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Links to More Information about Climate Change and Global Warming

Organizations and Agencies and other Resources

Organizations and Agencies

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Environmental Defense
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• World Resources Institute
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• US Global Change Research Program
• World Meteorological Organization
  Good resource on global weather patterns, including El Nino and La Nina
• Cities for Climate Protection
• Clean Air – Cool Planet
  An NGO focusing on reducing GHG emission in the Northeast by working with other NGO's, businesses and institutions
• Alliance to Save Energy
  A storehouse of suggestions on how to cut energy use and waste; tracks political developments on energy issues at the national and state levels
• American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
  Consumer information on energy efficiency, including guide to green cars, trucks and home energy savings
• US Business Council for a Sustainable Future
  Tracks developments in the renewable-energy industry, especially as it relates to the ongoing international climate negotiations
• EPA's Green Lights and Energy Star Programs
  These programs promote energy-efficient technologies from refrigerators to building design
• Rocky Mountain Institute
  Excellent material on how to reduce energy use through a myriad of efficiency strategies; features an extensive section of FAQs
• Climate Neutral Network
  Provides technical support and a science-based "climate cool" certification
• Climate Institute
  Information on the science of global warming, impacts by region, green energy, global warming events, publications, links
• Climate Solutions
  Includes a compilation of practical steps to reduce emissions for individuals and families, as well as business, agriculture, industry and public institutions
• Worldwatch Institute
  Reports on a range of subjects from renewable energy to climate change impacts on the insurance industry to the role of warming on desertification

Resources

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• New York Times Science Section
• Climate Ark - the premier climate change and renewal energy portal
• Bibliography on environmental change and its impact on species, ecosystems and agriculture by the American Society of International Law's wildlife interest group
• Proceedings from a symposium on conservation biology and NASA discussing remote sensing and forest fragments as well as lianas and edge effect
• Dan Nepstad's group at the Woods Hole Research Center: "Amazon Rainforest Damage Worse Than Feared"
• US Fish and Wildlife Service Arctic National Widlife Refuge ecological regions, with a focus on the coastal plain and foothills
• Goddard DAAC Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection
• NASA's Global Change Master Directory
• US Global Change Research Information Project provies access to data and information on the climate change research, adaptation/mitigation and technologies and global change-related educational resources on behalf of various US federal agencies involved in the project
• Ecosystems and global change
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. The primary global-change data and information analysis center for the US Department of Energy (DOE), including a huge collection on CO2 emission (by country and per capita); CO2 concentrations; long-term climate trends; the effects of elevated CO2 on vegetation; and the vulnerability of coastal areas to rising sea levels.
• Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment
• Climate Change Research Center of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
• Indian Centre for Science and Environment provides perspective of developing nations on climate issues