY, EUROPEAN UNION
The Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Website
Funding Amount: €177,059
Project Name: The International Dunhuang Project: Cultural Routes of Eurasia (IDP-CREA)
IDP-CREA was a 15-month collaborative project between six EU partners (from the UK, Hungary, France, and Germany) and three associate partners from China. The project drew together stories of the European explorers, archaeologists and scholars who travelled in Central Asia in the early years of the twentieth century, illustrating a shared Eurasian culture that has existed for centuries and which continues to this day.
IDP-CREA has successfully developed IDP's collaborative model by including three European partners and adding 69,648 new images and metadata to the IDP website. IDP-CREA also created a new set of scholarly and educational resources on Silk Road collections in Europe and the European exploration that resulted in the journeys of objects from archaeological sites in Central Asia to European cultural institutions in the early twentieth century.
THE FORD FOUNDATION, USA
The Ford Foundation Website
Funding Amount: US $300,000
Project Name: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Scholarly Resources on the Silk Road
The Ford Foundation's grant was directed at hitherto neglected Silk Road collections in Russia, China and India. The project brought together curators of Silk Road collections from these countries, with young and established scholars, and encouraged them to collaborate to build up shared web resources and expertise on Silk Road materials.
IDP UK trained one scholar from each of these countries in research methods, image management, catalo. This resulted in new items from Central Asian collections being catalogued, digitised and made available online.
Project Name: Building Skills and Resources
This project aims to train young staff at the Dunhuang Academy (DHA) and the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) in field photography, image production and management, web design, web resource creation and educational programmes. These staff will prepare a body of high-quality, historically accurate and image rich digital data that will be delivered through the multi-lingual websites at DHA and IDP. Educational workshops will be organised at schools local to the British Library and Dunhuang Academy from which web and print resources will be produced.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND (HEFCE), UK
Higher Education Funding Council for England Website
Funding Amount: GB £150,000 + GB £9,500 (increased grant awarded in 2004–2005 for increased salary and travel costs)
Project Name: HEFCE-British Library International Collaboration
In 2001 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) agreed to fund a Network and Digitisation Manager for IDP for five years to build links internationally and to direct the work of IDP China. The terms of reference were revised with the opening of IDP Centres in Russia, Japan and Germany during the grant period and the grant increased to take into account the additional travel.
THE LEVERHULME TRUST, UK
The Leverhulme Trust Website
Project Name: A Palaeographic Study of the Chinese and Tibetan Manuscripts from the Dunhuang Collections
In 2005 the Leverhulme Trust provided funding for a three-year research project covering the palaeography, codicology and the social context of the Chinese and Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts.
The first two years of the project were mainly concerned with gathering data through palaeographic and codicological analysis of the manuscripts and 'cutting out' syllable and character forms from digital images of the manuscripts. In the third year, an online resource making use of this data was developed. At the same time, the project's researchers, Susan Whitfield, Sam van Schaik and Imre Galambos began using the data in their research.
In 2008, at the end of the three years, the Leverhulme Trust provided a further two years of funding, for the publication of the results of the research and the creation of an online educational tool. During the this period the researchers published numerous articles, and a book co-authored by Sam van Schaik and Imre Galambos will be published in Spring 2011.
See the Research Pages for the results of this project.
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION, USA
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Website
Funding Amount: US $1.1 million; US $265,000 (additional grant for conservators December 2001); US $182,000 (additional grant for additional image manipulator and equipment April 2003)
Project Name: Dunhuang Digitisation Project
Funding Period: 2004–2007 (St. Petersburg)
Project Name: The Conservation, Digitisation and Documentation of Scrolls held by the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a four-year project (2001–2005) for conservation and digitisation of the British Library's Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang for incorporation on ArtStor. The project involved the creation of over 40,000 digital images comprising 3,788 manuscripts with accompanying metadata and the conservation of several hundred scrolls and fragments. The images and metadata were also added to the IDP archive and website.
The Mellon Foundation also awarded IDP and the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS) an additional grant in 2004 to digitise Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang at the IOS. This project was completed in 2007 and the images incorporated onto IDP and ArtStor.
NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND (NHMF), UK
National Heritage Memorial Fund Website
Project Name: Entering Stein Materials into the IDP Database
In 1997 IDP received a three-year grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) to digitise and catalogue material from Dunhuang. The NHMF grant covered the preliminary database entry of the Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut material. The images and data enabled the launch of the IDP website in 1998.
THE PIDEM FUND
Project Name: IDP Grant
In 2005 the Pidem Fund awarded IDP an annual grant of GB £40,000 for five years for general IDP work. The grant is enabling the day to day work of IDP as well as the development of the map interface.
The Pidem Fund also contributed to the 2004 Silk Road Exhibition.
THE SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST (SBFT), UK
About the Sino-British Fellowship Trust
Funding Period: 1997–present
Funding Amount (awarded to the Chinese section of the British Library): GB £70,000
Project Name: Travel grant for Chinese scholars to visit UK for the Dunhuang Manuscript Project and (from 2003) for IDP scholars to visit China for training and research.
Funding Amount: GB £ 64,000 (£13,000 p.a. (GB £12,000 in year one)) towards staff costs
Project Name: Grant for IDP China
Funding Period: 2006/7–2011
Funding Amount: GB £82,500 (£16,500 p.a.)
Project Name: Grant for IDP China Digitisation Studio
Prior to the start of IDP the Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT) provided five grants to Chinese Section of the British Library for visits by Chinese scholars and conservators to work on the conservation and cataloguing of the Dunhuang material. From 1997 SBFT gave an annual travel grant enabling one to three visits per annum to the UK by Chinese scholars and conservators to work on the Dunhuang and other material in the British Library. This continues to the present. From 2003 to 2006 a separate travel grant enabled training and research visits both to and from China specifically for IDP work and training.
In 2001 the British Library and the National Library of China (NLC) began a five-year collaboration, funded by the SBFT, to catalogue and digitise Dunhuang manuscripts at the NLC and include them on the IDP website. SBFT's grant covered staff salaries at the NLC.
In 2006 SBFT agreed a further five-year grant to cover the salaries of IDP digitisation staff at the National Library of China as part of the studio's expansion of IDP China.
SBFT also contributed towards the 2004 Silk Road exhibition at the British Library.
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Streetcar projects as spatial planning: A shift in transport planning in the United States
David A. King
Lauren Ames Fischer
place - north america, mode - tram/light rail, land use - planning, land use - impacts, economics - benefits
Spatial planning, Streetcars, Voter referendum, Economic development, Placemaking
Currently dozens of U.S. cities are in the midst of planning and building modern streetcar systems. Though seemingly mobility investments, the intended impacts of these streetcar projects reach beyond transportation and represent a strong turn toward strategic spatial planning through transportation infrastructure. Proponents of modern streetcars argue that they are tools of placemaking as much as if not more than improvements for transit services. Unlike transit investments of a century ago, when privately operated streetcars were a decentralizing force that helped disperse overcrowded central city cores and open new land for real estate development, current streetcar projects in the United States are expected to concentrate activity and economic development in select corridors. The majority of these new systems rely on transit technologies that are significantly improved over the carriages of old, with modern features, smooth rides and quiet operations. Yet for all the improvements to the vehicles and services, new streetcar investments no longer primarily improve transit accessibility. Rather, modern streetcars are part of strategic amenity packages cities use to achieve real estate and economic development goals. This use of transportation infrastructure as an amenity for a particular location is a shift away from traditional transportation planning processes, and the expected benefits, in particular, stand apart as being deliberately spatial. We use planning documents and data from ballot box initiatives to evaluate expected transportation benefits relative to indirect benefits through economic development. We find that approximately three-quarters of all expected benefits from streetcar projects accrue to property development with the remaining expected benefits assigned to transportation. However, we do not find sufficient empirical evidence in the literature to support such certain claims of positive effects on property values and the built environment. We argue that the increasing tendency of cities to leverage streetcar projects for non-transportation purposes represents a turn to the use of infrastructure as a tool of spatial planning.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.
Journal of Transport Geography home Page:
King, D.A. & Fischer, L.A. (2016). Streetcar projects as spatial planning: A shift in transport planning in the United States. Journal of Transport Geography, Available online 28 February 2016. In Press, Corrected Proof — Note to users.


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I had a blog back in '04 when I lived in Argentina. It detailed the crazy adventures of a single twenty-something free-spirited nomad. Now, I'm a thirty-something free spirit, a step-mom, and a wife. My how things have changed!
