Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary

E-publications

Global Warming and Vietnam
Global Warming and Vietnam, from Tiempo, is a set of fact sheets containing information about the implications of climate change for Vietnam, covering basic science, impacts and policy responses. Published 1993

2008 Carbon Sequestration Atlas II of the United States and Canada - Version 2
The Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, from the United States Department of Energy, documents more than 3,500 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide storage potential in oil and gas reservoirs, coal seams, and saline formations. It also describes on-going field activities. Published November 2008

50by50 Report
The 50by50 Report, from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, calls for a 50 per cent fuel economy improvement worldwide by 2050. Published March 2009

A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Ecosystem Resilience in Ten African Countries
A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Ecosystem Resilience in Ten African Countries, from Helios International, is a preliminary attempt to identify points of vulnerability as they relate to climate change-related events and sketch out what changes are needed, both politically and programmatically, to increase resilience. Published 2007

Abiotic Disturbances and Their Influence on Forest Health
Abiotic Disturbances and Their Influence on Forest Health, from the Food and Agriculture Organization, warns that extreme weather events and natural disasters will pose an increasing threat to the world's forests in coming years, requiring heightened cooperation between regions and countries. Published August 2011

Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to Climate Change, from Oxfam, discusses what's needed in poor countries and who should pay. Published May 2007

Africa Environment Outlook-2
Africa Environment Outlook-2, from the United Nations Environment Programme, highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, enhancing human well-being, as well as its potential to achieve tremendous progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Published June 2006

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, from the United Nations Environment Programme, provides graphic images of environmental trends across the African continent. Additional electronic resources, including data in Google Earth are available. Published June 2008

Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen
Agriculture and Climate Change, from the International Food Policy Research Institute, suggests negotiating outcomes for both mitigation and adaptation funding that will support climate change goals while enhancing the well-being of people who manage and depend on agriculture, especially in the developing world. Published March 2009

Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment
Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment, from the British Antarctic Survey, synthesizes the present knowledge on the past and possible future changes in the physical environment of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and their impact on the biota. Published November 2009

Arctic Report Card
The Arctic Report Card, from NOAA, tracks recent environmental changes throughout the Arctic. Published annually

Asian Water Development Outlook 2007
Asian Water Development Outlook 2007, from the Asian Development Bank, argues that developing Asian countries should not experience a water crisis in the future - there is now enough knowledge, technology, and expertise available in the region to solve its existing and future water problems. If some Asian countries face a crisis in the future, inadequate or inappropriate water governance, not physical scarcity of water, will be the likely reason. Published November 2007

Assessing Biofuels
Assessing Biofuels, from UNEP, recommends new planning and management approaches to balance the beneficial effects of the production of biofuels with their environmental and social consequences. Published 2010

At Loggerheads? Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, and Environment in the Tropical Forests
At Loggerheads?, from the World Bank, applies a critical lens to the complicated relationships between agriculture, poverty and the environment in tropical forests. Published October 2006

At the Desert's Edge
At the Desert's Edge, from Panos, explores the culture, history and environment of eight countries in Africa's Sahel region through the memories and recollections of its people. Published 1992

Atlas of Our Changing Environment
The Atlas of Our Changing Environment, published by UNEP, provides a graphic view of environmental trends around the world. Additional electronic resources, including data in Google Earth are available. Published June 2005

Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade
On efficiency grounds, the economics community has tended to emphasize price-based policies to address climate change - such as taxes or a "safety valve" price ceiling for cap-and-trade - while environmental advocates have sought a more clear, quantitative limit on emissions. This working paper presents a simple modification to the idea of a safety valve: a quantitative limit called an "allowance reserve" which may bridge the gap between these competing interests and potentially improve efficiency relative to tax or other price-based policies. Published August 2008

Bangkok Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009 (4.1MB download)
The Bangkok Assessment Report on Climate Change, from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, attempts to explain why and how climate change is affecting Bangkok, while giving some idea of the likely trends that may be expected and what action will have to be taken in order to make the predicted outcomes less severe. Published 2009

