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• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) formed this group to analyse the available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
  
  
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the initial international treaty has a web site that covers climate change negotiations
  
  
• From OneWorld.net:
  • Climate Change Campaign/news
  • In Depth Climate Change coverage
  
  
• From Delhi-based Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE):
  • Climate Change section provides a vast array of articles and analysis with viewpoints from the South.
  • Equity Watch; A Climate News Letter from the South. This section, is a sub-section of their climate change section, providing articles and perspectives from developing countries concerning equity and equal rights to the atmosphere.
  
  
• CorpWatch has a Climate Justice Initiative section and looks at social, political and other issues surrounding issues of climate change and action.
  
  
• This report describes, quite nicely, the world politics affecting decisive action on climate change. Although written in a somewhat humorous manner, it is written as a lose analogy of the climate change crisis and global negotiations that have continued for ten years without cutting any greenhouse gases. It may seem just a tiny bit on the long side, but it is certainly worth reading.
  
  
• Environment News Network provides coverage on climate change issues.
  
  
• Climate Change section from the United Nations' Environment Programme.
  
  
• The British science magazine, New Scientist, has a good section devoted to Global Warming. They have also got a link to other online resources which may be of interest.
  
  
• The Union of Concerned Scientists have a Section on Global Warming. There are many resources available from their site.
  
  
• NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) is a US, non-profit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Many subject areas are covered here.
  
  
• The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment is a one-stop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmopsheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion.
  
  
• Renewable Energy Resources web site. The Discussion and Educational Resource for Renewable, Sustainable Home Built Energy Production. A DIY Guide for building your own Solar, PV, Hydro, Biofuel (Biodiesel, Ethanol, Etc.) Steam, and other Renewable Energy Solutions. You will find many links here.
  
  
• Climate Independent Media Center offers non-corporate grassroots coverage of the problems related to climate change and the political action that is needed to deal with them.
  
  
• "Greenhouse Market Mania" from Corporate Europe Observatory is a critical report on the business interests affecting the UN climate talks.
  
  
• Just a Lot of Hot Air? is a report from PANOS looking at the various issues for developing and industrialized countries alike.
  
  
• The Climate Change Campaign site from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
  
  
• The Guardian newspaper from UK, has a Special Report on Climate Change with updated news coverage, background information, etc.
  
  
• These articles from the Third World Network provide a very critical look at the role of big business and of countries such as the United States:
  • Polluter nations torpedo UN climate change treaty
  • Climate change talks almost hijacked
  • Global warming worse than feared
  • The Kyoto loopholes
  • Greenhouse market mania
  • Business as usual
  • A changing climate for disease and death
  • Contraction and convergence
  • Peoples' defence of climate stability
  • Battling on the fence line
  
  
• Covering The Planet: Environmentalism In A Media World from the MediaChannel.org looks at how environment issues are covered by the media (or not) around the world. This is a link to a large collection of media related articles.

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