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Biofuelwatch editor's pick popular
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
(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
Climate Ark Climate Change and Global Warming Portal editor's pick popular
(24 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/
(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/
(9 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
Forests Now editor's pick popular
(1 vote)
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
Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular
http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf
(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
Climate Change: Financing Global Forests editor's pick
http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/newsletters/resources/Executive_summary_eliasch_review.pdf
a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)
Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It
Obama2Canada editor's pick
advocates action to prevent Canadian tar sand development from being sheltered from the greenhouse gas emission reductions to which other energy production are subjected
Added: Feb. 11, 2009 | Rate It
Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emission - Face Foundation popular
http://www.facefoundation.nl/Eng/introFaceE.html
(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
(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
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
Climate Change Resource Center
a US Forest Service reference Web site for resource managers and decision-makers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation on lands in the West
Added: Aug. 16, 2008 | Rate It
Climate Change, Environment and Forests Programme -- Overseas Development Institute
http://www.odi.org.uk/work/programmes/climate-environment-forests/default.asp
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
Clouds on the Horizon: The Congo Basin's Forests and Climate Change
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
Cool Earth
(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
Deforestation Causes Climate Change
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/forest_climate/
the WWF is working to reduce the destruction of forests; the result of deforestation is an increase in greenhouse gas emissions
Added: Apr. 24, 2011 | Rate It
Forest Carbon Portal:Tracking Terrestrial Carbon
http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/
a clearinghouse of information, feature stories, event listings, project details, ‘how-to’ guides, news, and market analysis on land-based carbon sequestration projects—from forest to farm
Added: May. 01, 2009 | Rate It
Forestry Program- 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
Added: Jul. 29, 2002 | Rate It
Global Canopy Programme
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
GREEN PAPER On Forest Protection and Information in the EU: Preparing forests for climate change
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/pdf/green_paper.pdf
from the European Commission, Directorate General for Environment, a report that discusses how to manage European forests in view of expected climate changes (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2010 | Rate It
National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change
http://www.eenews.net/assets/2010/07/21/document_gw_02.pdf
a report from the USDA Forest Service that describes its plan for carrying out its mission while coping with impacts of climate change (pdf)
Added: Apr. 24, 2011 | Rate It
No Place to Hide: Effects of Climate Change on Protected Areas
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwfparksbro.pdf
(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
Pacific Island Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Seas
http://www.unep.org/PDF/mangrove-report.pdf
(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
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