Blue Carbon - The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon
Blue Carbon, from GRID-Arendal and UNEP, highlights the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems in maintaining our climate. It aims to assist policy makers to mainstream an oceans agenda into national and international climate change initiatives. Various electronic resources can be downloaded as well as the full report. Published October 2009

Building Biodiversity Business
Building Biodiversity Business, from Shell and IUCN, argues that there is a need to develop new business models and market mechanisms for biodiversity conservation and to persuade the public and policy makers that biodiversity (or component ecosystem services) can be conserved on a commercial basis. Published March 2008

Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities
Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities, from UNEP, says many opportunities exist for governments, industry and consumers to take appropriate actions during the life span of buildings that will help mitigate the impacts of global warming. Published March 2007

Challenges to International Waters: Regional Assessments in a Global Perspective
Challenges to International Waters, from the Global International Waters Assessment, summarizes the major transboundary concerns and their environmental and socio-economic impacts. It identifies the root causes and draws policy relevant conclusions and outlines knowledge gaps which impede the sustainable management of international waters. The regional reports are also available for download. Published February 2006

Charting our Water Future
Charting our Water Future, from the 2030 Water Resources Group, shows that, while meeting competing future demands for water will be a considerable challenge, it is entirely possible to close the growing gap between water supply and demand. Published November 2009

Climate Change and Development Links
Climate Change and Development Links, from the International Institute for Environment and Development, describes the independent evolution of climate change and development discourses, and provides some explanation as to why the two fields have operated largely independently from one another. Recent initiatives to strengthen links between the climate change and development communities are also described. Published May 2006

Climate Change and Food Security in Pacific Island Countries
Climate Change and Food Security in Pacific Island Countries, from FAO and SPREP, assesses the implications of climate change for food security in the Pacific region. Published December 2008

Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses
Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses, from the World Health Organization, seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector. Published 2003

Climate Change and Nuclear Power
Climate Change and Nuclear Power, from the International Atomic Energy Agency, concludes that the best chance for sustainable development lies in allowing all energy supply options, including nuclear power, to compete, improve and contribute on a level playing field directly on the basis of cost-effectiveness, environmental protection and safety. Published November 2000

Climate Change in the Pacific
Climate Change in the Pacific, from CSIRO, is a peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the climate of the western Pacific region.

Climate Change Reconsidered
Climate Change Reconsidered, from the Heartland Institute, presents a detailed rebuttal of the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Climate Change Threat to Pacific Ocean Mangroves
Climate Change Threat to Pacific Ocean Mangroves, from the United Nations Environment Programme, defines the potential impact on this valuable ecosystem, as well as current pressures, and options for sustainable management. Published July 2006

Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and the Future of the World's Coral Reefs
Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and the Future of the World's Coral Reefs, from Greenpeace, concludes that if climate change is not stopped, coral bleaching is set to steadily increase in frequency and intensity all over the world until it occurs annually by 2030 - 2070. It was prepared by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Coral Reef Research Institute.

Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions - Synthesis Report
Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions - Synthesis Report, from the University of Copenhagen, summarizes the key messages of a scientific congress held in Copenhagen from 10-12th March 2009 to bring together recent understanding of the impacts of human influence on the climate and the response options and approaches that are available to tackle this issue. Published June 2009

Climate Change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
Climate Change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation , from the International Food Policy Research Institute, quantifies the impact of climate change on agriculture, assesses the consequences for food security and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being, particularly for those most vulnerable. Published October 2009

Climate Change: Potential Effects on Human Health in New Zealand
Climate Change: Potential Effects on Human Health in New Zealand, from the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, considers the implications of climate change for human health in New Zealand. Published September 2001

Climate Community: Publications
UNDP's Climate Community website maintains a searchable database of e-publications on a range of climate topics.

