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CCCC Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality (open access)

CCCC Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality

This book describes the importance of climate neutrality in order to reduce the impact of global warming. Climate neutrality requires reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and others.
Date: 2008
Creator: GRID-Arendal
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication discusses global environmental efforts, successes, and setbacks of 2004.
Date: 2005
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2006: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2006: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication describes major global environmental issues and policy decisions during 2006.
Date: 2006
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication is an overview of major global environmental issues and policy decisions during the course of 2007.
Date: 2007
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap to Sustainable Government Buildings (open access)

Roadmap to Sustainable Government Buildings

This document encourages governments to use LEED certifications in the construction of government buildings, and to promote LEED buildings in their jurisdictions. The document provides advice on how to promote and administer such projects.
Date: 2009
Creator: U.S. Green Building Council
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet draws information from the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report that describes how climate change affects coastal areas in the United States.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecoregion: Desert Arid (open access)

Ecoregion: Desert Arid

This brochure describes the effects of climate change in the desert and arid regions of the United States.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecoregion: Caribbean (open access)

Ecoregion: Caribbean

This document is part of a set of educational resources for educators to encourage climate literacy.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators (open access)

Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators

This is a lesson plan for grade levels 5-8 that guides educators through a lesson about coral reef ecology and how climate change affects the growth of coral reefs.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sea Surface Temperature and Coral Bleaching: Activities (open access)

Sea Surface Temperature and Coral Bleaching: Activities

This lesson plan provides educators with a lesson plan for grades 5-8 about coral reefs.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet describes climate change scenarios in the Great Plains region of the United States.
Date: 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change (open access)

The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change

The effects of global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are diverse and potentially very large, and probably constitute the most serious long-term environmental issue currently facing the world. This paper is prepared as task 1 of the project 'Modelling support for Future Actions - Benefits and Cost of Climate Change Policies and Measures', ENV.C.2/2004/0088, led by K.U.Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The paper provides a rapid review and analysis of the impacts and economic costs from climate change. The objective is to provide estimates of the benefits of climate change policy, i.e. from avoided impacts, for support to the Commission in considering the benefits and costs of mitigation efforts, and to support DG Environment in its report to the Spring Council 2005 and in future international negotiations on climate change.
Date: September 2005
Creator: Watkiss, Paul; Downing, Tom; Handley, Claire & Butterfield, Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet draws highlights for Alaska from the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate : Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate : Frequently Asked Questions

This brochure corresponds with the Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate Synthesis and Assessment Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. It highlights observed changes and likely projections in North American weather, and how changes in North American weather are likely to have an adverse economic effect.
Date: 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet describes climate change scenarios in Great Plains region of the United States.
Date: 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet describes climate change scenarios for islands of the United States.
Date: 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kyoto Protocol Target Achievement Plan (open access)

Kyoto Protocol Target Achievement Plan

Content of this document includes the basic direction of promotion of global warming countermeasures, the targets for control and removal of GHG, and the Japan's measures and policies to achieve the targets.
Date: March 28, 2008
Creator: Japan. The Global Warming Prevention Headquarters
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kyoto Protocol Implementation (open access)

Kyoto Protocol Implementation

This report analyze the impacts of linking JI and CDM to the future European Emission Allowance Trading System (ETSy). The result indicate that the volume of credits obtained through JI and CDM projects by the enlarged EU Emission Allowance Trading Scheme, as well as the magnitude of cost savings and allowance price impacts will crucially depend on how much competition there will be from EU Member States and other countries in JI and CDM credits.
Date: May 2003
Creator: Criqui, Patrick & Kitous, Alban
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate and Airborne Pollutants (open access)

Climate and Airborne Pollutants

This brochure provides an overview of how air pollutants have an impact on climate change.
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Establishing the Leakage Rates of Mobile Air Conditioners (open access)

Establishing the Leakage Rates of Mobile Air Conditioners

The purpose of the study is to - based on field measurements - determine the average annual leakage rate of HFC-134a from MACs in the European Union of a "second generation"1 air conditioner. From November 2002, to January 2003 300 measurements of HFC-134a leakage were carried out on air conditioners of cars up to seven years age. The measurements were carried out on vehicles of all EU relevant makes at 19 garages in Germany (Osnabrück), Portugal (Rio Maior) and Sweden (Helsingborg) reflecting different climatic conditions.
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Schwarz, Winfried & Harnisch, Jochen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allocation and Related Issues for Post-2012 Phases of the EU ETS (open access)

Allocation and Related Issues for Post-2012 Phases of the EU ETS

This report provides information on major design options related to the allocation of emissions allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (the EU ETS, or "the Scheme"). The report was developed to assist the European Commission in the context of the review of options for the EU ETS after 2012, during the third and subsequent phases of the Scheme. The report covers topics related to allocation alternatives as well as several other issues. All of the material contained here was developed initially as a set of briefing notes for the Commission in 2007. The topics covered in the report are divided into two major categories: (1) assessment criteria and other general features, including cap-setting; and (2) allocation alternatives and issues specifically related to allocation.
Date: October 22, 2007
Creator: Harrison, David, Jr.; Radov, Daniel & Klevnas, Per
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic Effects of EU-Wide Industry-Level Emission Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gases: Results from PRIMES Energy Systems Model (open access)

The Economic Effects of EU-Wide Industry-Level Emission Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gases: Results from PRIMES Energy Systems Model

In preparation of the Green Paper on greenhouse gas emissions trading within the European Union, the cost implications of EU-wide emissions trading carbon dioxide were estimated by E3-Lab with their PRIMES energy systems model. According to the report, if each EU member States implemented its target under the Burden sharing agreement individually, the total annual cost for the EU to reach the Kyoto target would be 9.0 billion Pound.
Date: May 2000
Creator: Capros, P. & Manzos, L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reanalysis and Attribution: Understanding How and Why Recent Climate Has Varied and Changed (open access)

Reanalysis and Attribution: Understanding How and Why Recent Climate Has Varied and Changed

This brochure discusses climate change, and scientific methods of making climate observations.
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ozone Layer: Ozone Depletion, Recovery in a Changing Climate, and the "World Avoided" (open access)

The Ozone Layer: Ozone Depletion, Recovery in a Changing Climate, and the "World Avoided"

This brochure describes the role of ozone in the stratosphere, and the effect it has on ultraviolet light, as well as how the Montreal Protocol and subsequent laws have affected ozone-depleting pollutants in the atmosphere.
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library