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Climate Change Resource Guide

Environmental Law

See our Environmental Law Research Guide.

Governmental Agencies

Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. States Climate Change Science Program

U.S. Global Change Research Program

U.S. Global Change Research Information Office

California Climate Change Portal

National Climatic Data Center, U.S. Department of Commerce

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Service

Office of Climate Change (UK)

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change HM Treasury

International Organizations & Associations

Center for Climate Strategies (CCS)

Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO)

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)(with the World Resources Institute (WRI)): Energy Security and Climate Change

European Commission (Climate Change)

European Environment Agency

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Global Policy Forum

Greenpeace International

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
       See, esp., IPCC Reports, Climate Change 2007 (3 vols.), full-text, linked from IPCC home page

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

International Energy Agency

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - including their Earth Negotiations Bulletin issue on the UNFSCCC

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Responding to Climate Change

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

United Nations System's Work on Climate Change

The World Bank

World Meteorological Organization

World Resources Institute (WRI)

World Trade Organization Trade and Environment Division - see The Multilateral Trading System and Climate Change (2008)

International Agreements

EISIL: International Environmental Law: Protection of the Atmosphere

Primary Documents

Atlas of International Freshwater AgreementsConvention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Report of the Executive Committee on Agenda Item 17 (ICAO)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 

Finding Help

D'Angelo Law Library staff

Ask a Law Librarian

Non-law Research Guides by Subject

How Do I Find...? (University of Chicago Library Instruction page)

Research Guides

D'Angelo Law Library Research Guides 

Climate Change Resource Guide

Peace Palace Library Catalog

Bibliography on the Environment: Climate Change (Peace Palace Library)

Lang, Isa, "Wrestling With an Elephant: A Selected Bibliography and Resource Guide on Global Climate Change," 100 Law Library Journal 675 (Autumn 2008)

Researching Climate Change

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide: The Environment

WESTLAW WebPlus (Legal Issues: Climate Change)

Finding Books

Library Catalog - Search for books by title, author, or subject heading.

Try these subject headings:

Sub-headings: Government policy; International cooperation; Forecasting; [country]; [region]

Lens - Use the Library's new search engine to locate books on your topic. It offers ranking by relevance and limiting by topic, language, format and more. See the Lens FAQ for more information

Interlbrary Loan

RefWorks

Finding Databases

Database finder

Tax

BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) Databases/Newsletters

World Climate Change Report
BioTech Watch
Chemical Regulation Daily
Chemical Regulation Reporter
Daily Environment Report
Environment & Safety Library
Environment Reporter
Environmental Due Diligence Guide
Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report
HazMat Transportation News
International Environment Daily
International Environment Reporter
Occupational Safety & Health Daily
Occupational Safety & Health Reporter
Right-To-Know Planning Guide
State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report
State Environment Daily
Toxics Law Daily
Toxics Law Reporter

Finding Articles

E-Journals List - Find full-text of an article when you have a citation.

- find full-text for an article, when available

Non-Legal Journals page

Article resources for law topics

Law Journals page

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

Index to Legal Periodicals (July 1981 to present)

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective (1908-June 1981)

LegalTrac

LexisNexis

Westlaw

Article resources for business/economics topics

D'Angelo Law Library Corporate and Securities Research

Regenstein Library Business and Economics Resource Center

     Business librarians: Jeffry Archer, Paul Belloni

Ebsco Business Source Complete

EconLit

Factiva

Article resources for science topics

John Crerar Science Library Subject Guides

     Science librarians: Andrea Twiss-Brooks, Barbara Kern

Geophysical sciences

Environmental sciences

Health and medicine resources

Article resources for public policy and social science topics

Database finder

Non-legal Journals page

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)

Public Policy in Science, Technology, Medicine & Health from the John Crerar Science Library

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

Wiley Interscience

Columbia Earthscape: Policy

Article resources for news, domestic and foreign

Finding Newspapers

ProQuest Newsstand

Factiva

Westlaw

LexisNexis

Article resources for multidisciplinary topics

Non-legal Journals page

JSTOR

Ebsco Academic Search Premier

Scopus

Web of Knowledge

Google Scholar - click here to set preferences in Google Scholar so that you can locate full-text articles at the University of Chicago Library

Journals & Newsletters

Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR)
Carbon Markets & Emissions Trading (International Financial Services)
Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter
Climate Change Management
Climate Policy
Climatic Change
Ecological Economics
Energy, Economics, and Climate Change
Energy Policy
Environmental Science & Policy
Journal of Climate

Working papers

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

OECD Environment Directorate Working Papers

Resources for the Future Working Papers

EconPapers

National Bureau of Economic Research

Finding Data/Statistics

Energy Information Administration: official energy statistics from the U.S. government

International Research Institute for Climate and Society

National Climatic Data Center, U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Census Bureau

Congressional Research Service Studies from Open CRS

SourceOECD

United Nations Environmental Statistics

WMO World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases - From the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tokyo, Japan. Systematic collection and distribution of data on the concentrations of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O, etc.), and related gases (e.g., CO, NOx, SO2) in the atmosphere & the ocean.

World Resources Institute, Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT)

Websites

ABA Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems Committee

Australia Parliamentary Library Climate Change webpage 
     See, esp., Governance and Policy (selection of foreign government websites on climate change issues)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: Environment and Climate Change, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Carbon Positive News

Chicago Climate Action Plan

Climate Change and Energy (Science and Development Network)

Climate Action Network Europe

Climate Neutral Network (UNEP)

Confronting Climate Change Initiative (Center for Global Development)

European Commission Environment Commissioner Links to Member States Climate Change Pages

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

The Green Design Institute

Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

International Research Institute for Climate and Society

Ozone Secretariat

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

USAID Global Climate Change Program
     See, esp., their Field Support pages describing their work with countries and partner organizations/agencies in those countries

U.S. Climate Action Network

100 Top Climate Change Sites - from the World Environmental Organization

Blogs

Climate Change (Foreign Policy Association)

Climate Change Law Blog (Holland & Hart)

Climate Feedback

CLIMATE-L.ORG

Climate Law Update (Thelen LLP)

ClimateIntel (Akin Gump)

ClimatePolicy (American Meteorological Society)

C-Questor News Blog: Carbon Markets and Climate Change

Global Climate Law Blog (Howrey LLP)

RealClimate

World Climate Report

Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media

 

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