Climate Change

 

Want to know more about climate change? Explore the links below:

GOVERNMENT AND UNITED NATIONS

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental United Nations body that provides objective information on climate change.

United Nations
The United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change  is the official UN treaty for international climate change agreements.

 

Federal government action plan
The Canadian government's ecoACTION website, including its plan to deal with climate change. 

Environment Canada
Information on climate change from Canada's department of environment.

Natural Resources Canada
A Canadian Government perspective on climate change impacts and adaptation.

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
The 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives' is
an association of local, regional and national governments that have
made a commitment to sustainable development.

 

PROVINCES

Click the links on the left to find out more about your province's plan and to see a review of how well your province is dealing with climate change.

 

ATHABASCA GLACIER VIDEO

Watch this video interview made for WWViews Canada about how the Athabasca Glacier has changed due to climate change.

Video of Peter Lemieux of Icewalks: http://www.icewalks.com/
Film by Patrick McCloskey of McCloskey Productions Inc.: http://www.mccloskeyproductions.com

CANADIAN LINKS

Climate change report by the CBC
A Canadian perspective on climate change news and information. 

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
What Canada's oil and gas producers are doing about climate change.

ArcticNet- Network of Centres of Excellence Canada
A diverse group of organizations studying the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic.

Taiga Net
Taiga Net is a co-operative environmental and community web network
dedicated to Northern Canada & Alaska. Each site on this network
owns and manages its own content.

 

NGOs

Pembina Institute
See what one of Canada`s leading environmental policy research organizations has to say about how Canada is tackling climate change.

KYOTOPlus
A Canadian public engagement campaign to encourage the federal government to take stronger action against climate change.

Global Campaign for Climate Change
An initiative uniting different organizations, with the goal of mobilizing action to fight climate change. 

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
A Canadian-based policy research institute focused on sustainable development.

Moms Against Climate Change
An organization uniting mothers in Canada who are concerned about climate change and their children's future. 

 

OTHER LINKS

Climate leadership, economic prosperity
An in-depth report examining the economic and policy implications of Canada's greenhouse gas targets released by the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation (October 29, 2009).

Bjorn Lomborg - Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
The newest book from the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, which offers a different perspective on how climate change should be approached.

The organisation of Denial
An informative article on environmental skepticism.

James Lovelock - Enjoy life while you can
An article featuring scientist James Lovelock and his dire climate change predictions.

Ecological Buddhism
A Buddhist take on climate change.

Gender cc - Women for climate justice
Climate change from a gendered perspective.

Native American Emvironmental Leader Tom Goldtooth on climate change
An interview from Democracy Now. The video below also discusses some of the results from the Indigenous Summit on climate change.

Oxfam International- Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty
This paper examines the dramatic stories of some of the world's poorest people alongside the latest science on the impacts of climate change on humans. 

DeSmogBlog
A well-respected blog dedicated to climate change news.

Burying Carbon Dioxide in Underground Saline Aquifers: Political Folly or Climate Change Fix?
A paper from the University of Toronto discusses whether Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) should be used to fight climate change.

 

PERSPECTIVES ON COP15 & FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

A Beginner's Guide to  the UN Framework Convention
An easy-to-read overview of international UN climate change agreements.

• Meet Canada's climate point man
  "Michael Martin must convince the world Ottawa is willing to cut emissions"
  A profile from the Toronto Star of Canada's lead climate change negotiator. 

The official COP15 site
The official website of the COP15 negotiations. News and blogs are updated regularly.

Q&A: Copenhagen climate change summit 2009
What is COP15? Who will be there? What are the challenges? See this short guide from The Guardian to find out the answers.

Adopt A Negotiator
This blog project is dedicated to tracking the actions of the lead climate negotiators for several countries, including Canada, as they negotiate a new deal from here until COP15 in December. 

Doing better on climate change
Bjorn Lomborg argues that a new international agreement countries should focus on investment in new technology rather than emission reduction targets.

Stop quarreling and start cooperating
Dr. Hermann Ott warns that more cooperation is needed if a meaningful deal is to be reached in Copenhagen.

Technology in a global climate agreement & COP15 and Adaptation
both from the World Resource Institute think tank.

The Challenge of Copenhagen
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain, writes about the importance of reaching an international agreement, and the challenges that come with it.

Kyoto Protocol's successor: too much too soon?
This piece from the LA Times explores why the United States may not sign an international agreement at COP15.

The Limits of Growth
An article from YaleGlobal about the relationship between the economic and environmental crises, and the need for Copenhagen to go beyond previous forms of global governance.

The Road to Copenhagen
Weekly scientific journal Nature's section on Copenhagen, including news, research and editorials.