I'm opening a CrossFit Affiliate at the end of August. For those of you who've never heard of CrossFit, it is "constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement." I'm excited to open the box; however there is that sense of trepidation that arises out of fear of the unknown. If I build it, will the athletes come?
The purpose of this blog is to hold myself acountable to my business and my workouts, to hopefully inspire people to get fit, and to allow people a glimpse into a once chaotic life that somehow managed to find balance. I hope you enjoy!


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You can do this by either entering a reference number (if you have seen the position advertised) or by entering a keyword. Alternatively, if you want to view all our current job listings simply click on the "Vacancies" tab above.
If you have a CV in a compatible format simply upload it onto our system by following a couple of simple steps. If you do not already have a professionally formatted CV you can use our system to build one for you free of charge. This may take you a little longer, but having a well laid out CV certainly helps enhances application.
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You have the option of taking a short personality test to submit with your application. Whilst taking this may greatly improve your chances of advancing to the interview stage, it is not compulsory, so please do not feel pressured to take it.


Graebert of Germany continues to make strides in CAD market share in Asia. Japan is one of its key markets where OEM product JDraf is a popular DWG native CAD solution competing for market share gains against AutoCAD, which in recent financial filings has indicated troubles in that market.
Graebert of Germany is the maker of the ARES Commander DWG-based 2D/3D CAD product line and a technology provider to big-name CAD giants who repackage ARES Commander (OEM versions) in various ways and sell it under their own brands. Corel of Canada and French industrial giant Dassault Systemes are two such examples.
However, in Japan, Graebert has a local partner selling an OEM version of ARES known in the Japanese CAD market—the second biggest CAD market in the world after the US—as JDraf.
01 – ARES Commander for Mac by Graebert powers both CorelCAD for Mac and Dassault's DraftSight. The DWG-native CAD program powers OEM solutions across Mac, Windows and Linux distributions, with particular OEMs focusing on geographic and industry sector markets with both small and larger customizations to ARES core tech.
JDraf in Japan is selling a product of the same name and goes head-to-head with Autodesk's AutoCAD and other primary 2D CAD systems. 2D CAD in Japan has persisted longer in their market due to industrial cultural forces around dependability and quality, items that gave the Japanese auto-sector advantages over Detroit back in the 1980's and 1990's. It isn't dependable to be 'experimenting' with CAD systems, is how things are sometimes seen in Japan. Japan also has a long tradition of using Japanese produced software in the CAD/CAM industries, particularly the 2D oriented kind and in the AEC markets their own CAE (computer-aided engineering) or analysis packages.
Graebert has told Architosh that outside of the US, Autodesk has to compete more vigorously against both local and international players. This is something we have heard before. In markets where there are strong localized offerings (as in Germany and Japan) the US CAD giant isn't nearly as strong as in its home country and is often not the largest market share leader in these foreign markets. In stories about Graphisoft's commanding wins with the Big 5 in Japan in the area of BIM, Architosh has already noted this.
Even in Autodesk's recent earnings report, the company reported troubles in Japan. Regardless, the AutoCAD market is still vast and a primary reason why the US CAD giant has so many new stronger competitors nibbling at its market share, particularly over-seas from its commanding domain in the US. At this moment, Graebert continues to make strong strides with its ARES Commander based CAD solutions in Asia and Japan in particular. In Japan, JDraf is the product that is increasing the use of ARES technology.
02 – Graebert recently had a very successful APAC partners meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.


In a first for women's football in NSW, this Sunday's NPL Womens 1 Grand Final will be streamed LIVE online.
Football NSW will host a LIVE stream from Lambert Park as Macarthur Rams take on FNSW Institute. The Rams have been the standout team throughout the season having sat atop the ladder from start to finish, securing the Premiership with four rounds remaining.
On the flipside, the FNSW Institute found themselves bottom of the pile after seven rounds but by the final round had surged up to third, which included a stretch of nine games unbeaten.
In the sides' previous meetings this season, Macarthur lead 2-1 on their head to head. The Rams won the first two matches 4-2 and 2-1 respectively before the Institute scored an impressive 3-0 victory the last time the teams met. But that encounter was just over two months ago so who knows how Sunday's grand final will unfold.
