<<February 21, 2008>>
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Johnanne Winchester <johnannewin@gmail.com>
Nicoline Meijer MA <n.meijer@geo.uu.nl>
Andrea M. Bassi <ab@millennium-institute.org>
Weishuang Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>
Akira Onishi (Prof. Dr) <onishi@cgmfost.org>
Tatiana Novikova, Ph.D., Dr. Sci. <tsnovikova@mail.ru>
Andrei Kortunov <akortunov@neweurasia.ru>
Dear Johnanne:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
I read your ÒPlanet Earth Roundtable Executive SummaryÓ with great interest.
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2pu7n4>
(2) You may be interested in browsing the following papers;
(a)
Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a
This is in the following book;
Global Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis -
Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the
following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt
This article tells about our large-scale gaming simulation
held in July, 1986 with prominent economists of Japan and the US, which
utilized FUGI world largest econometric simulation model in HitachiÕs
supercomputer in Tokyo. The subject was about the US-Japan trade issues
in relation to the oil crisis.
(b) I wonder if you might be interested in our following project, which we are
now initiating, as the extension of the above gaming exercise;
Quantitative Policy Analysis of Global
Socio-Economic-Energy-Environment Development (GSEEED) Project
http://preview.tinyurl.com/337nrn
This GSEEED Project will construct Globally Distributed Socio-Economic-Energy-Environmental
Simulation System through broadband Internet, which will have two tier system:
(i) One for training young would-be decision makers in
crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques basing on
"facts and figures" and
(ii) The other for helping decision makers construct a globally distributed
decision-support system for positive sum/win-win alternatives to conflict and
war.
Pls see its synopsis in the Application Cover Sheet at the URL.
You can also find the list of working group members in its ANNEX I.
(3) Pls see more about them in the following list distribution;
(02/06/08)
Inquiry about NASA's Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game project
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yndnc
Dear Ms. Meijer:
(4) I read your msg (ATTACHMENT II) with great interest.
You may contact following person in your country — she is listed in the
ANNEX I mentioned above;
Dr.
Dorien J. DeTombe
Chair international & Euro Operational Research Working Group
Complex Societal Problems & Issues
P.O. Box. 3286, 1001 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe
Tel: +31 20 6927526
E-Mail: DorienDeTombe@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/doriendetombe
Pls feel free to contact me if we can be of any help to you.
Dear Johnanne:
(5) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III).
Our GCEPG and GSEEED projects go along with our GUS project.
Our GSEEED project firstly focus on the energy security, but it naturally goes
along and will be expanded to include global warming issues.
Thus, pls feel free to introduce our projects to the United Nations Environment
Programme. I think that the so-called Ògreen economyÓ can be realized
with the appropriate conflict resolutions mechanism among stakeholders basing
on the ÒFacts and Figures,Ó which can be made with gaming simulation.
This will also guide appropriate investment of huge money for betterment
of our society of the future generations.
Dear Andrea:
(6) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT IV), as indicating your willingness
to attend our workshop in Novosibirsk. It is still tentative, but we will
let you know when confirmed.
Yes, your role is to integrate different models and approaches for their acting
as a single comprehensive global simulation model.
Such
integration of models may be done with variable exchange on a huge time series
table.
Dear Weishuang:
(7) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT V).
When Andrea will be in Novosibirsk, she may be able to find out the Chinese
counterpart colleagues of the gas-pipe line project from Siberian stakeholders
of the project.
Dear
Tatiana:
Pls contact
me ASAP about your grant application to Andrei Kortunov of the New Eurasia
Foundation for your workshop in Novosibirsk this coming summer. Pls see
Item (4) of;
(02/13/08) Inquiry on workshop in Novosibirsk and Gorno Altaisk, Siberia in
late June
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywvly5
Your Chinese colleagues may then be able to assist or work with them to
construct energy model of China. In a sense, this project may also
provide them with an opportunity to acquire English speaking capability.
Anyway, letÕs keep in touch and let me know if the national economy model of T21
China model will be updated and will be ready to work with GSEEED project.
(8) BTW, about your difficulty of my list distribution, you may be receiving it
in text-format, rather than html format — see its description in;
(02/20/08)
Trouble of our list distribution
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2x8qnw
Dear Andrea:
(9) I am very happy to know that you are invited to present your T21 in Karachi
in August, 2008.
Yes, I hope this will lead to your involvement in their ADB funded energy
modeling project.
(10) I hope this will lead to the similar modeling projects of the so-called
ÒstanÓ countries along the Modern Silk Road proposed by the ADB in the near
future;
$18
Billion Plan to Build New 'Silk Roads' through Central Asia
<http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2007/12241-central-asian-roads-transports/default.asp>.