Climate Ready Estuaries Program Synthesis of Adaptation Options for Coastal Areas (1.2MB download)
Climate Ready Estuaries Program Synthesis of Adaptation Options for Coastal Areas, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, provides a brief introduction to key physical impacts of climate change on estuaries and a review of on-the-ground adaptation options available to coastal managers to reduce their systems' vulnerability to climate change impacts. Published January 2009

Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook
The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook, from CARE, provides a methodology aimed at improving understanding of the implications of climate change for lives and livelihoods. By combining local knowledge with scientific climate information, the process builds people's understanding about climate risks and adaptation strategies. Published June 2009

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights
Climate Wrongs and Human Rights, from Oxfam, argues that the industrialized nations should base their climate policies on existing international human rights principles and stop using economic excuses to avoid their responsibilities.

Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions is the 2007 report from the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA). The NECIA is a collaborative effort between the Union of Concerned Scientists and a team of independent experts using state-of-the-art tools to assess how global warming will affect the northeastern United States.

Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable
Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable, from the United Nations Foundation and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, outlines the best measures for mitigating and adapting to global warming.

Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching
Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching, from the World Conservation Union and the Nature Conservancy, shows that the fate of corals may not yet be sealed. By fighting other stress factors such as pollution or overfishing impacting on coral reefs, reefs will be able to better adapt to climate change impacts. Published October 2006

Crisis or Opportunity: Climate Change and Thailand
Crisis or Opportunity: Climate Change and Thailand, from Greenpeace, gathers information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change together with studies conducted in Thailand in order to enhance the understanding and awareness of climate change impacts among the local people. Published July 2006

Dealing with Climate Change
LEISA Magazine, volume 24 Issue 4, focuses on dealing with climate change and includes a series of articles on adaptation in the developing world. Published December 2008

Desertification and the International Policy Imperative (3.4MB download)
Desertification and the International Policy Imperative, from UNU-INWEH, documents the proceedings of an international assessment of the desertification problem. Published June 2007

Domestic Tradable Quotas:
Domestic Tradable Quotas (0.7MB download), from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, discusses an emissions trading scheme for individuals intended to involve the public in carbon reduction. Published December 2005

Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action
Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action, from the National Forum for Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment, lays out a number of recommendations as to how concepts of sustainability can be built into educational programmes. Published 1996

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Considerations for On-road Transport in Asia
Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Considerations for On-road Transport in Asia is a contribution to the development, by the Asian Development Bank, of a policy framework to guide investments and address energy efficiency and climate change in the transport sector in Asia. Published May 2006

Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, from ESCAP, argues that the nations of the region will need to take on a broad range of measures, including improving energy efficiency, rationalizing pricing and taxation, improving governance and diversifying supply, in particular, through alternative and renewable resources. Appropriate legal frameworks, regulatory environments and systems for pricing and taxation, along with fair and transparent processes that will encourage public-private partnerships for developing infrastructure, are also necessary. Ecological and social implications must be considered. Published April 2008

Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index, from Yale University and Columbia University, identifies broadly-accepted targets for environmental performance and measures how close each country comes to these goals. Published annually

Extinction - It's Not Just for Polar Bears
Extinction - It's Not Just for Polar Bears, from the Center for Biological Diversity and Care for the Wild International, details the threat to Arctic wildlife posed by climate change and sea-ice loss. Published September 2010

Facing an Uncertain Future
Facing an Uncertain Future, from CIFOR, presents the case for a dual agenda to enhance the role of forests in adaptation: assisting forests to weather the coming storm of climate change, and managing forests in ways that enable forest-dependent peoples and society in general to cope with the coming changes. Published December 2008

Food Security, Farming and Climate Change to 2050
Food Security, Farming and Climate Change to 2050, from the International Food Policy Research Institute, assesses how serious the danger to food security might be and suggests some steps policymakers can take to remedy the situation. Published December 2010

Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change (6.0MB download)
Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change, from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, reviews the concepts of ecosystem resilience, resistance, and stability in forests and their relationship to biodiversity, with particular reference to climate change. Published October 2009

Forget Nuclear
Forget Nuclear, from the Rocky Mountain Institute, compares the cost, climate protection potential, reliability, financial risk, market success, deployment speed, and energy contribution of new nuclear power with those of its low- or no-carbon competitors. Published Spring 2008

Global Burden of Disease from Solar Ultraviolet Radiation
Global Burden of Disease from Solar Ultraviolet Radiation, from the World health Organization, quantifies the risks associated with increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The information presented forms a knowledge base for the prevention of adverse effects of UV exposure that is achievable with known and accessible interventions. Published July 2006

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, from United States Global Change Research Program, summarizes the science and the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future.

