Resources

Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Study on the Relationship between Climate Change and Human Rights

International Council on Human Rights

2008 Study on the human rights implications of climate change.

The Center for International Environmental Law

A list of CIEL’s Climate Change Publications

The Environmental Law Institute: Climate Change Program

“The Environmental Law Institute is an internationally recognized, non-partisan research and education center that works to strengthen environmental protection by improving law and governance.”

The Future is Here: Climate Change in the Pacific, Oxfam, 2009

Nature Magazine: “What we Learned in 2008”

Climate Justice

“[T]he website of the Climate Justice Programme, a collaboration of lawyers and campaigners around the world encouraging, supporting, and tracking enforcement of the law to combat climate change. On this site you can find information and documents on many of the legal initiatives that have been brought under various legal theories in national and international forums.”

Warming Law: Changing the Climate in the Courts

“Warming Law was launched by the Constitutional Accountability Center’s predecessor organization, Community Rights Counsel, in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.”

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change

“The leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nationals Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorlogical Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.”

IPCC Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The U.S. Global Change Research Program

“[C]oordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the environment and their implications for society.”

USGCRP Report: Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. (2009)

Climate Institute: Islands Program

Climate Action Network

[A] worldwide network of over 450 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Climate Frontlines: On the Frontlines of Climate Change

This site “seeks community-based experiences with climate change: impacts, opportunities and adaptation strategies. It provides a platform for sharing observations, concerns and innovations.” Accepts “contributions from indigenous or rural communities in small islands, high altitudes, the Arctic, desert margins and other vulnerable environments.”

UNESCO: Intersectoral Platform on Small Island Developing States

Page on UNESCO’s work on climate change & sea level rise

World Resources Institute

Resources on Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Center

“[C]oordinates the Caribbean region’s response to climate change…the key node for information on climate change issues and on the region’s response to managing and adapting to climate change in the Caribbean.”

Island-Specific Reports from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Climate Change and Caribbean: A Regional Framework, 2009

Caribbean Climate Graphics

South Pacific Sea Level & Climate Monitoring Project

This resource is “an Australian Government initiative, funded by the Australian Agency for Interantional Development, which will enable South Pacific Island Countries to better manage their own environments and contribute to achieving sustainable development.”

South Pacific Island Reports, from the South Pacific Sea Level & Climate Change Monitoring Project