Directory of Policy Resources

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Sites devoted to the relation of official policies to climate change. May include governmental studies and initiatives, public-private collaborations, and non-official sites reporting the effects of policy.

Resources in This Category

• Austrian Council on Climate Change

  http://www.accc.gv.at/
  Interdisciplinary working group which aims to identify and evaluate measures relating to the prevention of global climate change. English version accessed from left hand menu.

• Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

  http://www.c2es.org/
  Supports a cooperative approach and brings critical scientific, economic and technological expertise to the global debate on climate change.

• Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting

  http://climate.dot.gov/
  U.S. Department of Transportation initiative. Fosters awareness of the potential links between transportation and global climate change, and formulates policies to deal with the challenges of these links.

• Choose Climate

  http://www.chooseclimate.org/
  Interactive Java applet shows effects of policy on climate. Parameters include various per-capita emissions.

• Climate Institute

  http://www.climate.org/
  This organization of scientists and policy leaders concerned with climate change and the ozone layer has organized conferences, symposia, and ministerial briefings in thirty nations since 1997, with link to Powerpoint presentation from 2005 conference on endangered islands.

• Climate Solutions

  http://www.climatesolutions.org/
  Non-profit organization based in Olympia, Washington, US, from the 1998 merger of Atmosphere Alliance with the Energy Outreach Center, concerned with practical solutions to climate change.

• Common Resources

  http://common-resources.org/
  An online forum designed to provide the news media, legislators, opinion leaders, and the interested public with analysis and commentary on U.S. and global policy initiatives related to climate change.

• Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st Century

  http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk/
  To analyse the nature of humankind's current crisis. Bringing together diverse academic and independent researchers in an independent research-based centre. Current programmes; climate change and violence, climate change and public opinion.

• Global Change Impact Studies Centre

  http://www.gcisc.org.pk/
  Details about objectives, manpower, news and events, and publications.

• Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

  http://globalchange.mit.edu/
  Provides links to publications, personnel, forums, sponsor details, job openings and contact information. Based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

• Linkages - Climate and Atmosphere

  http://www.iisd.ca/process/climate_atm.htm
  From the Canada-based International Institute for Sustainable Development Reporting Services team. Features media reports, list of key publications, and coverage of a variety of climate change meetings, including daily highlights and photos.

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

  https://www.pik-potsdam.de/
  Interdisplinary studies in the natural and social sciences, intended to provide a basis for advising policy makers on measures to avoid the causes, mitigate the effects, and adapt to the unavoidable consequences of global change.

• Replacing fossil fuels: the scale of the problem

  http://www.abelard.org/briefings/replacing_fossil_fuels.htm
  Discussion about ways to replace fossil fuels. Information about wind energy, energy storage and energy efficiency is also there.

• Resources for the Future Library: Climate

  http://www.rff.org/Research_Topics/Pages/Climate.aspx
  RFF is an NGO based in the U.S. Emphasis on policy studies.

• Responding to Climate Change

  http://www.rtcc.org/
  A practical guide to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol. Provides case studies on greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation (best accessed using Acrobat).

• The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

  http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/
  UK-based interdisciplinary center seeks to engage with stakeholders and to explore and develop new technologies, lifestyles, economic instruments and regulatory mechanisms that will allow climate change to be managed.

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

  http://unfccc.int/
  Official site for UN Climate Secretariat: Kyoto protocol, COP4 in Buenos Aires, and world emissions data.

• US Department of State: Global Climate Change

  http://www.state.gov/e/oes/climate/index.htm
  Details of official communication on global climate change.

• World Bank - Global Climate Change

  http://go.worldbank.org/W13H8ZXSD1
  Information on World Bank activities in relation to climate change, including energy strategy and the Prototype Carbon Fund.

• World Resources Institute: Climate

  http://www.wri.org/our-work/topics/climate
  Identifies opportunities to reduce the risk of global climate change in ways that drive sustainable economic development worldwide.

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