Protocol amending the 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds : message from the President of the United States transmitting a protocol between the United States and Canada amending the 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory birds in Canada and the United States, with related exchange of notes, signed at Washington on December 14, 1995 (open access)

Protocol amending the 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds : message from the President of the United States transmitting a protocol between the United States and Canada amending the 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory birds in Canada and the United States, with related exchange of notes, signed at Washington on December 14, 1995

This treaty is an amendment between the United States and Canada to the statute making it unlawful to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell certain birds. The statute does not discriminate between live or dead birds and also grants full protection to any bird parts including feathers, eggs and nests.
Date: 1996
Creator: United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) & Christopher, Warren
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inter-American Convention on Sea Turtles (open access)

Inter-American Convention on Sea Turtles

This treaty provides the legal framework for member countries in the Americas and the Caribbean to take actions for the benefit of sea turtles
Date: 1998
Creator: United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) & Albright, Madeleine Korbel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convention concerning migratory fish stock in the Pacific Ocean : message from the President of the United States transmitting Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, with annexes ("WCPF Convention"), which was adopted at Honolulu on September 5, 2000, by the Multilateral High Level Conference on the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (open access)
Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (open access)

Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling

On May 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent,nonpartisan entity, directed to provide a thorough analysis and impartial judgment. The President charged the Commission to determine the causes of the disaster, and to improve the country’s ability to respond to spills, and to recommend reforms to make offshore energy production safer. This report is the result of an intense six-month effort to fulfill the President’s charge. The Commission’s report offers the President, policymakers, industry, and the American people the fullest account available of the largest oil spill in U.S history: the context for the well itself, how the explosion and spill happened, and how industry and government scrambled to respond to an unprecedented emergency.
Date: January 2011
Creator: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (U.S.)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 6, Number 2, 2008 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 6, Number 2, 2008

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to sustainable food production and consumption.
Date: 2008
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 2010 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 8, Number 1, 2010

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to biodiversity and threatened habitats.
Date: 2010
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on Climate Security (open access)

Report on Climate Security

This document was the result of a study of how the concept of climate security should be understood and utilized in Japan, as well as how the concept can contribute to advancing future climate policy.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Japan. Kankyōshō.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2007 (open access)

Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2007

This Fiscal Year 2007 edition of Our Changing Planet describes a wide range of new and emerging observational capabilities which, combined with the Climate Change Science Program’s analytical work, lead to advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change. The report highlights progress in exploring the uses and limitations of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability, and documents activities to promote cooperation between the U.S. scientific community and its worldwide counterparts.
Date: November 2006
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States (open access)

Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States

This national scientific assessment integrates and interprets the findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and synthesizes findings from previous assessments, including reports and products by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It analyzes current natural and human-induced trends in global change, and projects future trends impacting the natural environment, agriculture, water resources, social systems, energy production and use, transportation, and human health. It is intended to help inform discussion of the relevant issues by decisionmakers, stakeholders, and the public. As such, this report addresses the requirements for assessment in the Global Change Research Act of 1990.1
Date: May 2008
Creator: Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. National Science and Technology Council.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons from PPP2000: Living with Earth's Extremes-Report from the PPP2000 Working Group to the Office of Science and Technology Policy Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction (open access)

Lessons from PPP2000: Living with Earth's Extremes-Report from the PPP2000 Working Group to the Office of Science and Technology Policy Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction

This book is a series of reports summarizing discussions and recommendations from a series of forums about strategies to deal with natural disaster. The focus is on changing human behavior and development in order to coexist with natural phenomena rather than trying to control natural phenomena.
Date: September 2001
Creator: Cohn, Timothy A.; Gohn, Kathleen K. & Hooke, William H.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment (open access)

UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment

This publication provides an overview of global and regional environmental issues policy decisions during 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Drylands to the Market: Policy Opportunities and Challenges in Dryland Areas of East Africa. (open access)

From the Drylands to the Market: Policy Opportunities and Challenges in Dryland Areas of East Africa.

This paper presents a summary of the challenges, opportunities and policies adopted by the three East African countries –Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania- to address the production and marketing of goods and services from drylands. It also provides recommendations on policy that could enhance production and marketing of relevant products. It is based on three national policy studies undertaken in the three countries, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Date: 2008
Creator: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: A State of Knowledge Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program (open access)

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: A State of Knowledge Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program

This book is the most comprehensive report to date on the wide range of impacts of climate change in the United States. It is written in plain language to better inform members of the public and policymakers. The report finds that global warming is unequivocal, primarily human-induced, and its impacts are already apparent in transportation, agriculture, health, and water and energy supplies. These impacts are expected to grow with continued climate change - the higher the levels of greenhouse gas emissions, the greater the impacts. The report illustrates how these impacts can be kept to a minimum if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. The choices we make now will determine the severity of climate change impacts in the future. This book will help citizens, business leaders, and policymakers at all levels to make informed decisions about responding to climate change and its impacts. Likely to set the policy agenda across the US for the next few years Features examples of actions currently being pursued in various regions to address climate change. Summarizes in one place the current and projected affects of climate change in the United States
Date: 2009
Creator: Karl, Thomas R.; Melillo, Jerry M.; Peterson, Thomas C. & Hassol, Susan Joy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 2, 2005 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 2, 2005

Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about international cooperation to reduce or end poverty and the promotion of sustainable development.
Date: 2005
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development (open access)

Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development

This report contains the proceedings of a Roundtable of panelists speaking on the connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity, and on how sustainable solutions for development will benefit both types of diversity.
Date: January 2003
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2006 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2006

Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about biodiversity.
Date: 2006
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 2, Number 1, 2004 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 2, Number 1, 2004

Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about the relationship between international sports and the environment.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, Volume 14, Number 3, 2004 (open access)

Our Planet, Volume 14, Number 3, 2004

Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to energy.
Date: 2004
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005

Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about transportation, urban planning, waste management, and ecology.
Date: 2005
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, Volume 15, Number 3, 2005 (open access)

Our Planet, Volume 15, Number 3, 2005

Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to problems with enforcing laws and regulations that protect the environment and safeguard health and sanitation.
Date: 2005
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change, Report to Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. (open access)

Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change, Report to Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.

The final report from an advisory panel of 15 scientists and industry experts finding that humans are responsible for climate warming and that Utah is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions per capita than the rest of the nation. It makes about 70 recommendations for fighting global warming including: developing significant amounts of renewable energy with incentives and tax credits, encouraging the capture and disposal of carbon dioxide, improving efficiency at power plants, implementing an aggressive mass-transit strategy, and preserving open space and agricultural land and protecting forests. The report, however, does not include specific policy recommendations or rules to implement action.
Date: October 2007
Creator: Utah. Governor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report (open access)

United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report

The 2009 UNEP annual report provides detailed information about various UNEP activities during the year of 2009, including analysis of the outcome of the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference. The report emphasizes the need to mobilize behind climate action in 2009 and to continue to ensure that environmental sustainability is recognized both as a legitmate goal in itself and as a means to achieving all other development objectives including the Millennium Development Goals.
Date: February 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan (open access)

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Strategic Plan, which 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. According to the DOE, the CCTP is the technology component of a comprehensive U.S. strategy introduced by President George W. Bush in 2002 to combat climate change that includes measures to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions through voluntary, incentive-based, and mandatory partnerships; advance climate change science; spur clean energy technology development and deployment; and promote international collaboration.
Date: September 2006
Creator: The U.S. Climate Change Technology Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 1, 2009 (open access)

Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 7, Number 1, 2009

Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is about environmental policies and practices that reduce one's carbon footprint, and protect threatened species.
Date: June 30, 2010
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library