As said in my previous list distributions, Japan has keen interest in them for
securing energy and natural sources in the years to come. As said also,
we plan to propose to the ADB to deploy ultra high speed optical fiber lines
along the Modern Silk Road.
(11) BTW, you forgot to attach your brief bio. Pls send it to me at your
earliest convenience.
Dear Prof. Onishi:
(12) Many, many thanks for your excellent paper on;
TRADE
POLICY IN THE GLOBALIZING WORLD
-Policy modeling and simulations of futures-
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2jje32>
Appendix A <http://preview.tinyurl.com/yvy6tn>
Appendix B <http://preview.tinyurl.com/23pskd>
Appendix C <http://preview.tinyurl.com/28jh94>
The very first para of your paper aptly stated the need of confrontation
resolution — which may probably be made with the use of global gaming
approach.
Dear
Andrea and Weishuang:
His paper may
be of some interest to you. His FUGI model may be the central and basic
model of our GSEEED project to which other countriesÕ models refer.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From:
johnanne
winchester <johnannewin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19
Feb 2008 12:04:45 -0500
To: <n.meijer@geo.uu.nl>,
Ed de Mulder <e.demulder@planet.nl>, Larry Woodfork
<woodfork@earthlink.net>, Ralph Baird <ralph@bairdusa.com>, Jack
Piers Ballentyne <deppenschmidt@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert
Nagel <Robert@robertnagel.org>, "dclark614@optonline.net"
<dclark614@optonline.net>, "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D."
<utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Earth
Quest Online Game
Dear
Ms. Meijer,
Congratulations on the launch of your your Earth Quest Global Initiative.
As a member of the Media and Documentation team retained by the International
IYPE Board, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of some of your Earth Quest
Team in your excellent exhibit.
I was also videotaping, and scouting for partners for our Planet Earth
Roundtable Media Platform.
We also plan to develop an online game, or co-brand and cross promote with
other enterprises.. I am copying this communication to some of our long time
Roundtable and IYPE colleagues as well.
As a member of the International Development Committee for the International
Year of Planet Earth, I was wondering if you plan to develop the game in
Partnership with the International Year of Planet Earth corporation, or solely
with your National Committee?
It is our belief that synergistic Intellectual Property sharing and co-Branding
can make us all more attractive to corporate sponsors, curricula and e-learning
developers, and other sources of Recurring Revenue for the ongoing IYPE Earth
Sciences for Society Initiatives.
Please do take a look at the attached Planet Earth Roundtable Executive Summary
for more information.
Sincerely,
Johnanne Winchester
--
Johnanne Winchester
Vice President of International Alliances
Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations
USA 212-969-0111
China mob.# 86-136-5104-3267
ATTACHMENT
II
From:
Nicoline Meijer
<n.meijer@geo.uu.nl>
Date: Thu, 21
Feb 2008 10:13:34 +0100
To: 'johnanne
winchester' <johnannewin@gmail.com>, 'Ed de Mulder'
<e.demulder@planet.nl>, 'Larry Woodfork' <woodfork@earthlink.net>,
'Ralph Baird' <ralph@bairdusa.com>, 'Jack Piers Ballentyne'
<deppenschmidt@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Robert
Nagel' <Robert@robertnagel.org>, <dclark614@optonline.net>,
"'Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.'" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: RE:
Earth Quest Online Game
Dear Ms. Winchester,
Thank you for your e-mail and your positive reaction on our Earth Quest Global
Initiative. One of the reasons to visit the Launch of the International Year of
Planet Earth in Paris was to raise the interest of other countries to
participate in the online game ÔEarth Quest InternationalÕ. So, to answer your
question, we would really like to develop the game in partnership with other
countries or with the International Year of Planet Earth corporation. I also
belief strongly that this will make us all more attractive. The development of
this prestigious game is quite expensive. A partnership can provide also new
ways of financing. The question is now: how do we proceed from here?
