Action Alert Benefits Chart (open access)

Action Alert Benefits Chart

Overview of benefits of renewable energy systems.
Date: March 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agreement with Canada on Pacific hake/whiting : message from the President of the United States transmitting agreement between the government of the United States of America and the government of Canada on Pacific hake/whiting (the "agreement"), done at Seattle, November 21, 2003 (open access)

Agreement with Canada on Pacific hake/whiting : message from the President of the United States transmitting agreement between the government of the United States of America and the government of Canada on Pacific hake/whiting (the "agreement"), done at Seattle, November 21, 2003

This treaty establishes agreed percentage shares of the trans-boundary stock of Pacific hake, also known as Pacific whiting. It also creates a process through which U.S. and Canadian scientists and fisheries managers will recommend the total catch of Pacific hake each year.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush) & Powell, Colin L.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical Audit: Annex on emissions measurements and projections (open access)

Analytical Audit: Annex on emissions measurements and projections

This document reviews the United Kingdom's process of compiling historical greenhouse gas emissions, the process of estimating greenhouse gas emissions projections, the state of greenhouse gas emissions, and the implications of these findings on the United Kingdoms domestic targets. The paper is based on analysis prepared by the Office of Climate Change in the United Kingdom in order to facilitate discussion within government departments.
Date: unknown
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical Audit: Full Report (open access)

Analytical Audit: Full Report

This report presents an analytical audit on issues, progress and priorities in climate change by auditing current knowledge and policy choices to advise on progress and evidence; consolidating the existing analysis on UK and international climate change issues and our existing and projected emissions; presenting a balanced view of the trade-offs that Ministers face, based upon a consistent overview; and identifying priorities that Ministers may want to explore further.
Date: unknown
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical Audit: Scientific Annex (open access)

Analytical Audit: Scientific Annex

The introduction states that this report briefly summarizes the scientific orthodoxy on climate change, based on the findings of the world's most authoritative panel of climate experts. This paper is based on analysis prepared by the Office of Climate Change to facilitate discussion within government departments.
Date: unknown
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical Audit: Sectoral Annex (open access)

Analytical Audit: Sectoral Annex

The document is primarily a series of Venn diagrams demonstrating an analysis of carbon data and carbon policies in the United Kingdom According to a footnote, this paper is based on analysis prepared by the Office of Climate Change to facilitate discussion within government departments.
Date: unknown
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appliance Efficiency Standards (open access)

Appliance Efficiency Standards

This map shows states with energy efficiency standards for electrical appliances.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cities and Climate Change: Sustainable Urban Living (open access)

Cities and Climate Change: Sustainable Urban Living

The fact sheet highlights World Future Council's activities for raising awareness of the inter-linkages between climate change, air and water pollution and offering policy advice on sustainable urban living.
Date: unknown
Creator: World Future Council
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change and Ecosystems Summary of Recent Findings (open access)

Climate Change and Ecosystems Summary of Recent Findings

This fact sheet summarizes information from a recent assessment of possible adaptation options to protect climate-sensitive ecosystems in the United States.
Date: unknown
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: Science Compendium 2009 (open access)

Climate Change: Science Compendium 2009

This Climate Change Science Compendium, based on the wealth of peer-reviewed research published by researchers and institutions since 2006, has been compiled by UNEP in response to that request. The findings indicate that ever more rapid environmental change is underway with the pace and the scale of climate change accelerating, along with the confidence among researchers in their forecasts. The Compendium will provide important insights into the rapidly developing and fast moving realm of climate science so that the choices made by leaders in Copenhagen in December are informed by the best and the latest research available to the international community.
Date: May 2010
Creator: McMullen, Catherine P. & Jabbour, Jason
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
.A comprehensive mobility policy 15 years of transport planning in Ferrara (open access)

.A comprehensive mobility policy 15 years of transport planning in Ferrara

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Date: August 2010
Creator: Ing. Alberto Croce
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comprehensive Mobility Policy 15 Years of Transport Planning in Ferrara (open access)

