Webcast

State of the Planet 2008
Hosted by the Earth Institute at Columbia University
March 27–28, 2008, New York City

United Nations Climate Change Conference
December 3–14, 2007, Bali, Indonesia

Educational Resources

Feeling the Heat
From the UNFCCC secretariat, this guide provides an introduction to climate change and how the international community is responding to it.

Glossary of climate change acronyms
This glossary provides a reference for readers of UNFCCC documents.

March 2008 Additions to Earthscape:

Papers: Policy

Environmental Change and Security Program (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

• Focus Issue 10: Appreciating the Complexity and Dignity of People's Lives: Integrating Population-Health-Environment Research in Petén, Guatemala
• Focus Issue 11: Exploring the Links Between Conservation and Health
• Focus Issue 12: Lessons From the First Generation of Integrated Population, Health, and Environment Projects
• Focus Issue 14: The Missing Links: Poverty, Population, and the Environment in Ethiopia
• Navigating Peace Policy Brief No. 1: Water Can Be a Pathway to Peace, Not War
• Navigating Peace Policy Brief No. 2: The Challenges of Groundwater in Southern Africa
• Navigating Peace Policy Brief No. 3: The New Face of Water Conflict
• Navigating Peace Policy Brief No. 4: Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Lessons From the Nile River Basin
• Water Stories: Expanding Opportunities in Small-Scale Water and Sanitation Projects

Environmental Change and Security Project Reports (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

• Environmental Change and Security Program Report, Issue 12

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

• Investment and financial flows to address climate change
• Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its resumed fourth session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties on its thirteenth session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Addendum. Decision 11/CP.13.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties on its thirteenth session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Addendum. Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its thirteenth session.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties on its thirteenth session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Part One: Proceedings.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol on its third session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Addendum. Decision 6/CMP.3.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol on its third session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Addendum. Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at its third session.
• Report of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol on its third session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Part One: Proceedings.
• Report of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation on its twenty-seventh session, held in Bali from 3 to 11 December 2007.
• Report of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice on its twenty-seventh session, held in Bali from 3 to 11 December 2007.
• Technologies for adaptation to climate change