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A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Ecosystem Resilience in Ten African Countries
A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Ecosystem Resilience in Ten African Countries, from Helios International, is a preliminary attempt to identify points of vulnerability as they relate to climate change-related events and sketch out what changes are needed, both politically and programmatically, to increase resilience. Published 2007

Action on Climate Change post 2012
"Action on Climate Change post 2012" is a European Union project fostering stakeholder dialogue on its long-term climate policy.

Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to Climate Change, from Oxfam, discusses what's needed in poor countries and who should pay. Published May 2007

Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
Founding partners of the Asia-Pacific Partnership, Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States, have agreed to work together and with private sector partners to meet goals for energy security, national air pollution reduction, and climate change in ways that promote sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.

Asian Water Development Outlook 2007
Asian Water Development Outlook 2007, from the Asian Development Bank, argues that developing Asian countries should not experience a water crisis in the future - there is now enough knowledge, technology, and expertise available in the region to solve its existing and future water problems. If some Asian countries face a crisis in the future, inadequate or inappropriate water governance, not physical scarcity of water, will be the likely reason. Published November 2007

Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities
Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges and Opportunities, from UNEP, says many opportunities exist for governments, industry and consumers to take appropriate actions during the life span of buildings that will help mitigate the impacts of global warming. Published March 2007

CO₂ Capture Project
The CO₂ Capture Project is a joint project comprising eight of the world's leading energy companies, aiming to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide capture from combustion sources and developing methods for safely storing carbon dioxide underground.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies
The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducts research into technologies to capture, utilize, and store carbon dioxide from large stationary sources.

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Storage
Overview from the United States Energy Information Administration.

Carbon Sequestration
Introduction to carbon sequestration and related issues from the United States Department of Energy.

Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum is an international climate change initiative that is focused on development of improved cost-effective technologies for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide for its transport and long-term safe storage.

Carbon commerce
Glossary on carbon commerce from CO2e.com.

Clean Air - Cool Planet
The mission of Clean Air - Cool Planet is to work with partners in business, education and the community in solving the global warming problem, developing economically efficient and innovative climate policies and mobilizing civic engagement to implement practical climate solution. The regional focus of the organization is the northeast United States.

Clean Development through Cogeneration
Clean Development through Cogeneration, from the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy, highlights the global potential for decentralized energy to improve the environment and the corporate bottom line in the context of the Clean Development Mechanism.

Climate Change and Energy
SciDev.Net provides news, features, opinion and analysis on climate change and energy.

Climate policy
Glossary on climate policy from Weathervane.

Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance
The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance has developed and is promoting rigorous standards for evaluating land-based carbon projects.

Coastal Zone Management on the Internet
Extensive lists of interesting and informative websites to assist you to sustainably manage, use and research the world's coasts

Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net)
CNBRM Net provides broad, robust and useful networking tools aimed at linking stakeholders involved in Community-Based Natural Resource Management.

Cool Earth 50
Speech by Shinzo Abe, then Japanese Prime Minister, launching the Cool Earth 50 proposal for a framework to follow up the Kyoto Protocol.

Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching
Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching, from the World Conservation Union and the Nature Conservancy, shows that the fate of corals may not yet be sealed. By fighting other stress factors such as pollution or overfishing impacting on coral reefs, reefs will be able to better adapt to climate change impacts. Published October 2006

Database : Community Forest Management in Tropical America
The database Manejo Forestal Comunitario en América Tropical is a computer-based tool for finding bibliographic information about community forest management in tropical America. In Spanish only.

Deltas Network
The Deltas Network aims to bring scientists, planners and those involved in the development of delta areas together.

Dialogue on Water and Climate
A platform for policy makers and water resources managers and others to make better use of information generated by climatologists and meteorologists. Provides documents, guiding tools and principles, publicity and other materials to enhance understanding of potential impacts of climate variability on water resources and ecosystems.

Emissions Marketing Association
The mission of the Emissions Marketing Association is to promote market-based trading solutions for environmental management and to serve its membership.