Best regards,
Nicoline Meijer
[Nicoline
Meijer MA] | [Director Communications and Marketing] | Faculty of
Geosciences| Utrecht University | Budapestlaan 4 | Room Z. 001 | 3584 CD Utrecht,
The Netherlands | T. + 31 30 253 4990 | F. +31 30 253 4508 | n.meijer@geo.uu.nl <mailto:n.meijer@geo.uu.nl> |
ATTACHMENT
III
From:
johnanne
winchester <johnannewin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20
Feb 2008 12:23:01 -0500
To: Ed de
Mulder <e.demulder@planet.nl>, Daniel Molina
<danielpmolina@gmail.com>, Ralph Baird <ralph@bairdusa.com>, Todd
Sargent <headgate3@mail2world.com>, Larry Woodfork
<woodfork@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
"dclark614@optonline.net" <dclark614@optonline.net>, Robert
Nagel <Robert@robertnagel.org>, Jack Piers Ballentyne
<deppenschmidt@gmail.com>, Jack Hess <jhess@geosociety.org>
Subject: Fwd:
CLIMATE CHANGE RESULTING IN SHIFT TO 'GREEN' ECONOMIES, SAYS UN AGENCY
FYI,
Concepts and Realities for our PR and fund raising mindsets.
I suggest we use the code words "Restoration Economy".
The key is linking the education and training for the Restoration Economy to
the ICT Knowledge Management economy, and entrpreneurial recurring revenue
through e-learning, e-governance, tele-medicine, early warning sytems, etc.
JW
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <UNNews@un.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Subject: CLIMATE CHANGE RESULTING IN SHIFT TO 'GREEN' ECONOMIES, SAYS UN AGENCY
To: news11@secint00.un.org
CLIMATE CHANGE RESULTING IN SHIFT TO 'GREEN' ECONOMIES, SAYS UN AGENCY
New York, Feb 20 2008 11:00AM
More and more companies are embracing environmentally-friendly policies and
investors are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into cleaner and
renewable energies, according to a new publication released today by the United
Nations Environment Programme (<"http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=528&ArticleID=5748&l=en
<http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=528&ArticleID=5748&l=en>
">UNEP).
While the impacts of climate change range from the melting of permafrost and
glaciers to extreme weather events, UNEP's Year Book 2008 shows that it is also
causing a shift in the mind-sets, policies and actions of leaders of
governments, companies and the UN itself.
"Increasingly, combating climate change is being perceived as an
opportunity rather than a burden and a path to a new kind of prosperity as
opposed to a brake on profits and employment," according to the new
report. The emerging 'green' economy is also credited with driving invention
and innovation on a scale not seen since perhaps the industrial revolution.
The Year Book was presented today in Monaco at the opening of the largest
gathering of environment ministers since the landmark UN Climate Change
Conference in Indonesia last December which ended with nearly 200 countries
agreeing in Bali to launch a two-year process of formal negotiations to tackle
the problem of global warming.
UNEP's Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, which is
focusing on the theme "Mobilizing Finance for the Climate Challenge,"
brings together ministers as well as representatives of business, organized
labour, science and civil society.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are now flowing into renewable and clean
energy technologies and trillions more dollars are waiting in the wings looking
to governments for a new and decisive climate regime post 2012 alongside the
creative market mechanisms necessary to achieve this," UNEP Executive
Director Achim Steiner told the Forum.
"Formidable hurdles remain as to whether these funds will ultimately seek
out new, climate-friendly investments for the future or whether they will seek
the lowest common denominator by flowing into the polluting technologies of the
past," he said.
He added that "designing an attractive, creative and equitable investment
landscape which rewards those willing to invest in tomorrow's economy today is
the challenge before ministers here in Monaco and the challenge for the
international community over the next two years."
Despite a great deal of activity, the Year Book notes that many challenges
remain to truly embed new and innovative ideas in the global economy in the
years to come. Subsidies favouring fossil fuels over cleaner energies and
tariff and trade regimes that make cleaner technologies more expensive are just
some of the barriers that need to be overcome.
2008-02-20 00:00:00.000
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ATTACHMENT
IV
From:
Andrea Bassi
<ab@millennium-institute.org>
Date: Wed, 20
Feb 2008 07:49:35 -0500
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Hans R
Herren <hh@millennium-institute.org>, Weishuang Qu
<wq@millennium-institute.org>
Subject: Re:
[gu-new] (02/13/08) Inquiry on workshop in Novosibirsk and Gorno Altaisk,
Siberia in late June
Dear
Tak,
Many thanks for your reply.
I would be glad to attend the workshops. I am not sure I will be available in
the dates you have indicated for Novosibirsk, but I will see what I can do. If
fund for participants are not available we will have to find ways to cover MI's
costs. We can think about this later.
I would like to confirm what you and Hans said re. MI's role. Integrating
different models and approaches is probably what we can do best, facilitating
the discussion among the different parties and reaching an agreement on a
comprehensive model to use for the purposes of our common project.
