Sites linking to our Climate Change Digest

Disclaimer: these web sites are NOT necessarily endorsed by the Greenfacts Scientific Board

1. Universities
2. Media
3. Governmental organisations
4. Environmental and Health non-profit organizations
5. Business and Industry
6. Other websites

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1. Universities

• Centre for Economics and Social Studies on the Environment: An academic research institute on ecological economics, sustainable development indicators and information systems, interactions between economy, environment and sociology.
  
  
• GreenFacts and its Climate Change study is being used as a case study by the department of Human Ecology of the University of Alberta:
  www.hecol.ualberta.ca/Coursenotes/hecol200/hecol200_climate3greenfacts.pdf.

2. Media

• Euractiv: The leading internet portal fully dedicated to European public affairs.
  They bring together daily EU news, weekly "Update" e-mails, in-depth analysis of selected policy topics, and a 10,000 names directory, the "Guide". All content is free of charge.
  
  
• ABC Australia, the national public broadcasting company of Australia, links to the GreenFacts summary of the IPPC report in their article on the health effects of climate change: www.abc.net.au/health/regions/features/climatechange/default.

3. Governmental organisations

• EPA : Environmental Protection Agency of the US federal government.
  
  
• Canada's National Climate Change Process : The NCCP establish a national process to examine the impact, costs and benefits of implementing the Kyoto Protocol and the various implementation options open to Canada.



• The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program link to the GreenFacts Digest on their educational website for children under the heading "Cool sites":
  http://education.arm.gov/studyhall/coolsites_global.stm.

4. Environmental and Health non-profit organizations

• The World Environmental Organisation (WEO) includes GreenFacts in its "100 Top Climate Change Sites": www.world.org/weo/climate.
  
  
• KyotoUSA: KyotoUSA is a grassroots effort to encourage U.S. cities and their citizens to take action to end global warming.
  
  
• International research institute for environment development (IIED): IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination.
  
  
• SierraClub: An organization dedicated to promoting conservation of the natural environment.
  
  
• ClimNet: The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 340 Non-Governmental Organizations working to promote government, private sector and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.



• Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3), a non-profit organization "leading the transition to a clean, efficient, and fair energy system", links to the GreenFacts summary in both their Climate Change tutorial and in a list of reports on the subject:
  www.me3.org/issues/climate/tutorial,
  www.me3.org/issues/climate/reports.

5. Business and Industry

• Fedichem: Federation of the Belgian Chemical Industries.
  
  
• The Czech Environment Management Center (CEMC), an association of Czech experts and businesses for the field of industrial ecology, link to the GreenFacts Digest on climate changewww.cemc.cz/clen_www/el_casopis/WBCSD/stranky/5.
  
  
• Canada's Climate Change voluntary challenge & registry: They provide the means for promoting, assessing and recognizing the effectiveness of the voluntary approach in addressing climate change.
  
  
• Solvay Health, Safety and Environment.

6. Other websites

• Lamont-Doherty's List of 100 Useful Global Warming Web Sites:
  www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~rroberts/gwccindex.
  
  
• A website detailing the future effects of climate change on the tourism industry in the Northwest of England:
  www.snw.org.uk/tourism/links_climate.
  
  
• The GreenFacts Digest on Climate Change is among the extensive collection of web resources on the environment provided by the New Town High School in Tasmania, Australia:
  www.newtown.tased.edu.au/resources/topics/environment.
  
  
• The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) links to the GreenFacts Digest in their news section as well as among their "Key publications and online resources" links:
  www.iisd.ca/whats_new/whatsnew15,
  www.iisd.ca/publications_resources/climate_atm.



• An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability
  www.eco-portal.com/Air/Climate/Impacts/Global_Warming/welcome.asp
  
  
• A lot of good scientific information on greenhouse gases on a moderate advocacy website: www.ghgonline.org.
  
  
• EcoSustainable Hub
  
  
• Links Page
  
  
• EnviroLinks
  
  
• Pollution Prevention Regional Information Center
  
  
• Environmental Directory: Climate Change and Global Warming Environmental organizations, publications and biographies focussing on North America



• The online journal Intraspec.ca provides climate change selected resources.