After transforming our environment to allow farming and burgeoning populations, how can we minimize negative impact on climate and biodiversity?

Media

• American Institute of Physics: The Discovery of Global Warming: Hypertext history of global warming
• National Academy of Sciences – Science Museum: Earthlab: Interactive materials about climate change
• The Encyclopedia of Earth: Climate Change FAQs: Comprehensive discussion on climate change contributed by users
• U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: UN convention that aims to prevent “dangerous” human interference with the climate system
• MinuteEarth Video: A short video that provides an entertaining view of trends in earth’s environment.
• NY Times Dot Earth Blog: An opinion blog in which Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits.

FAQ

• U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) FAQ: FAQ that covers some of the basics of climate change.

Research Papers

• Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO): Program-specific reports on their initiatives
• Environmental Defense Fund: Program-specific reports on their initiatives
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Offers reports on the ecosystem changes
• MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change: Offers reports and scientific publications on issues related to climate and energy global changes
• Stanford Global Climate & Energy Project: Gives program-specific reports on their initiatives
• Bruce Schneier – Resources on Existential Risk, p. 96

Organizations

• U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): A US Government research program that seeks to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Climate Change: Educational materials concerning environmental issues.
• Climate Change Communication: Bridging Science & Society: Science outreach led by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
• Climate Interactive: Offers educational materials about climate change
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Environment Directorate: UN economic agency views on environmental issues
• NOAA Climate.gov: A source of scientific data and information about the climate
• Real Climate: Offers data compilations from scientific research on weather
• MIT Center for Collective Intelligence: Climate Collaboratorium: Cooperative forum for climate recovery ideas
• Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES): Independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change
• World Bank: Climate Change: Information on projects, programs, research, news items related to climate change provided by the World Bank
• European Environment Agency): EU agency source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public
• MIT Center for Global Change Science): Adresses fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach and aims to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment
• Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research: Researches, assesses and communicates information on climate change from a distinct trans-disciplinary perspective
• U.N. Environment Programme: Program that works towards assessing environmental conditions, developing environmental instruments and strengthening institutions for the management of the environment.
• U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Leading international body for the asessment of climate change
• U.N. World Meteorlogical Organization: Specialized agency of the UN that is the authoritative voice on issues related to the environment
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): U.S. agency that has the mission of protecting human health and the environment
• U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Climate Change: A private, non-profit society of scholars that provides objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology
• UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP): University of Oxford Climate Institure to partner world-leading academics working on critical climate change issues http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/ Union of Concerned Scientists
• Climate Central: An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.

Many of the organizations listed on this page and their descriptions are from a list compiled by the Global Catastrophic Risk institute; we are most grateful for the efforts that they have put into compiling it. These organizations above all work on environmental issues, though many cover other topics as well. This list is undoubtedly incomplete; please contact us to suggest additions or corrections.