A Comprehensive Mobility Policy 15 Years of Transport Planning in Ferrara

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Date: August 2010
Creator: Ing. Alberto Croce
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecological Forecasting: Agenda for the Future (open access)

Ecological Forecasting: Agenda for the Future

This brochure outlines the economic importance of ecological forecasting, as well as the importance of ecosystems for sustainable development, land management, and recreation.
Date: unknown
Creator: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Ecological Systems.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eliasch Report: Carbon absorption and storage (open access)

Eliasch Report: Carbon absorption and storage

This report provides details about carbon sequestration in the wood and soils of different types of forest (tropical, boreal, temperate) and states the policy implications that apply to the energy and forestry sectors. The report includes recommendations for the relationship between carbon sequestration and sustainable forestry.
Date: unknown
Creator: Franco, Miguel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Agents Control Act (open access)

Environmental Agents Control Act

The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) passed this law to protect the environment and human health from harm by toxic chemicals or microbial preparations, including pesticides, fungicides, as well as certain synthetic chemicals.
Date: unknown
Creator: China (Republic : 1949- ). Huan jing bao hu shu.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Impact Assessment in Japan (open access)

Environmental Impact Assessment in Japan

This document introduces the definition of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the EIA System in Japan, Japanese EIA Law and the Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Date: unknown
Creator: Japan. Kankyōshō.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finacial Institutions Taking Action on Climate Change (open access)

Finacial Institutions Taking Action on Climate Change

This report details finance sector leadership actions and their contribution to solving the climate change challenge across the following six areas: 1. Low carbon and energy efficiency finance and investing, 2. Emissions reducing finance and investing, 3. Adaptation finance and investing, 4. Measurement and transparency, 5. Engagement with companies, 6. Engagement with policy makers.
Date: December 8, 2014
Creator: World Bank Group
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A first cost benefit analysis of action to reduce deforestation (open access)

A first cost benefit analysis of action to reduce deforestation

This paper assesses the validity of the claim that curbing deforestation is a highly cost-effective way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hope, Chris & Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freshwater Under Threat: South Asia (open access)

Freshwater Under Threat: South Asia

This report focuses on three major South Asian river basins: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin, the Helmand River Basin, and the Indus River Basin. The authors use a composite Water Vulnerability Index based on development pressures, ecology, and other factors, to demonstrate the vulnerability of the river basins.
Date: unknown
Creator: Babel, Mukland S. & Wahid, Shahriar M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Global Drylands Imperative: Implementing the Millennium Development Goals in the Drylands of the World (open access)

The Global Drylands Imperative: Implementing the Millennium Development Goals in the Drylands of the World

This paper highlights the economic and ecological potential of drylands, as well as the vast information accumulated over the last few decades on their strategic importance to national development and meeting the MDG targets.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Dobie, Philip & Goumandakoye, Mounkaila
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Technology Project Report (open access)

Global Technology Project Report

This report discusses the financial barriers to making reductions in carbon emissions, as well as policies for dealing with those barriers.
Date: March 16, 2010
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Forecast and Policy Recommendations Addressing Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Alaska (open access)

Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Forecast and Policy Recommendations Addressing Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Alaska

This report describes potential mitigation measures to include in a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Alaska. The report states that each of the measures requires further study.
Date: unknown
Creator: Alaska Climate Change Strategy's Mitigation Advisory Group
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Forecast and Policy Recommendations Addressing Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Alaska (open access)

Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Forecast and Policy Recommendations Addressing Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Alaska

This report describes potential mitigation measures to include in a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Alaska. The report states that each of the measures requires further study.
Date: unknown
Creator: Alaska Climate Change Strategy's Mitigation Advisory Group
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
HCR 30 Will Help Alaska Prepare for and Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change (open access)

HCR 30 Will Help Alaska Prepare for and Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change

This document describes Alaska's state bill, HCR 30 which calls for a sub-cabinet on the impacts of climate change.
Date: October 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library