Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950419195805.24473A-100000@nywork2.undp.org> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 19:58:46 -0400 From: Mike Gurstein <mailto:mikeg@NYWORK2.UNDP.ORG> Subject: Earth Negotiations Coverage of PrepCom II (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
this will interest some on this list.Mike Gurstein
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:59:23 +0200 From: Langston James Goree VI <mailto:kimo@pipeline.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <mailto:habitat2@cedar.univie.ac.at> Subject: Earth Negotiations Coverage of PrepCom II
Dear List;
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin will publish daily issues at the upcoming meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II). For those of you unfamiliar with our work, the ENB is a reporting service for environment and development negotiations. We have recently published daily and summary reports for the negotiating processes associated with the Small Island Developing States Conference, the UN Conference on Population and Development, the Social Summit and the Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification Conventions.
The ENB is distributed each morning to the participants at UN negotiations and uploaded into the Internet. We will send daily issues from Habitat-II PrepCom II to this list. In addition, archived copies of our issues can be found at our World Wide Web site, Linkages <http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/>, and at the gopher server at <gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org>.
For those participants in the list who are interested in other electronic material produced by the ENB, I have attached our e-blurb. Please feel free to contact me for further information on our coverage of the Habitat II negotiations.
Regards,
Kimo HOW TO RECEIVE THE EARTH NEGOTIATIONS BULLETIN ELECTRONICALLY
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin is published in two formats: the hard-copy version distributed at negotiations and mailed to our readers in more than 95 countries; and an electronic edition that is "uploaded" to the international computer networks and instantly available to millions of users from thousands of different computer networks.
The electronic version of the ENB is available "on-line" shortly after we close each issue and can be sent to your electronic mailbox or accessed free-of-charge. Here are the various ways to receive the electronic version
of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
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ASCII: To begin receiving the Earth Negotiations Bulletin in ASCII at your e-mailbox send, a mail message to <mailto:listserver@ciesin.org>. This message should contain only one line as follows:
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You will receive each ENB as a binary file, sent as a UUENCODE file attachment to your e-mailbox. Each daily issue will come in a file of approximately 170K and summary issues will be much larger. In order to read these files, you will need to have an e-mail program that can UUDECODE attachments and a copy of the freely distributed Adobe Acrobat Reader software. When each issue arrives, you will be able to view and print a copy of our Bulletin in exactly the same format as it is printed at the negotiation. In order to receive a copy of the free reader software, you can use your WWW-browser software to contact <http://www.adobe.com> or FTP to ftp://ftp.adobe.com.
When you contact our listserver, your e-mail address will be added automatically to the list and you will begin receiving each and every issue
that we publish. If this gets to be too much, you can always cancel your subscription by sending the same message to <mailto:listserver@ciesin.org>, substituting "unsubscribe" for "subscribe".
World Wide Web: The Earth Negotiations Bulletin has its own World Wide Web
server called Linkages: A Multimedia Resource for Environment and Development Policy Makers. In order to visit our Web site you will need a browser like Mosaic, Netscape or Linx. Our WWW server is located at:
The Linkages is an intelligent filter for on-line data related to the following international environment and development policy activities:
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD); The Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Conference; The World Summit for Social Development; The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements; The Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought; The Convention on Biological Diversity; The Convention on Climate Change; The International Conference on Population and Development; The Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; The various international forest policy initiatives including the Malaysian/Canadian and Helsinki processes.
In one spot on the Internet you can find: the most up-to-date information on past and upcoming meetings; a hypertext searchable index to all the issues of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin; links to the official UN documents stored on the UN computers for each of the meetings; full-text versions of selected interventions; NGO, UN and Government position papers;
background documents to the issues under discussion; and (soon) video and audio clips.
In the four months that Linkages has been in place on the Internet it has had over 50,000 file accesses from more than 40 countries. Some of the users have been from development and environment ministries, UN missions in
New York and Geneva, UN agencies like UNDP, UNEP and FAO, NGOs and thousands of accesses from users at academic institutions.
Gopher version: The ENB is posted to an information server, called a "gopher", located on the Institute for Global Communications' (IGC) system
in San Francisco, California. Any user on one of the millions of computers
with access to the Internet can reach this system and have the ENB transferred automatically by connecting to the gopher at <gopher.igc.apc.org>. At the main menu you will find a selection for "Trade
and Sustainable Development" and under this item the Earth Negotiations Bulletin and submenus for each of the eleven volumes of the Bulletin.
The APC Networks: The ENB is uploaded to several electronic conferences on
the computer networks that make up the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), a coalition of independent, non-governmental and mostly non-profit computer network systems cooperating to provide networking and information-sharing tools worldwide. All issues of the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin can be found in the conference <enb.library> and issues specific to a given conference or negotiation can be found in the electronic conference established for that meeting. For the daily and summary issue from the First Conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity, look in the conference <biodiversity>. For more information on the APC networks and how you can connect to one near you, send a message to <mailto:apc-info@apc.org> and an APC brochure will be sent automatically to your e-mailbox or call ECONET at +1 415 442 0220.
Our e-mail address: You can always send e-mail directly to us at mailto:<enb@igc.apc.org> or to the Managing Editor, at <kimo@pipeline.com>. If you
would like to make arrangements for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin to be electronically distributed within your organization, contact us for details. We always like to hear about ways that the ENB is being used and receive feedback from our readers around the world.
-- Langston James Goree VI (Kimo), Managing Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin <mailto:kimo@pipeline.com> Alphanumeric pager (short messages): <mailto:2613845@skymail.com> Tel.&Fax: +1 212 888 2737 Personal WWW: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/kimo/kimo.html