Resources


Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol

Climate Change Secretariat, Haus Carstanjen, Martin Luther King Strasse 8, PO Box 260 124, D-53153 Bonn, Germany. Ph. (+49-228) 815-1000. Fax (+49-228) 815-1999. Email: secretariat@unfccc.de; web www.unfccc.de.

United Nations Environmental Program’s Information Unit for Convention, Geneva Executive Center, C. P. 356, CH-1219 Chatelaine, Switzerland. Ph. (+41-22) 979-9111. Fax (+41-22) 797-3464. Email: iuc@unep.ch; web www.unep.ch.

Contact the above two places for these publications : Convention on Climate Change; The Kyoto Protocol; and A Guide to the Climate Change Process; Understanding Climate Change: A Beginner’s Guide to the UN Framework Convention and its Kyoto Protocol.


Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC Secretariat, World Meteorological Organization Building, 7 bis Avenue de la Paix, PO Box 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Ph. (+41-22) 730-8234. Fax (+41-22) 730-8025. Email: ipcc_sec@gateway.wmo.ch.
For IPCC reports: contact Secretariat, or web site www.ipcc.ch.


Suggested Reading

Gelbspan, Ross. The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle over Earth’s Threatened Climate. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1997.

Gribbin, John. Hothouse Earth: The Greenhouse Effect and Gaia. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Houghton, John. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, 1997.

Leggett, Jeremy. The Carbon War: Global Warming at the End of the Oil Era. Penguin Books, 1999.


Climate Skeptics Organizations

Global Climate Coalition

George Marshall Institute

Science and Environmental Policy Project

Greening Earth Society

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change

Check for more detailed background on the climate skeptics at:
www.ucsusa.org/environment/skeptics.html



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