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Considerations for On-road Transport in Asia
Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Considerations for On-road Transport in Asia is a contribution to the development, by the Asian Development Bank, of a policy framework to guide investments and address energy efficiency and climate change in the transport sector in Asia. Published May 2006

Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index, from Yale University and Columbia University, identifies broadly-accepted targets for environmental performance and measures how close each country comes to these goals. Published annually

Ethanol Across America
Ethanol Across America is a grassroots information network that is committed to advancing the production and use of renewable fuel ethanol through education and outreach.

EuroCaribbean
EuroCaribbean is a European window for the support of energy sustainability in the Caribbean islands.

European Renewable Energy Council
The European Renewable Energy Council - EREC - is an umbrella organization of the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations active in the fields of photovoltaic, small hydropower, solar thermal, biomass, wind energy and geothermal energy, thus representing the entire renewable energy sector.

European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme
Official site of the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, at the time of its launch, the largest multi-country, multi-sector trading scheme worldwide.

Fish for All
"Fish for All" is a global initiative aimed at bringing together policy makers, scientists, stakeholders and non-governmental organizations to create dialogue, policy analysis and studies for solutions to the future of aquatic life and food security and nutrition for those who use and depend on fish.

Future International Action on Climate Change Network
The purpose of the website is to provide an interactive international platform for discussion on future international action on climate change, including approaches of a post-2012 commitment regime under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol.

Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
A collaborative effort of the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, the OECD/DAC Network on Gender Equality, and the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender, the initiative recognizes that without equality and empowerment of women, the Millenium Development Goals will not be achieved.

Gender and Climate Change
Gender and Climate Change is an international network established to raise awareness on gender issues within the negotiations on climate change. Also provides resources and links to other international organizations involved in related activities and aims.

Gender and Climate Change - a Forgotten Issue?
Ulrike Röhr discusses the historical lapse in assimilating gender issues in the climate change debate and the urgent need to undertake research and analysis on this issue

Global Environment Outlook
The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) project, from the United Nations, has published four reports between 1997 and 2007 on environment, development and human well-being.

Grants and other funding opportunities
SciDev Net maintains an up-to-date list of funding opportunities in the area of science and development.

Green Growth
Green Growth is an ESCAP initiative promoting win-win approaches to reconciling the conflict between current pathways for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Hilltops to Oceans
The H20 Partnership aims to further the environmental, economic and social importance of oceans, coasts, and islands, and to facilitate the realization of the Montreal commitment by governments to mitigate water pollution and resource degradation from the hilltops to the oceans.

Human Development Reports
The Human Development Reports, from UNDP, frame debates on some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The 2007 edition features climate change. Published annually

International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
IETA aims to be the premier voice for the business community on emissions trading. Its objectives are: to promote an integrated view of the emissions trading system; to participate in the design and implementation of national and international rules and guidelines; and to provide the most up-to-date and credible source of information on emissions trading and greenhouse gas market activity.

International Environmental Agreements
Comprehensive details of bilateral and multilateral environmental agreements.

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development. Website contains information on activities, awareness campaigns, publications and other resources.

Investment and Financial Flows Relevant to the Development of Effective and Appropriate International Response to Climate Change
Investment and Financial Flows, from the UNFCCC Secretariat, reviews and analyzes investment and financial flows relevant to the development of an effective and appropriate international response to climate change, with particular focus on developing country's needs, including their medium-to long-term requirements for investment and finance. Published August 2007

Japan for Sustainability
The Japan for Sustainability website includes a useful information centre listing sustainability news and also ideas for responding to climate change and other threats.

Journey to Forever: City Farms
Journey to Forever provides an introduction to urban farming, including an extensive list of resources.

LOICZ Basins
The LOICZ Basins approach offers a common, global assessment and synthesis of coastal zone and management issues.

Lighting the Way: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
Lighting the Way, from the InterAcademy Council, identifies a scientific consensus framework for directing global energy development. It lays out the science, technology and policy roadmap for developing energy resources to drive economic growth in both industrialized and developing countries while also securing climate protection and global development goals.

Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Network
The LCA Network aims to put practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, NGOs and policy-makers working on climate adaptation issues in touch with each other making it easier to stay abreast of climate adaptation research and practices from around the globe.

