Climate and Airborne Pollutants
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure provides an overview of how air pollutants have an impact on climate change.
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Emissions Caps for Electricity
Date: 2010
Creator: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Description: This map shows states that cap greenhouse gas emissions through performance standards or through cap and trade systems.
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CCCC Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality
Date: 2008
Creator: GRID-Arendal
Description: 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.
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Ting and the Possible Futures
Date: June 2008
Creator: Douglis, Carole
Description: This is a children's book where the characters build a time machine that lets them visit alternate futures based on the decisions they make in the present. The story provides a glimpse of a post-apocalyptic dystopia as a result of severe global climate change, as well as a future utopian ideal that comes as a result of implementing massive changes to land use and food and energy production.
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Tunza, The UNEP Magazine for Youth. Vol. 6, no. 1
Date: 2008
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to policies and practices that reduce carbon emissions.
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Tunza, The UNEP Magazine for Youth. Vol. 7, no. 2
Date: 2009
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue addresses topics related to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009.
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Our Planet : Green Economy - Making it work
Date: February 2010
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Our Planet is a periodical magazine published by the United Nations Environment Programme. This issue is devoted to programs in several countries that are investing in a "green economy" in order to ensure the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Our Planet : Kick the Habit - Towards a low carbon economy
Date: May 2008
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Description: Our Planet is a periodical magazine published by the United Nations Environment Programme. This issue is devoted to a discussion of ways to reduce carbon emissions in order to reduce the threats of climate change.
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Mapping vulnerability of tropical forest to conversion, and resulting potential CO2 emissions: A rapid assessment for the Eliasch Review
Date: May 27, 2008
Creator: Miles, Lera
Description: This report is a rapid assessment analysis undertaken to inform the UK's Eliasch Review on the role of international finance mechanisms to preserve global forests in tackling climate change. The results should be used with an understanding of the caveats specified at the end of the report.
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Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism
Date: August 15, 2008
Creator: Hoare, Alison
Description: 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).
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