Global Deserts Outlook
The Global Deserts Outlook, from the United Nations Environment Programme, presents a panorama of the environmental status of the world's deserts: their location and extent, uniqueness and vulnerability, biodiversity and natural resources. Published June 2006

Global Environment Outlook
Global Environment Outlook (GEO), from the United Nations, is an annual report on environment, development and human well-being.

Global Hunger Index
The World Hunger Index, from the International Food Policy Research Institute, shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global Global Hunger Index has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 value. Published October 2009

Global Outlook for Ice and Snow
Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, from UNEP, reports on future prospects for the world's snow and ice cover. Published June 2007

Global Survey of Early Warning Systems
The Global Survey of Early Warning Systems is an assessment of capacities, gaps and opportunities towards building a comprehensive global early warning system for all natural hazards. It was prepared at the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Published September 2006

Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World
Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, from UNEP, gathers data on employment in different sectors - renewable energy, energy efficiency in buildings, sustainable transportation and organic agriculture - and draws conclusions and recommendations for policy makers, business and industry, workers and trade unions in the context of the transition towards a low-carbon economy. Published October 2008

Growing Together in a Changing Climate: The United Nations, Young People, and Climate Change
Growing Together in a Changing Climate: The United Nations, Young People, and Climate Change, from the United Nations, contains information on some of the many climate change initiatives - projects, campaigns, educational tools, websites and publications - produced by the United Nations and young people, independently or in partnership. Published December 2009

Health and Climate Change
Health and Climate Change, from the Lancet, makes a strong case for linking climate and health goals and provides a quantitative underpinning for this important health message. Published November 2009

Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security (0.7MB download)
In Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security, from the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Alan Dupont and Graeme Pearman detail the international security consequences of climate change, especially for the Asia-Pacific sector. Published June 2006

Heliosthana: a Mediterranean Sustainable Energy Country
Heliosthana: a Mediterranean Sustainable Energy Country, from WWF and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, is a how-to guide for a safe clean energy future, based around the virtual Mediterranean nation of Heliosthana. Published May 2010

How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy
How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy, from Chatham House, argues that climate change is likely to cause international legal disputes, disrupt access to vital resources, and damage critical infrastructure. Maritime boundaries are particularly susceptible to re-evaluation as a result of climate change; uncertainties may increase hostilities related to borders. Published June 2007

How to Save the Climate (0.7MB download)
How to Save the Climate, from Greenpeace, provides a concise guide to actions everybody can take to protect global climate.

Human Development Reports
The Human Development Reports, from UNDP, frame debates on some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The 2007 edition features climate change. Published annually

Human Health & Global Climate Change: A Review of Potential Impacts in the United States
Human Health & Global Climate Change, from the Pew Center, reports on potential climate effects on human health in the United States. Published December 2000

Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: A Risk Assessment 2002
Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: A Risk Assessment 2002, from the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, provides a risk assessment of various potential health impacts of climate change over the coming decades in Australia and, in specified instances, neighbouring populations of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Published April 2003

IFPRI Publications
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), whose mandate is to seek sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty, regularly publishes policy briefs on agricultural issues related to climate change.