The match starts at 4.30pm AEST, with the day kicking off with the Under 13 Grand Final at 8.30am.
Click here for a full preview of the match and click here for the stream.
Although play stops in some states the National Premier Leagues isn't completely going away this Easter long weekend. First stop: Sydney's Lambert Park, where APIA Leichhardt Tigers are looking to move into top spot with a victory against fellow heavyweights Blacktown City.
Marconi Stallions have moved into the top five in NSW after a first-half masterclass against Sydney United 58 on Saturday night. The Stallions brushed aside United 5-0, with all five goals coming in the first 45 minutes, including doubles to Marko Jesic and Mirjan Pavlovic.


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Africa > Sudan
Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade
Richard Ammon | July 13, 2022 | Sudan | GlobalGayz
Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country's new regime is rolling back women's rights
A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the first known case in the country for almost a decade.
Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, was arrested by police in Sudan's White Nile state last month.
Tiyrab says she is appealing against the decision. The majority of stoning sentences, which are predominantly against women, are overturned in the high court.
Campaigners worry the sentence is a sign that the military coup in October has emboldened lawmakers to roll back small gains for women's rights made under the country's transitional government.
The African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), based in Uganda, said the sentence violated domestic and international law and called for Tiyrab's "immediate and unconditional release".
The centre said the woman was not given a fair trial and was not told that the information she gave during interrogation would be used against her. Tiyrab was also denied legal representation, it said.
"The application of the death penalty by stoning for the crime of adultery is a grave violation of international law, including the right to life and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the centre said.
In 2020, Sudan's transitional government, which followed the ousting of Omar al-Bashir, announced reforms to some of its hardline criminal laws and Sharia policies. The reforms did not include stoning, but in August the country ratified the UN convention against torture. The ACJPS said stoning was a form of state-sanctioned torture and was in breach of the country's human rights obligations.
Jehanne Henry, a human rights lawyer, said the sentence "shows that harsh sharia laws [and] penalties are still being implemented in Sudan".
"The death by stoning case is a reminder that the criminal law reforms during the transition [government] were not complete, and that such harsh, archaic punishments are still officially on the books."
Flogging, which was outlawed in 2020, is still handed out as a punishment by the courts. The last known case of a woman sentenced to stoning for adultery was in South Kordofan state in 2013. The sentence was overturned.
by Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Source – The Guardian
Tags: Sudan gay rights


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From Royals To Kinship In Odisha Panchayat Polls:political parties often evince keen interest in dynasties
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been adjudged the Most Popular CM of the country yet again
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Bhubaneswar: 27/4/17;BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said there is no infighting in the party.
"I do not feel any infighting in the party. Where is infighting?" Patnaik told reporters after his return from his five-day visit to the national capital. When asked whether infighting in the regional outfit has been making the party weak, he said, "Who says the party is going weak? I don't think its going weak at all? We are the largest party in the state. We have won four terms in a row."
Reacting to the controversial article written by BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab in an Odia newspaper, the BJD president said he has not gone through the article yet. On his visit to the residence of former prime minister A B Vajpayee during his stay in Delhi, Patnaik said "I heard Mr Vajpayee was not feeling well. So I paid a courtesy visit." On claims made by a section of BJP leaders in Odisha that he wanted an alliance with the saffron party ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Chief Minister said "That is not correct."
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Music plays a vital role in establishing the mood for your adventures across the world of Orbis. Over the last couple of months, we've provided a few opportunities to sample Hytale's soundtrack. Back in January, we released two full tracks - Traveling Band and Night on the Dunes - which set the stage for your journey. Then, in our key art showcase, we chose samples from some of Hytale's ambient music to match the mood of each piece.
Today we're releasing three new tracks from Hytale's soundtrack, along with developer insight into how each was composed and how they fit into Hytale's adventure mode.
Zone 1 provides a (mostly) sunny start to your adventures in Orbis.
The title of this piece tells you everything you need to know about its place in Hytale. Kweebec Village is the soundtrack to the various Kweebec settlements you'll encounter in zone 1, and its tone and instrumentation reflect the personality of the Kweebecs themselves.
Kweebecs are welcoming folk, but don't show up in their villages wielding an axe!