Local Action for Biodiversity: a Series of Case Studies
Local Action for Biodiversity, from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, presents a set of case studies documenting action to improve biodiversity by cities around the world. Published: May 2008

MDG Monitor
The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Make Poverty History
Join the band of people who are taking action to make poverty history.

Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change
Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change, from the World Conservation Union and the Nature Conservancy, details a series of strategies and tools to fight the non-climatic stress factors to help mangroves survive in the face of climate change. Published October 2006

Mangroves for the Future
A “lukewarm” view of global warming by John L Daly, with links to other dissenters' sites.

Mangroves for the Future
Mangroves for the Future, led by the World Conservation Union, is a multi-agency, multi-country initiative for the long-term conservation and sustainable management of coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, wetlands, forests, lagoons, estuaries, beaches and sandy shores.

Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa (2.2Mb download)
Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa, from the International Livestock Research Institute, identifies areas that appear to be particularly prone to climate change impacts, considers the biophysical and social vulnerability of these and other areas and assesses the use of climate information in decisionmaking. Published May 2006

Methane to Markets
The Methane to Markets Partnership is an international initiative that advances cost-effective, near-term methane recovery and use as a clean energy source.

National Adaptation Programme of Action Website
The National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) process is designed to assist Least Developed Countries to build capacity for addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs, as well as for the preparation of their national communications under the climate treaty. The NAPA website provides information and resources in supoort of the development of NAPAs.

Nuclear Information and Resource Service
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service and World Information Service on Energy is the information and networking center for people and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues.

Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits
Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits, from the Consultative Group for International Research in Agriculture, concludes that abatement costs of avoided deforestation could be more cost effective than other climate change mitigation activities. With the right policy incentives, there could be significant benefits to smallholder farmers, to ecosystems, and to the global climate. Published November 2007

Pacific Islands Regional Ocean Policy
The Pacific Islands Regional Ocean Policy, approved in 2002, underscores the importance of the ocean to Pacific Island nations and communities and serves to unify a number of existing regional initiatives relevant to management and development of ocean and coastal resources and environments. Site includes the proceedings of the 2004 Ocean Forum.

Pacific Plan Online
Pacific Leaders have called for the serious challenges facing the countries of the Pacific to be met through sharing scarce resources and aligning policies to strengthen national capacities to support their people. The Pacific Plan aims to strengthen regional cooperation and integration as the main instrument for realizing this Pacific Vision.

Plant-a-Tree-Today
The PATT foundation aims at providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in developing countries. Working in conjunction with corporate partners, government and intergovernmental agencies, non governmental organizations, local authorities, and local communities, it plans to plant 1 million trees per year in locations worldwide.

Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia
Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems, from the World Conservation Union, highlights the challenges faced by poor and often resource-dependent households across Asia. Published August 2006

R2 ReefResilience
ReefResilience is the place to find information about building resilience into coral reef management strategies.

REN21
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century is a global policy network aimed at providing a forum for international leadership on renewable energy. Its goal is to allow the rapid expansion of renewable energies in developing and industrialised economies.

Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting, from the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Agroforestry Centre, underlines the massive potential of rainwater harvesting in Africa

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership is a global partnership that structures policy initiatives for clean energy markets and facilitates financing for sustainable energy projects. It aims to accelerate the integration of renewables into the energy mix and to advocate energy efficiency as a path to improved energy security and reduced carbon emissions, ensuring socio-economic benefits.

Renewable Fuels Now
Renewable Fuels Now is a coalition of associations and corporations that support the need for energy independence through domestically produced renewable fuels.

SMILE
Gateway to sustainable transport, including details of European demonstration projects and successful practices.

Seawater Forests Initiative
Seawater Forests Initiative uses seawater, photosynthesis and human intelligence to green coastal deserts, generate wealth and abundance and provide immediate and long lasting planetary ecological balance.

Silvopastoral AgroForestry Toolbox
The Silvopastoral AgroForestry Toolbox helps farmers, land managers and their advisors assess the potential of sillvopastoral agroforestry as an alternative land use and provides information on how to manage a silvopastoral agroforestry system.

Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment of the carbon dioxide capture and storage issue, published in 2005. The Summary for Policymakers is available as a 0.5Mb download.

Spotlight on Biofuels: the Research Challange
News and views on the biofuels issue from the Science and Development Network

Stern Review
The Stern Review, which was commissioned by the British government, considers the economic impacts of future climate trends and the costs of taking action to avert the threat by reducing emissions and limiting impacts. Published October 2006

Sustainable Africa
News, features, networking assistance and a calendar and events on the theme of sustainable Africa.

Sustainable Development in Coastal Regions and in Small Islands
Sustainable Development in Coastal Regions and in Small Islands is an UNESCO initiative aimed at promoting the development of coastal regions in a manner which is environmentally sound, socially equitable and culturally appropriate. Combines expertise from natural and social sciences as well as local knowledge and practice.

Sustainable Energy Finance Directory
The Sustainable Energy Finance Directory is a free-of-charge online database of lenders and investors who actively provide finance to the sustainable energy (renewable energy and energy efficiency) sector worldwide.

Technologies for Conservation & Development (t4cd)
The t4cd project works to raise awareness of, and accessibility to, the benefits of technology in the fields of conservation and sustainable development. The project aims to deliver clear biodiversity and livelihoods gains by promoting (and implementing) appropriate application of certain technologies to conservation and development issues. t4cd focusses primarily on Information and Communication Technologies.

TerrAfrica
TerrAfrica is a multi-partner initiative, aiming to increase the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of investments towards sustainable land management in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Feasibility of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in the UK
Study of the potential for carbon dioxide capture and storage in the United Kingdom, prepared by the Department of Trade and Industry.

The Jatropha System
Jatropha curcas is cultivated as a crop-protecting hedgerow in Mali and provides oil for soap and fuel as a renewable, multipurpose resource. See also World Bank Indigeneous Knowledge Notes No 47.

The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction
The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction, from the Center for Integrative Environmental Research, presents an overview of climate impacts on various economic sectors in the United States, organized by region. Published October 2007

The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions
The World Food Situation, from the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an assessment of global food supplies and prices. It concludes that business as usual could mean increased misery, especially for the world's poorest populations. A mix of policy actions that avoids damage and fosters positive responses is required. Published December 2007

Too Hot to Handle?
Too Hot to Handle?, from the Oxford Research Group, concludes that nuclear power still poses all of its traditional problems and cannot help with climate change. Published July 2007

UNEP Gender and the Environment
Information, comment and other resources on gender and the environment from the United Nations Environment Programme.

United States Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan
The Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan, from the United States Department of Energy, details measures to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of new and advanced technologies that avoid, reduce, or capture and store greenhouse gas emissions. Published September 2006

WRAP
WRAP works in partnership, helping businesses and the general public to reduce waste, to use more recycled material, and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimize landfills, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.

Warm Words (0.5Mb download)
Warm Words, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, argues that the climate story needs to be told in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement. Published August 2006

World Institute of Sustainable Energy
The World Institute of Sustainable Energy aims to play a holistic and critical role in shaping the development of the renewable energy sector in all Indian states.

YouTube: e-agriculture
YouTube makes available videos relating to agriculture and rural development, demonstrating one use of information and communications technologies in facilitating agriculture and rural development.

Zero Waste Alliance
The Zero Waste Alliance is a non-profit partnership of universities, government, business and other organizations working to develop, promote and apply Zero Waste strategies. It has developed EPEAT, an environmental procurement tool designed to help institutional purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebook computers and monitors based on their environmental attributes, and other resources.

e-agriculture
e-agriculture.org is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in the sector. In Global Examples, the site shares stories of projects, activities or practices that illustrate e-agriculture activities.

e-agriculture.org
e-agriculture.org is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of information, communication and associated technologies in the sector. The aim is to enable members to exchange opinions, experiences, good practices and resources related to e-agriculture, and to ensure that the knowledge created is effectively shared and used worldwide.

Autogenerated: 25 Jul 2008

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