Impact of Climate Change on the Arab Countries
Impact of Climate Change on the Arab Countries, from the Arab Forum for Environment and Development, is designed to provide information to governments, business, academia and the public about the impact of climate change on the Arab countries, and encourage concrete action to face the challenge. Published 2009

Impacto del Cambio Climático en la Comunidad Andina
Impact of Climate Change on the Andean Community (in Spanish), from the General Secretariat of the Andean Community, details the potential consequences of climate trends for the peoples of the Andean mountain countries of South America. Published May 2008

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers (9MB download)
Technical report, prepared by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, on the findings that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will cause changes in the ocean's carbonate chemistry system and affect fundamental biological and geochemical processes. Published July 2006

In Dead Water
In Dead Water, from the United Nations Environment Programme, defines climate change as the latest threat to the world's dwindling fish stocks. Published February 2008

International Energy Outlook
The International Energy Outlook, from the United States Energy Information Administration, presents the outlook for international energy markets through 2030. Published mid-year

Investment and Financial Flows Relevant to the Development of Effective and Appropriate International Response to Climate Change
Investment and Financial Flows, from the UNFCCC Secretariat, reviews and analyzes investment and financial flows relevant to the development of an effective and appropriate international response to climate change, with particular focus on developing country's needs, including their medium-to long-term requirements for investment and finance. Published August 2007

Joto Afrika
Joto Afrika, from the Arid Lands Information Network, is a series of printed briefings and online resources about adapting to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lighting the Way: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
Lighting the Way, from the InterAcademy Council, identifies a scientific consensus framework for directing global energy development. It lays out the science, technology and policy roadmap for developing energy resources to drive economic growth in both industrialized and developing countries while also securing climate protection and global development goals.

Livestock's Long Shadow
Livestock's Long Shadow, from the Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative, aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. Published November 2006

Living Planet Report
The Living Planet Report, from WWF, is a periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems. It describes the changing state of global biodiversity and the pressure on the biosphere arising from human consumption of natural resources. Published annually

Local Action for Biodiversity: a Series of Case Studies
Local Action for Biodiversity, from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, presents a set of case studies documenting action to improve biodiversity by cities around the world. Published May 2008

Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature
Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature, from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study, presents a synthesis of the approach, conclusions and recommendations of TEEB, a major international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity. Published October 2010

Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change
Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change, from the World Conservation Union and the Nature Conservancy, details a series of strategies and tools to fight the non-climatic stress factors to help mangroves survive in the face of climate change. Published October 2006

Managing our Coastal Zone in a Changing Climate: The Time to Act is Now
Managing our Coastal Zone in a Changing Climate: The Time to Act is Now, from the Australian House Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts, reports on an inquiry into Australia's coastal zone and makes recommendations to improve management of climate and environmental impacts.

Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa (2.2MB download)
Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa, from the International Livestock Research Institute, identifies areas that appear to be particularly prone to climate change impacts, considers the biophysical and social vulnerability of these and other areas and assesses the use of climate information in decisionmaking. Published May 2006

Marine and Coastal Ecosystems & Human Well-being: Synthesis
Marine and Coastal Ecosystems & Human Well-being: Synthesis, from UNEP, sets out to provide answers to a series of questions: What is the current status of marine and coastal ecosystems? What are the drivers of change in marine and coastal ecosystems? Why should we care if we lose marine and coastal ecosystems? What can be done to ensure that marine and coastal ecosystems and services are conserved? Published June 2006

Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Outlook Series
Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Outlook reports, from the United Nations Environment Programme, give a detailed overview of how rising pollution, the effects of climate change, over-fishing and other drivers of change are affecting marine life in 18 world regions. Published ongoing

Mega-Stress for Mega-Cities
Mega-Stress for Mega-Cities, from WWF, highlights the vulnerability of Asia's major coastal cities, with the goal of increasing regional awareness of the impacts of climate change, providing a starting point for further research and policy discussions and triggering action to protect people and nature in and around these cities in the future. Published November 2009

Megacities and Climate Change
Megacities and Climate Change, from LEAD International and the Urban Age Programme, explores the linkages between leadership and climate change in a rapidly urbanising world, and aims at promoting a discussion about the trends, challenges and solutions currently underway in different urban settings and in four key areas of urban development: water and sanitation; energy; land use and urban planning, and transport and urban mobility. Published January 2009

Mitigating Climate Change through Restoration and Management of Coastal Wetlands and Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities
Mitigating Climate Change through Restoration and Management of Coastal Wetlands and Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems, from the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and ESA PWA, explains the greenhouse gas dynamics of coastal wetlands and marine ecosystems and the importance of coastal wetland and near-shore marine ecosystem carbon pools for climate change mitigation. Published April 2011

