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Climate Change

Politics

EU-Brochure: EU action about climate change - Leading global action to 2020 and beyond
A brochure that explains the EU's proposals for global action as well as the measures the Union itself is taking.

EU-Brochure: Working with developing countries to tackle climate change
The brochure in the EU action on climate change series provides an overview of the many ways in which the EU is assisting developing countries in adapting to the negative effects of climate change and mitigating its causes, with a special focus on cooperation with developing countries in Asia.

EU-Brochure: Research and development to fight climate change

EU Brochure: Adapting to climate change

Paris Declaration On Broadcast Media & Climate Change
Declaration as a result of the of the UNESCO International Conference on Broadcast Media & Climate Change (Paris, 4th & 5th September 2009)

Peer: Climate Policy Integration, Coherence and Governance (2009)
Report about a project that aims at an increased understanding of the features and conditions for better integrated and more coherent climate governance processes.

Summary for Politicmakers - The Physical Science Basis by IPCC
A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The European Climate Change Programme
Measures and actions to fight Climate Change, initiated by the European Union.

UNEP: Kick the Habit
UN Guide to Climate Neutrality.

Science/Libraries

Tyndall Centre Publications 
Source of high quality and integrated climate-change research.

Climate 2009 - Climate Change Studies Library
A one-stop site where information on studies and reports are available and can be downloaded. The site will facilitate access to information on research and studies on climate change and allows contacts with the agencies performing such studies, hence increasing accessibility and know-how transfer.

UNEP: Climate Change Science Compendium (2009)
A review of some 400 major scientific contributions to our understanding of Earth Systems and climate that have been released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years, since the close of research for consideration by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Human Development Report 2007/2008 - Fighting climate change:
Human solidarity in a divided world

International Alliance of Research Universities: Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions (Congress in Copenhagen 10 - 12 March 2009)

Scientific Facts on Climate Change

Why and how do scientists study climate change in the Arctic? What are the Arctic climate indices?
Some important research concepts used by scientists to study climate change.

Media
 
Bird, Eleanor; Lutz, Richard; Warwick, Christine: Media as partners in education for sustainable devolpment: a training kit. (2008) (UNESCO Series on Journalism Education)
  
Peters, Hans Peter and Heinrichs, Harald: Legitimizing Climate Policy: The „Risk Construct" of Global Climate Change in the German Mass Media (2008)