Thank you for forwarding very useful info on the database and on the FUGI
model. I would be glad to learn more about this model and others. Please keep
forwarding info of this kind. I will contact Prof. Onishi soon.
Re. MI's work in China, the head of MI's modeling team, Dr. Weishuang Qu has
been heading the creation of T21-China. He is probably the best person to give
you advices on whom to involve in the project.
Weishuang, see the text below from Tak:
(7) I understand that your Millennium Institute constructed a China simulation
model with System Dynamics methodology. I am thinking to hold a workshop in
China after the one in Novosibirsk —hopefully in 2009. I would then
wonder if any Chinese might be interested in joining our GSEEED project with
their simulation model. If so, pls
identify them to me — particularly those people who worked on the China
model with you, if any.
On Pakistan, I was contacted by Shahab Khan right after you sent me the email
below. Many thanks for creating this connection. MI has been invited to give a
presentation of T21 in Karachi in August 2008. Hopefully this will lead to an
involvement of MI into the ADB plans for the creation of models to support
energy planning.
Attached is my short bio, please let me know if this suits your needs.
Best,
Andrea
Andrea M. Bassi
Senior Modeler
Millennium Institute
2200 Wilson Blvd. Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Tel. +1 (703) 841 0048
ATTACHMENT
V
From:
Weishuang Qu
<wq@millennium-institute.org>
Date: Wed, 20
Feb 2008 10:24:39 -0500
To: Andrea
Bassi <ab@millennium-institute.org>, <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Hans R
Herren <hh@millennium-institute.org>, <wq@millennium-institute.org>
Subject: China
modeling work
Dear
Tak and Andrea,
Currently we are working on two China models:
1. An automotive vehicle demand model, with the State Information Center
of China (under the Ministry of Development and Reform), and
2. A population/income distribution/poverty/labor demand and supply
model, with the Population Research and Development Center of China (under the
State Commission of Family Planning)
We built a T21 China model in 2003. We are still trying to get a Chinese
partner to update this model to address urgent issues that China and the world
are facing.
The second item above has the potential to move in that direction. We are
also contacting other possible partners, without any firm commitment from them
yet.
Our partners there do not seem to have a good enough mastery of the English
language, so if you do not speak Chinese, communications could be quite slow.
Maybe a more internationally oriented org or an UN agency will be
interested. In that case, communicatiion will be a lot easier and faster.
I hope this info helps.
Andrea, thanks for reminding me to the related details in Tak's email (which I
found not very easy to read). Please continue to do that. Thanks!
Best, WS
ATTACHMENT
VI
From: "akira.onishi"
<akira.onishi@palette.plala.or.jp>
Date: Thu, 21
Feb 2008 13:41:24 +0900
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: My
latest article on Trade Policy in the Globalizing World
Dear Prof. Utsumi
Please you will find the attached files of my latest article on Trade Policy in
the Globalizing World.
I should be most grateful if you could distribute my article to your colleagues
using your excellent global communication network of GLOSAS.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Akira Onishi,
Professor Emeritus Soka University,
Director, Centre for Global Modeling,
Tokyo, Japan
E-mail:onishi@cgmfost.org
E-mail:akira.onishi@palette.plala.org.net
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Johnanne
Winchester
Vice President of International Alliances
Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations
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Nicoline Meijer MA
Director Communications and Marketing
Faculty of Geosciences
Utrecht University
Budapestlaan 4
Room Z. 001
3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
T. + 31 30 253 4990
F. +31 30 253 4508
n.meijer@geo.uu.nl
Andrea M. Bassi
Senior Modeler
Millennium Institute
2200 Wilson Blvd. Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Tel. +1 (703) 841 0048
ab@millennium-institute.org
Weishuang Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>
Akira Onishi (Prof. Dr)
Professor Emeritus Soka University
Director, Centre for Global Modeling
2-16-7-1915
Konan, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 108-0075
Japan
E-mail:onishi@cgmfost.org
E-mail: akira.onishi@palette.plala.or.jp
Tatiana Novikova, Ph.D., Dr. Sci.
Professor,
Novosibirsk State University
Department of Economics
Pirogova str. 2
Novosibirsk, 630090
Russia
and Head Scientist
Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering , Russian Academy of Sciences,
Lavrentiev Ave., 17,
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Tel: +7-383-330 1052
Fax: +7-383-330 2580
e-mail: tsnovikova@mail.ru
Andrei Kortunov
President
THE NEW EURASIA FOUNDATION
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Moscow 105120, Russia
Phone: (495) 970‑1567
Fax: (495) 970‑1568
akortunov@neweurasia.ru
www.neweurasia.ru
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