Modern and Mobile
Modern and Mobile, from the International Institute for Environment and Development and SOS Sahel UK, is about the critical role mobile livestock keeping plays in the economic prosperity of Africa's drylands, including its potential in assisting adaptation to climate change. Published October 2009

Mongolia Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009
The Mongolia: Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009, from DEWAR, brings together the findings of climate change research in Mongolia for the first time, to raise awareness of decision makers and the general public so that they can develop appropriate responses to the challenges and threats. Published September 2009

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, from CNA, explores ways projected climate change is a threat multiplier in already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states. Relevant news links are provided. Published April 2007

New Directions in the Economics and Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change
New Directions in the Economics and Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change, from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, critiques the assumptions underlying most current integrated assessment and suggest ways that new and improved models could provide greater insights into climate policies. Published October 2000

Nuclear Power and Climate Change
In Nuclear Power and Climate Change, the Nuclear Energy Agency investigates the role that nuclear power could play in alleviating the risk of global climate change. The main objective of the study is to provide a quantitative basis for assessing the consequences for the nuclear sector and for the reduction of GHG emissions of alternative nuclear development paths.

Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change
Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change, from Friends of the Earth Australia, concludes that nuclear power is a dangerous and inefficient way to address climate change. It argues that policy makers should focus on the practical benefits provided by renewable energy and energy efficiency – safe, proven technologies available now. Published September 2005

Nuclear Power: Special Issue of Nuclear Monitor
Nuclear Power: No solution to climate change, from NIRS/WISE International, argues that, despite claims that nuclear energy is the most effective way to solve the climate problem, nuclear energy is neither effective nor viable, it is not a sustainable source and it causes devastating problems that humanity is not able to handle. Published February 2005

Older People and Climate Change: the Case for Better Engagement
Older People and Climate Change: the Case for Better Engagement, from the Stockholm Environment Institute, argues the case for better engagement of older people on climate change and on environmental issues in general. Published August 2010

Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits
Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits, from the Consultative Group for International Research in Agriculture, concludes that abatement costs of avoided deforestation could be more cost effective than other climate change mitigation activities. With the right policy incentives, there could be significant benefits to smallholder farmers, to ecosystems, and to the global climate. Published November 2007

Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility
Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility, from UNICEF UK, draws attention to the specific risks associated with climate change faced by children, who are more vulnerable and in no way responsible for their position. Published April 2008

Pacific Plan Online
Pacific Leaders have called for the serious challenges facing the countries of the Pacific to be met through sharing scarce resources and aligning policies to strengthen national capacities to support their people. The Pacific Plan aims to strengthen regional cooperation and integration as the main instrument for realizing this Pacific Vision.

Plan B
Plan B, from the Earth Policy Institute, details how to rescue a planet under stress by cutting carbon emissions 80 per cent by 2020. The Earth Policy Institute also publishes regular Eco-Economy Updates. Published July 2008

Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia
Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems, from the World Conservation Union, highlights the challenges faced by poor and often resource-dependent households across Asia. Published August 2006

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources
Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources, from the United States Climate Change Science Program, focuses on federally-managed land and water. Published June 2008

Preparing for a Sea Change
Preparing for a Sea Change - A Strategy to Cope with the Impacts of Global Warming on the State's Coastal and Marine Systems, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, is intended to provide guidelines for concrete, science-based action on the critical issues Florida faces in light of global warming and to stimulate informed debate for the preservation of the signature natural resources that make her unique. Published May 2008

Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting, from the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Agroforestry Centre, underlines the massive potential of rainwater harvesting in Africa

Reducing Vulnerability, Enhancing Resilience: The Importance of Adaptation Technologies for the Post-2012 Climate Agreement
Reducing Vulnerability, Enhancing Resilience, from CIDSE (Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité) and Caritas Internationalis, highlights the need for urgent enhanced action on adaptation technologies, which are key for adapting to climate change, reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development. Published June 2009