Hytale's music helps us to tell the story of Orbis - indeed, the themes being expressed in any given piece reinforce specific elements of the lore. "I made use of the main Hytale motif as a key building block when creating this melody for the very reason that the Kweebecs are important to the story" Oscar says.
Why is it called 'Gaia's Lament'? You'll just have to wait and see!
Gaia's Lament illustrates the sort of contrasts we're hoping to create within Hytale's music, art, and story - from cute to epic, outgoing to introspective, upbeat to imposing. Despite this tonal range, however, one of the jobs of the soundtrack is to ensure that it all comes together to form a coherent whole.
Want to download the video loops featured in this post? Get them here!


SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – July 14, 2011 – The California Tahoe Conservancy today announced a $620,000 grant to Placer County to reduce polluted runoff from State Route 28 and the surrounding Brockway neighborhood. Together with the adjacent Boulder Bay project, which was recently approved by TRPA, the Placer County project will significantly reduce one of the largest sources of pollutants that damage the clarity of Lake Tahoe.
The project will capture and treat sediment and other pollutants that now drain directly into Lake Tahoe, and will establish a new meandering channel and paved walkway to Speedboat Beach. The developers of the adjacent Boulder Bay project will fund and construct their own highly advanced treatment facilities as part of a coordinated approach to reduce runoff from State Route 28, neighborhood streets, and private developments in the Brockway area that straddles California and Nevada.
The Conservancy's grant provides the final share of funding for the $3.3 million project, and supplements previous Conservancy planning and acquisition grants totalling over $1.35 million. Other funders include the US Forest Service, TRPA, and the State of Nevada. Construction will begin in August 2011.
The Tahoe Conservancy leads California's efforts to restore and improve the natural and recreational resources of the Lake Tahoe basin. Since its inception in 1985, the Conservancy has invested over $400 million in Tahoe conservation and recreation projects, and owns over 6,000 acres of neighborhood open space, lakefront parks and watershed lands.


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Deeply rooted in the city for over 175 years, Zoo Berlin is one of the German capital's major landmarks. Germany's oldest zoo has not only captured the hearts of Berliners; visitors from all over the world also enjoy exploring the animal world of Zoo Berlin.
Would you like to become a partner?
As the oldest public limited company in the city, Zoo Berlin is a reliable partner set amidst picturesque scenery in the heart of the city.
Contact us by email to info@ zoo-berlin.de.
You have the chance to meet other animals lovers by joining the Freunde der Hauptstadtzoos club while supporting Tierpark, Zoo and Aquarium Berlin in their further development.
Successful cooperation
A heart for rhinos
The Sparkasse bank has been the main sponsor of the Zoo School for many years. It also sponsors our female rhinoceros Maburi and finances, among other things, lovingly compiled gift sets for birthday boys and girls.
Exciting research
How do children learn, and how can they absorb information about the world quickly and effectively? With its research group iSearch, the Max Planck Society is investigating how children actively seek out information in their physical and social environment – including at Zoo Berlin. The research group is present on site with a mobile research station, and young zoo visitors are welcome to pop in and participate in exciting experiments.
Helping handcarts
At BIKINI Berlin, you can enjoy a cup of coffee and peruse the shops while watching animals in the Zoo next door. BIKINI is also supporting Zoo Berlin with the new acquisition of handcarts, each of which bears the sponsor's logo.
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Is Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Even on the Agenda in Warsaw?
byAndrew Burger
A sunny day in Beijing
For all their potential promise, apparent earnestness and gravity – not to mention their possible effects and potential ramifications – it's hard at times not to be cynical about high-level political negotiations. Such might be felt of the United Nations (UN) climate treaty negotiations which got under way this week in Warsaw, Poland.
People have good reason to be skeptical of the climate treaty process, not because global warming and climate change are based on faulty science or because viable options aren't in hand, but because governments and societies around the world are so invested in fossil fuels that the thought that political leaders would collectively take aggressive action to phase out carbon and greenhouse gas emissions is nigh unthinkable.
Take, for example, that even as representatives from the 195 UN member nations party to the UN Framework on Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet to establish the framework of an agreement to reduce global carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that G20 governments doled out $523 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers in 2011, the latest year such figures are available. What's more, fossil fuel subsidies are rising, even as the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) just last week reported that global greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high in 2012.
