Publications

As an integral part of programme delivery UNESCO’s Sectors and Institutes publish on specialized subjects that relate to global climate change. A sample of these publications is shown below. In addition, significant publications on this subject from other members of the UN system which are freely available are noted. You can also use the UN Gateway to see publications by each UN body.

Target audiences for these publications include policy- and decision-makers, scientists, journalists, students and the general public.

Free publications:

• The Global Ocean Observing System: A summary for policy makers, 2009 (More)
• Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development: A training and resource kit, 2008 (chapter on climate change)
• Climate Change and World Heritage, 2007 (More)
• Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage, 2007 (More)
• World Heritage and the Arctic, 2007 (More)
• A World of Science retrospective on climate change (2002-2007) (More)

• Changement Climatique : Enjeux et perspectives pour les pays du Maghreb, Initiative Kit Médias (Bureau de Rabat) (More) [in French only]

For sale publications by UNESCO Publishing related to global climate change (More)

• Third United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR-3): Water in a Changing World, 2009
• WWDR-3 Case Study Volume: Facing the Challenges, 2009
• Coastal Basins on the Edge: A UNESCO-SCOPE UNEP policy brief, 2008
• Environmental Ethics and International Policy, 2006
• Climate Change, IOC Ocean Forum series, 2005
• Explaining   the Climate, Discovering the World series, 2005
• The Changing Ocean: its effects on climate and living resources, IOC Ocean Forum series, 2003

Publications from other UN organizations

• Kick the Habit: a UN Guide to Climate Neutrality, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2008 (More)
• Climate in Peril: a Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2008 (More) 
• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in four parts: (More) 
• Working Group I Report “The Physical Science Basis”
• Working Group II Report “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”
• Working Group III Report “Mitigation of Climate Change”
• The Fourth Assessment Report Synthesis Report
   
• Acting on Climate Change: The UN System Delivering as One, 2008 (More)

• The Little REDD Book

  An updated guide to governmental and non-governmental proposals for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation from the Global Canopy Programme (More)

   

Documents:

• WWDR-3 Case Study Volume
• Water in a Changing World
• Coastal Basins on the Edge
• A World of Science retrospective on climate change (2002-2007)