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Climate Change

The Green Sanctuary Group has compiled these links about climate change.

Local organizations dealing with climate change:
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)
http://www.nesea.org/network/members/ma_climate_action.html

Clean-Air Cool Planet
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
http://www.nescaum.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
http://www.nrdc.org/

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
http://www.iclei.org/

MA sites relevant to climate policy
Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN)
http://www.massclimateaction.org/

Regional sites relevant to climate policy
New England Governors Climate Change Action Plan (PDF file)
http://www.newenglandgovernors.org/documents/NEG-ECP%20CCAP.PDF

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative & Registry
http://www.rggi.org/
http://www.rggr.us/

National sites relevant to climate policy
U.S. National Acadamy of Science Report reviewing aspects of the Third IPCC assessment:
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/climate

U.S. Dept of State Climate Action Report (2002)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimateActionReport.html

U.S. Global Change Research Program
http://www.usgcrp.gov/

Pew Center for Global Climate Change
http://www.pewclimate.org/

UUA 2004 Study/Action Item
http://www.uua.org/actions/ecology/04global-warming.html

Links between climate and Health:
http://www.ciesin.org/TG/HH/morthmpg.html

International sites related to climate policy:
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
http://unfccc.int/

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
http://www.ipcc.ch/

350
http://www.350.org/

Films:
An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/

The Great Warming
http://www.thegreatwarming.com/index.html

Additional Information:

Probably the most comprehensive source of general "information on global warming" resources, which has a very helpful education page: http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/education/default.htm