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The Path to Carbon Dioxide-Free Power: Switching to Clean Energy in the Utility Sector (open access)

The Path to Carbon Dioxide-Free Power: Switching to Clean Energy in the Utility Sector

This report examines the policies and measures needed to accelerate the use of those technologies and dramatically reduce U.S. heat-trapping gas emissions by 2020. The goal is to set the nation on the path to achieving zero-carbon electricity by mid-century.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Bailie, Alison; Bernow, Stephen; Castelli, Brian; O’Connor, Pete; Romm, Joseph & Tellus Institute & The Center for Energy and Climate Solutions April
System: The UNT Digital Library
New England's Global Warming Solutions: A Study for World Wild life Fund (open access)

New England's Global Warming Solutions: A Study for World Wild life Fund

This report presents a detailed analysis of the energy impacts, carbon and pollutant emissions reductions, and economic benefits in New England of the national policies and measures analyzed in America’s Global Warming Solutions. That study indicated that the region would reap about one sixth of the net national employment created. As two years have passed since that study was begun, time has been lost for pursuing and implementing the policies and measures evaluated along the same temporal path. Now, achieving such benefits by 2010 would require an even more aggressive set and schedule of policies, or else the benefits would occur somewhat later in time. Nonetheless, these results show that a truly aggressive national policy commitment to the problem of climate change could achieve large near-term carbon emissions reductions along with environmental and economic gains.
Date: August 2000
Creator: Bernow, Stephen; Dougherty, William; Page, Tom; Dunbar, Jana & Goldberg, Marshall
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment and Review of the Climate Change Policy Programme, Interim Report (open access)

Assessment and Review of the Climate Change Policy Programme, Interim Report

This interim report provides an assessment and review of the Japanese Climate Change Policy Programme.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Central Environment Council, Ministry of the Environment of Japan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mitigation Technology Challenges: Considerations for National Policy Makers to Address Climate Change (open access)

Mitigation Technology Challenges: Considerations for National Policy Makers to Address Climate Change

This report summarizes the scope of the technology challenge needed to address climate change; the mitigation options and likely global costs; the trends in financing sustainable energy investments; and the status and issues relating to a selective set of technologies likely to be of particular interest to developing countries.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Chidiak, Martina & Tirpak, Dennis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate and Global Change Interagency Inventory Data Sheet (open access)

Climate and Global Change Interagency Inventory Data Sheet

The Climate and Global Change Interagency Inventory Data Sheet is a working document (dated August 2002) that includes information provided by federal agencies regarding their climate and global change research activities.
Date: August 26, 2002
Creator: Climate Change Science Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spying Global Warming in the Desert? [News release]. (open access)

Spying Global Warming in the Desert? [News release].

This brief news article provides preliminary evidence that global warming may have sped up the pace at which grasslands are being overtaken by mesquite, creosote and other shrubs at desert sites around the world.
Date: August 27, 2001
Creator: Comis, Don
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas (open access)

Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas

WWF is working harder than ever to establish a global network of ecologically representative and effectively managed land, freshwater, and marine protected areas. With 40 years experience, targeted conservation goals, and projects combining practical field implementation with highlevel policy work in over 100 countries, we are uniquely placed to lead protected area work into the 21st century.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Dudley, Nigel; Stolton, Sue & Duncan, Emma
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (open access)

Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

The "Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation" (ANADP) conference was held at the National Library of Estonia, from May 23-25, 2011. More than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries were gathered in Tallinn, Estonia and explored how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of digital cultural memory. This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that were developed by conference panels and attendees in the months following ANADP.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Educopia Institute
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical description of the IIASA model cluster (open access)

Technical description of the IIASA model cluster

A footnote on page one explains that this paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (also known as the Eliasch Review) with marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) used to calculate opportunity costs of reducing forest emissions.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Gusti, Mykoln; Havlik, Peter & Oberstelner, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems (open access)

Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems

This publication is meant for Protected Areas Managers. It gives detailed information about assessing occurring and possible damage from climate change and fending off the damage - buying time for our protected areas while the world works out the only long-term solution - reducing CO2 emissions.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Hansen, L. J.; Biringer J.L. & Hoffman J.R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers (open access)

Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers

This worksheet accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems', which discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agency Collaboration for UNCCD Implementation: Current Situation and Lessons Learned (open access)

Agency Collaboration for UNCCD Implementation: Current Situation and Lessons Learned

This joint publication of the Facilitation Committee of the Global Mechanism for the UNCCD CoP-6, (25 Aug - 5 Sept 2003, Havana, Cuba), presents short briefs by Committee members highlighting their commitment to CCD process and its implementation. It provides some lessons learnt from collaboration between members through a matrix of successful collaborative efforts to date.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Havana, Cuba
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism (open access)

Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism

This report provides an estimation of the funds that will be needed to build carbon sink capacity in 25 rain forest nations to enable them to participate in the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation mechanism, an instrument proposed under the UN Convention on Climate Change that rewards countries for avoiding the removal or degradation of forests. This paper was commissioned by the Office of Climate Change as background work to its report "Climate Change: Financing Global Forests" (the Eliasch Review).
Date: August 15, 2008
Creator: Hoare, Alison; Legge, Thomas; Nussbaum, Ruth & Saunders, Jade
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workshop on New Emissions Scenarios Meeting Report (open access)