To say such subsidies are counterproductive would be gross understatement. Perverse would be a better modifier. Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would remove a perverse incentive that stands in the way of leveling the energy markets "playing field," putting a true cost on carbon in an attempt to address global warming and climate change.
Releasing a report entitled Time to change the game: Fossil fuel subsidies and climate, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) documents "the scale of fossil fuel subsidies and sets out a practical agenda for their elimination in the context of the global goal of tackling climate change."
Climate treaty negotiators convene in Warsaw
Against the backdrop of devastation in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan – reportedly one of, if not the largest and strongest, typhoon ever recorded – the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the UNFCCC is convening November 11-22 in (ironically enough) Warsaw, Poland, a nation with a government that has steadfastly resisted efforts to shift off coal and fossil fuels toward a more diversified energy mix centered on cleaner, renewable alternatives.
Convening at COP 19 in Warsaw over the next 11 days, representatives from the 195 UN member nations that are parties to the international climate treaty (the U.S. included) and the 192 that have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol (the U.S. excluded) will attempt to hammer out the framework of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Full details of a new accord to reduce global carbon and greenhouse gas emissions are to be ready for signing by 2015 to go into effect in 2020.
Trying to make the negotiations as inclusive as possible, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) has become a major public event. At COP 19 in Warsaw, representatives of 195 UN member nations will be joined by a host of NGOs, civic groups, other public and private sector organizations, the press, and, more than likely, large numbers of demonstrators.
Enhancing the efficacy and credibility of global climate change action
The UNFCCC's public credibility – not to mention its efficacy – would be greatly enhanced if the national governments party to the international treaty were to take one expedient, cost-effective step: eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, ODI asserts, and they are by no means the first to advocate taking such a step.
Source: "Time to change the game," ODI, 11/2013
Straight from the executive summary of "Time to change the game: Fossil fuel subsidies and climate," here are ODI's key points:
Fossil fuel subsidies are expensive. They were at over $500 billion globally in 2011, and up to $90 billion in the OECD alone.
These subsidies are increasing and are a major obstacle to green investment, and seriously undermine attempts to put a price on carbon.
In developing countries the majority of benefits from fossil fuel subsidies go to the richest 20 percent of households.
Domestic and international support for fossil fuels dwarfs spending on health and education in a number of countries, and outstrips climate finance and aid.
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies in G20 countries by 2020 (and globally by 2025), with proper safeguards for the poor, would enable the triple win of inclusive green growth.
Perverse incentives indeed, and the above is only a short list. According to ODI's study, "international financial institutions (IFIs) also support carbon-intensive energy systems.
"Over 75 percent of energy-project support from IFIs to 12 of the top developing-country emitters went to fossil fuel projects. There has been no significant shift in this trend: in the last financial year alone (2012-13), the World Bank Group increased its lending for fossil fuel projects to $2.7 billion, including continued lending for oil and gas exploration (Oil Change International, 2013)."
As ODI goes on to state:
"If their aim is to avoid dangerous climate change, governments are shooting themselves in both feet. They are subsidizing the very activities that are pushing the world towards dangerous climate change, and creating barriers to investment in low-carbon development and subsidy incentives that encourage investment in carbon-intensive energy.
"Coal, the most carbon-intensive fuel of all, is taxed less than any other source of energy and is, in some countries, actively subsidized (OECD, 2013a). For every $1 spent to support renewable energy, another $6 are spent on fossil fuel subsidies (IEA, 2013)."
Following, in summary form, are the key actions ODI is urging G20 UNFCCC climate treaty delegates take in Warsaw:
G20 countries use the Warsaw CoP meeting to agree a broad timeline for action
G20 governments call on technical agencies to agree a common definition of fossil fuel subsidies
G20 governments commit to phasing out all fossil fuel subsidies by 2020, with early action by rich-country members on subsidies to coal and to oil and gas exploration by 2015
that governments and donors work together to ensure that measures are put in place to protect vulnerable groups from the impact of subsidy removal.
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would be one of the most straightforward, cost-effective and effective steps world governments could take to address the profound threats and rising costs of addressing global warming and climate change. Will they muster the will and toughness to do so? Not likely, but one can at least hope for the best.
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