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Government Information Connection @ the Eagle Commons Library: University of North Texas Libraries' Nomination for Depository Library of the Year (open access)

Government Information Connection @ the Eagle Commons Library: University of North Texas Libraries' Nomination for Depository Library of the Year

This document is the nomination of the University of North Texas Libraries' Government Information Connection at the Eagle Commons Library for "Depository Library of the Year 2015."
Date: August 2015
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Halbert, Martin & Griffith, Bobby
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
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
Green Economy In Action: Articles and Excerpts that Illustrate Green Economy and Sustainable Development Efforts (open access)

Green Economy In Action: Articles and Excerpts that Illustrate Green Economy and Sustainable Development Efforts

The Green Economy is one in which the vital linkages among the economy, society, and environment are taken into account. This selection of articles and excerpts emerged in response to the need to fill the knowledge gap on practical, concrete, and on the ground green economy country experience. It is in this spirit that the articles and excerpts included in this publication have been selected: to provide information and knowledge for policy and decision makers and practitioners on the positive implications of greening some priority sectors, including job creation, resource efficiency, and generally contribution to sustainable development through an extensive review of scientific publications and magazines.
Date: August 2012
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
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
Forest Carbon Accounting: Overview & Principles (open access)

Forest Carbon Accounting: Overview & Principles

This report reinforces UNDP's capacity building efforts by presenting the main principles, practices and challenges of carbon accounting in the forestry sector. It highlights the historic, current and future needs for forest carbon accounting; principles and good practice; the process of forest carbon accounting; and existing guidance and toolkits available for forestry carbon accounting.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Watson, Charlene
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Climate in 2008 (open access)

State of the Climate in 2008

This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Peterson, T. C.; Baringer, M. O.; Diamond, H. J.; Fogt, R. L.; Levy, J. M.; Richter-Menge, J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer to China to Address Climate Change Mitigation (open access)

Technology Transfer to China to Address Climate Change Mitigation

This paper analyzes whether and how transfer of climate mitigation technologies to China occurs, by studying cases of seven technologies that are at the stage of deployment or diffusion. Most of these technologies were already transferred to China in terms of both technology adoption and local production. International division of labor of manufacturing and localization policies by the Chinese government facilitated local production by China, which resulted in deep cuts in production costs. Such cost reduction, coupled with technology diffusion policies by the Chinese government, then accelerated deployment and diffusion in China and other emerging economies that import Chinese products.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Takahiro Ueno
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
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
[Client Survey Summary: Portal to Texas History Interface Redesign] (open access)

[Client Survey Summary: Portal to Texas History Interface Redesign]

Document summarizing surveys conducted for the IOGENE project. It relates to information about the user interface of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Weng, Neena
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
Portal Wireframe (open access)

Portal Wireframe

This document outlines the wireframe outline for building The Portal to Texas History.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Weng, Neena
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
The First Ministerial Regional Forum (open access)

The First Ministerial Regional Forum

The First Ministerial Regional Forum on Environment and Health in Southeast and East Asian countries was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 9 August 2007. The forum was jointly organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Offices for the Western Pacific and South-East Asia, and hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Ministry of Public Health, Government of Thailand and the Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI). The forum was attended by Environment and Health Ministers from fourteen Southeast and East Asian countries including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The agenda and annotated agenda of the forum are given in Annexes 1 and 2, respectively, and a list of participants is enclosed in Annex 3.
Date: August 2007
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Go Green Ontario’s Action Plan On Climate Change (open access)

Go Green Ontario’s Action Plan On Climate Change

This report outlines Ontario's Go Green Action Plan for Climate Change and its five-point action plan.
Date: August 2007
Creator: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Initiative on Environment and Health: The Third High-Level Officials’ Meeting Report (open access)

Regional Initiative on Environment and Health: The Third High-Level Officials’ Meeting Report

The Third High-Level Officials Meeting on Environment and Health in Southeast and East Asian countries was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 8 August 2007. The First High-Level Officials Meeting was held in Manila, Philippines in November 2004, where a regional initiative on environment and health was launched, and the Second High-Level Officials Meeting was convened in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2005, where a draft Charter of the Regional Forum on Environment and Health was discussed. This Third Meeting was conducted prior to the First Ministerial Meeting, to review the progress made in national and regional actions since the Second High-Level Meeting, and discuss and endorse the draft Charter and the composition and work plans of the regional Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) on six priorities for submission to the Ministerial Meeting. The agenda and annotated agenda of the meeting are given in Annexes 1 and 2, respectively, and a list of participants is attached as Annex 3.
Date: August 2007
Creator: World Health Organization
System: The UNT Digital Library
Work Plan – Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Ecosystem Changes (open access)

Work Plan – Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Ecosystem Changes

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Date: August 2007
Creator: Thematic Working Group members on Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Ecosystem Changes
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
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
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
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
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