Renewables Global Status Report
The Renewables Global Status Report, from REN21, provides an integrated perspective on the global renewable energy situation. Published annually

Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change (2.2MB download)
The Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change, from the United Nations Development Programme, aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages between gender equality and climate change and their importance in relation to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Published November 2008

Rich Countries, Poor Water
Rich Countries, Poor Water, from WWF, warns that water crises, long seen as a problem of only the poorest, are increasingly affecting some of the world's wealthiest nations. Published August 2006

Rolling Easements (6.2MB download)
Rolling Easements, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, argues that future development of some low-lying coastal lands must be based on the premise that eventually the land must give way to the rising sea. It provides a primer on more than a dozen approaches for ensuring that wetlands and beaches can migrate inland, as people remove buildings, roads, and other structures from land as it becomes submerged. Published June 2011

Seeing People Through the Trees: Scaling Up Efforts to Advance Rights and Address Poverty, Conflict and Climate Change
Seeing People Through the Trees, from the Right and Resources Initiative, references past models of forest management to demonstrate the weaknesses in prior governance structures while emphasizing gaps and opportunities for the strategic involvement of the international community. Published July 2008

Sick Water? The central role of wastewater management in sustainable development
Sick Water?, from the United Nations, identifies the threats to human and ecological health of ineffective waterwater management and presents opportunities, where appropriate policy and management responses over the short and longer term can trigger employment, support livelihoods, boost public and ecosystem health and contribute to more intelligent water management. Website provides access to the full report and other resources. Published March 2010

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air
Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, documents ExxonMobil's disinformation campaign on global warming science. Published January 2007

Solar Generation 6
Solar Generation 6, from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and Greenpeace International, aims to provide a clear and understandable description of the current status of developing photovoltaic power generation. Published February 2011

Solar Generation V - 2008
Solar Generation V, from Greenpeace and the European Photovoltaic Association, reviews the latest developments in solar power generation. Published September 2008

Special Issue on Climate Justice
The Special Issue on Climate Justice, from the journal Environmental Justice, presents a series of articles on the implications for social equity and justice of the impact of climate change and of responses to the climate threat. Published January 2010

Special Report on the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
The Special Report on the Arctic Wildlife Refuge by Norman Chance discusses the debate over drilling for oil in this pristine habitat. Published November 2002

State of the Marine Environment: Trends and Processes (6.9MB download)
State of the Marine Environment: Trends and Processes, from the United Nations Environment Programme, gives a broad global perspective on land-based threats to the marine environment, providing regional and sometimes national examples. Related reports are available from the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities. Published October 2006

Stern Review
The Stern Review, which was commissioned by the British government, considers the economic impacts of future climate trends and the costs of taking action to avert the threat by reducing emissions and limiting impacts. Published October 2006

The Climate of Poverty
In The Climate of Poverty, British charity Christian Aid claims that a "staggering 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by the end of the century." Published May 2006

The Coral Triangle and Climate Change: Ecosystems, People and Societies At Risk (4.5MB download)
The Coral Triangle and Climate Change, from WWF Australia, describes possible futures for the Coral Triangle nations of Southeast Asia and Melanesia and recommends local and global actions. Published May 2009

The Corner House
The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by other organizations, on climate issues.

The Future Oceans - Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour
The Future Oceans - Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour, from the German advisory Council on Climate Change, argues that failure to check carbon emissions will have severe consequences for the world's oceans: continuing warming and ongoing acidification both pose threats. Published March 2006

The Greater Mekong and Climate Change
The Greater Mekong and Climate Change, from WWF, recommends three key adaptation strategies to reduce vulnerability across the region: the protection of regional ecosystems, a reduction in non-climate stresses such as unsustainable infrastructure and over extraction of natural resources, and the implementation of a regional climate change adaptation agreement. Published October 2009

The Greening of Water Law
Greening Water Law, from the United Nations Environment Programme, calls for greener laws to avert world water crisis.

