TABLE OF CONTENTS RECOMMENDATIONS CONERNING GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION STRATEGIES: STATEMENT TOT HE MINISTERS OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY GROUP FORMED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CGCP NOW GLOBAL CHANGE AND CANADA NEW CGCP ANNUAL REPORT TO PROVIDE FACTS, FIGURES AGRICULTURE FORUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE ROYAL SOCIETY'S CASE STUDY OF RESEARCH IN THE MACKENZIE BASIN EXAMINES AQUATIC SCIENCE IN CANADA INTERNATIONAL GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING CLIMATE ON THE INTERNET UPDATE REGARDING PROPOSALS SUBMITTED TO THE IAI PACT OVERVIEW AND UPDATE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE STUDENTSHIP CCP INFO IMPLICATIONS FOR CANADA OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT REPORTS -- AN OVERVIEW INTERNATIONAL MODEL FOREST NETWORK SECRETARIAT TRANSFERRED TO IDRC. EARTH OBSERVATION DATA SETS PROGRAM CALL FOR PROPOSALS WETVNEW TELEVISION NETWORK FOR GLOBAL AUDIENCE   INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITY MONITORING SYSTEM SET UP IN NOVA SCOTIA RECENT PUBLICATIONS EVENTS CALENDAR

WETV --NEW TELEVISION NETWORK FOR GLOBAL AUDIENCE A new TV network designed for viewers living in developing countries was previewed at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. The network's ambitious goal is to create a television channel which will provide access to voices throughout the world while raising awareness of sustainable development and environmental issues. The network, called WETV (from the first word of the We Are the World song of the 1980's), was created by a consortium of public and private-sector interests in response to the Earth Summit's Agenda 21, which called for countries to "establish ways of employing modern communication technologies for effective public outreach." Arthur Campeau, Canada's first ambassador for environment and sustainable development and a senior policy advisor for WETV, pointed out in the December 1994 issue of Maclean's magazine that "the Western media largely promote a world of rising material expectations, fanned by encouragement to increase consumption patterns, which for many are already unsustainable. It's essential that people in developing countries have the opportunity to see a reflection of their own cultures and values on television screens, as opposed to reruns of Roseanne." WETV will be fully launched early in 1996, initially going on the air for six hours a day, with plans to expand to 24 hours a day by the year 2000. The network has already received signed expressions of future interest in both carrying and contributing programming from 24 television networks in the Southern Hemisphere, including networks in Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Kenya, Ukraine and St. Lucia. During its start-up phase, WETV is being directed by an internationally-composed steering committee, with a secretariat based at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. For more information contact the WETV Secretariat, 250 Albert Street, P.O. Box 8500, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3H9; tel: (613) 236-6163; fax: (613) 567-4349.