Workshop on New Emissions Scenarios Meeting Report

This report summarizes a workshop which investigated the possible roles that the IPCC could play in developing and assessing new emission scenarios.
Date: August 2005
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of the Fourth Session of the WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (open access)

Report of the Fourth Session of the WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Fourth session of the IPCC highlighted that developed (industrialized) countries are responsible for some 75% of the total emission of carbon dioxide and a clear commitment to stabilize and then reduce greenhouse gas emission is necessary. Also, the Panel emphasized the need for massive expansion of research and development in new energy sources and more efficient resource management procedures. discussed on the IPCC work program for 1991 and beyond and provided objective analysis of scientific and technical assessment of the issue of climate change. The Panel also approved the report of the fourth session.
Date: August 1990
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bird Species and Climate Change: The Global Status Report: A synthesis of current scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change impacts on global bird species now, and projected future effects (open access)

Bird Species and Climate Change: The Global Status Report: A synthesis of current scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change impacts on global bird species now, and projected future effects

This review seeks to provide a global overview of current effects of climate change on birds as well as a picture of future impacts. It provides a scientific assessment of current research data, achieved by surveying hundreds of research articles and reports on the topic.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Janice Wormworth BSc MA & Dr Karl Mallon BSc PhD
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bird Species and Climate Change: The Global Status Report: A synthesis of Current Scientific Understanding of Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts on Global Bird Species Now, and Projected Future Effects (open access)

Bird Species and Climate Change: The Global Status Report: A synthesis of Current Scientific Understanding of Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts on Global Bird Species Now, and Projected Future Effects

This review seeks to provide a global overview of current effects of climate change on birds as well as a picture of future impacts. It provides a scientific assessment of current research data, achieved by surveying hundreds of research articles and reports on the topic.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Janice Wormworth BSc MA & Dr Karl Mallon BSc PhD
System: The UNT Digital Library
Outline of the Basic Environment Plan (open access)

Outline of the Basic Environment Plan

This is the third Basic Environment Plan of Japan. The theme of the plan is "integrated improvements of the environment, economy, and society." The plan develops long-term goals and will be assessed by quantitative targets and indicators for management. The plan calls for a clear public information campgaign.
Date: August 2006
Creator: Japan. Kankyōshō.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plausible Biological Cause For Major Climate Events (open access)

Plausible Biological Cause For Major Climate Events

Scientific news article about Snowball Earth eras. These are times when ice periodically covered the globe, and the era called the Cambrian Explosion, which produced the first fossils of almost all major categories of animals living today.
Date: August 10, 2001
Creator: Kennedy, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up (open access)

Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up

This article was published in Nature and summarized the presentations of a six-day symposium held 3-8 July 1995 on Climate Variability and Forcing over the past mellennium. Our present climate is unusually warm, and the pattern of warming over the past century strongly suggests an anthropogenic influence from greenhouse gas and sulphate aerosols. That was the message emerging from a week-long symposium examining climate variability over the past 1,000 years, which brought together results from a growing array of observational techniques, analyses of natural records and model results.
Date: August 24, 1995
Creator: MacCracken, Michael C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Kyoto, Manitoba's Green Future : Next Steps, 2008 Action on Climate Change (open access)

Beyond Kyoto, Manitoba's Green Future : Next Steps, 2008 Action on Climate Change

The Report raised concerns about the impacts of climate change on our lakes, forests, northern communities and agricultural regions. At the same time, Manitobans identified many benefits that could come from taking action. Moreover, it also recommended a broader public awareness campaign and the development of regional and national partnerships.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Manitoba Science, Technology, Energy and Mines, Climate and Green Initatives Branch
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dust from Africa Leads to Large Toxic Algae Blooms in Gulf of Mexico, Study Finds. [Press release]. (open access)

Dust from Africa Leads to Large Toxic Algae Blooms in Gulf of Mexico, Study Finds. [Press release].

This press release summarizes the findings of a new study. Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae. The research was partially funded by a NASA grant as part of ECOHAB: Florida (Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms), a multi-disciplinary research project designed to study harmful algae.
Date: August 28, 2001
Creator: NASA News
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law of the People's Republic of China on Desert Prevention and Transformation (open access)

Law of the People's Republic of China on Desert Prevention and Transformation

This Law was formulated in order to prevent desertification, to improve and reclaim desertified land, to protect the environment, and to promote a sustainable economy and society.
Date: August 31, 2001
Creator: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Source of Natural Fertilizer Discovered in Oceans (open access)

New Source of Natural Fertilizer Discovered in Oceans

New findings suggest that the deep ocean is teeming with organisms that produce essential natural fertilizers. A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team led by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has discovered a previously unknown type of photosynthetic bacteria that fixes nitrogen, converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form other organisms can use.
Date: August 8, 2001
Creator: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Legislative and Public Affairs.
System: The UNT Digital Library