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Climate Ark Climate Change and Global Warming Portal editor's pick popular

http://www.climateark.org/

9 out of 10 stars (22 votes)

a climate change, global warming and renewable energy portal and search engine dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation and ending deforestation
Added: Feb. 19, 2001 | Rate It

Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance, The editor's pick popular

http://www.climate-standards.org/

3 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

developing and promoting a set of rigorous standards for evaluating climate, community and biodiversity impacts of land-based carbon projects
Added: Jun. 21, 2004 | Rate It

Coalition for Rainforest Nations editor's pick popular

http://www.rainforestcoalition.org/eng/

8 out of 10 stars (8 votes)

a group of forested tropical countries collaborating to reconcile forest stewardship with economic development, including establishment of rainforest protection financed through carbon markets
Added: Apr. 16, 2006 | Rate It

Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular updated

http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides scientific perspectives on tropical deforestation and climate change, and a discussion of compensation payments made via the carbon market to reduce deforestation rates, by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, together with Environmental Defense
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Biofuelwatch editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.
Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Forests Now editor's pick

http://www.forestsnow.org/

a declaration calling on world governments to take urgent action on deforestation in the tropics and sub-tropics; such deforestation causes 18-25% of global carbon emissions, which is more than the world’s entire transport industry
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Clouds on the Horizon: The Congo Basin's Forests and Climate Change new

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/files/Global%20Warming%20Low%20PDF.pdf

a report by the Rainforest Foundation UK about emissions from deforestation in the Congo Basin, and the likely impact of increased logging and land conversion in the future (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Pacific Island Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Seas new

http://www.unep.org/PDF/mangrove-report.pdf

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from UNEP that examines major challenges in the Pacific Islands region in adjusting, with limited resources, to the responses of coastal ecosystems to climate-change-induced rise of sea levels (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Plant a Billion Trees new

http://www.plantabillion.org/

an effort by the Nature Conservancy to plant trees and restore native forests in the biodiversity rich and much threatened Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Added: Apr. 29, 2008 | Rate It

Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emission - Face Foundation popular

http://www.facefoundation.nl/Eng/introFaceE.html

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

funds the planting and maintenance of forests in order to curb the greenhouse effect
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) popular

http://www.igbp.kva.se/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

scientific effort to predict the effects of changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use on terrestrial ecosystems, and resultant feedbacks to the atmosphere and climate system
Added: Feb. 21, 2001 | Rate It

Assessing Large Scale Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods (ALARM)

http://www.alarmproject.net/alarm/

seeks to develop an integrated large scale risk assessment for biodiversity as well as terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems associated with climate change, environmental chemicals, rates and extent of loss of pollinators and biological invasions
Added: Sep. 17, 2006 | Rate It

Climate Alliance updated

http://www.klimabuendnis.org/english/update/frameset.htm

seeks to preserve the global climate by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level in the industrialized countries of the north, and conserving the rainforests in the south of the planet
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It

Cool Earth

http://www.coolearth.org/

8 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to control carbon emissions and halt climate change by tackling tropical deforestation, purchasing rainforests for their carbon ecosystem services
Added: Oct. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Forestry Project - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/FOR/

seeks to contribute to improved international policy setting regarding sustainable development of the world's forests, including providing the Austrian Carbon Database
Added: Jul. 29, 2002 | Rate It

Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme -- Overseas Development Institute

http://www.odi.org.uk/fecc/

seeks policy change in tropical forestry in ways which improve the livelihoods and well-being of the forest-dependent poor, while preserving sustainability
Added: Mar. 21, 2008 | Rate It

Global Canopy Programme

http://www.globalcanopy.org/

an alliance of 29 scientific institutions in 19 countries, which lead the world in forest canopy research, education and conservation; seeking to define and explore the range and economic value of forest ecosystem services
Added: Dec. 28, 2007 | Rate It

Global Warming and Wildlife

http://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/

National Wildlife Federation campaign which highlights the serious challenge global warming poses to the world's ecology
Added: Mar. 22, 2002 | Rate It

Impact of a Drier Early–Mid-Holocene Climate upon Amazonian Forests

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/h8ux8t2x337127h1/fulltext.pdf

report describes the effects of a drier climate 8000 to 4000 years ago on Amazonian forests and the fires that occur there (pdf)
Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

No Place to Hide: Effects of Climate Change on Protected Areas

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwfparksbro.pdf

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from WWF which concludes climate change is now taking place impacting protected areas, and that many animals and plants show significant alterations in range or behavior as a result (pdf)
Added: Sep. 09, 2003 | Rate It

Plantations Campaign

http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/carbon.html

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an index of articles from the World Rainforest Movement regarding problems caused by depending upon plantations for carbon sinks as a solution to climate change
Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

RAINFOR updated

http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/rainfor/

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an international network established to monitor the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests
Added: Dec. 03, 2004 | Rate It

TERRA: Changing Global Land Surface

http://terra.nasa.gov/FactSheets/LandSurface/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

NASA discusses human influence in climate changes and the possible migration of plant biomes
Added: Jan. 16, 2004 | Rate It

Tropical Forests and the Greenhouse Effect: A Management Response

http://www.ciesin.org/docs/002-163/002-163.html

research paper that discusses a major massive tree-planting programme in the humid tropics as a management response to address the buildup of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It

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