The Impacts of Climate Change in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta
The Impacts of Climate Change in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, from Civic Exchange, provides broad-brush view of how climate change may affect the region. Published November 2006

The Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2006
The Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific, from the Asian Development Bank, highlights the region's achievements and exposes issues on which much work remains to be done. Published October 2006

The State of Food Insecurity in the World
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010, from the Food and Agriculture Organization, focuses on people living in a group of countries in which the incidence of hunger is particularly high and persistent, and which face particular challenges in meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets – namely countries in protracted crisis. Published October 2010

The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction
The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction, from the Center for Integrative Environmental Research, presents an overview of climate impacts on various economic sectors in the United States, organized by region. Published October 2007

The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions
The World Food Situation, from the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an assessment of global food supplies and prices. It concludes that business as usual could mean increased misery, especially for the world's poorest populations. A mix of policy actions that avoids damage and fosters positive responses is required. Published December 2007

Too Hot to Handle?
Too Hot to Handle?, from the Oxford Research Group, concludes that nuclear power still poses all of its traditional problems and cannot help with climate change. Published July 2007

Towards Food Sovereignty
Towards Food Sovereignty, from the International Institute for Environment and Development, is an online book with full colour photo illustrations and linked video and audio files. It describes the ecological basis of food and agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems and the policy reversals needed to democratize food systems. Published May 2008

Trade and Climate Change
Trade and Climate Change, from the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Trade Organization, examines the intersections between trade and climate change from four perspectives: the science of climate change; economics; multilateral efforts to tackle climate change; and national climate change policies and their effect on trade. Published June 2009

Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change (5MB download)
The Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the United Nations Development Programme, aims to meet the demand for improving skills in gender and climate change, and to build up a pool of trainers in different regions and countries. Published March 2009

UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series
The Bioenergy Issue Paper Series, from UNEP, covers various topics related to bioenergy, including land-use change, water, invasive species and stakeholder involvement. Published, 2010 onwards

UNEP Year Book
The UNEP Year Book, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme, is an annual report on the changing global environment. It was formerly titled the GEO Year Book.

United States Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan
The Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan, from the United States Department of Energy, details measures to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of new and advanced technologies that avoid, reduce, or capture and store greenhouse gas emissions. Published September 2006

Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke, from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, is a series of briefing documents, reviewing the latest available scientific research and evidence from those living on the front line of global warming. Alongside a global overview, regional reports cover Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States
Background paper prepared for the UNFCCC Expert Meeting on Adaptation for Small Island Developing States, held in Kingston, Jamaica, February 2007. Published February 2007

Warm Words (0.5MB download)
Warm Words, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, argues that the climate story needs to be told in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement. Published August 2006

Whatever the Weather
The media play an important role in stimulating discussion in developing countries. This report, from Panos, surveys attitudes of journalists towards the climate issue in a series of develo[ing countries. The results show that the media have a poor understanding of the climate change debate and express little interest in it. Published March 2006

World Bank: Climate Profiteer
World Bank: Climate Profiteer, from the Institute of Policy Studies, argues that the World Bank irresponsibly and recklessly continues to perpetuate the world's dependence on climate-altering fossil fuels while profiting from carbon trading. Published April 2008

World Economic and Social Survey 2009: Promoting Development, Saving the Planet
The World Economic and Social Survey 2009, from the United Nations, argues that an integrated approach based on the concept of sustainable development is urgently needed. It concludes that climate mitigation and adaptation efforts can move forward effectively only if they are part of a consistent development strategy built around a massive investment-led transformation along low-carbon, high-growth paths. Published September 2009

World Energy Outlook
World Energy Outlook, from the International Energy Agency, reviews current trends in global energy supply and demand. While the current report can only be purchased, reports from previous years can be downloaded at no charge. Published annually

World's Top Ten Rivers at Risk
World's Top Ten Rivers at Risk, from WWF, assesses the threats to the planet's major rivers. Published March 2007

Youth and Climate Change
Youth and Climate Change, from ICIMOD, is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Mountain Courier devoted to young people in mountain environments. Published November 2010

Autogenerated: 15 May 2015