Recommended Climate Change Websites

These links have been selected meeting high standards of reliability on their topics. However, UNESCO cannot take any responsibility for their content. Links are grouped by topics alphabetically.

Biodiversity

• IUCN Climate (More)
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Biodiversity and climate change (More)

Capacity building

• IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme (IPCC)
• US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Center for Capacity Building (More)
• UNDP's Bali Action Plan. Capacity development for policy makers (More)
• UNEP's Climate Neutral Network (CNNet)

Education

• Climate change education portal. University of California, Berkely (More) 
• CarboSchools is an EU programme in which carbon science researchers and secondary school teachers invite young people to learn about local and global impacts of climate change, explore scientific research on the topic and act locally to reduce emissions of greenhous gases. UNESCO is involved in this promising example of collaboration between practicing scientists and secondary education. This is a highly recommended multilingual programme currently only Europe-based. (More)

Economics

• Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (UK) (More)

Ethics

• Environmental Ethics from the Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas (More)
• International Conference on Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (More)
• Oxford University's Forced Migration Review special issue FMR31 on Climate Change and Displacement (More)

Food security

• International Food Policy Research Institute (More)

Gender

• ISDR's Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Change Adaptation - 2008. Good Practices and Lessons Learned (More)
• Women's Environment & Development Organisation: gender and climate change (More)

Grant and fellowship opportunities

• Global change SysTem for Analysis Research and Training (START). Capacity Programs: African Climate Change Fellowship Program (More)
• Cooperative project on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in sustainable forest management in Ibero America (More)
• Call for proposals: Addressing the climate vulnerability of urban Africa. The Climate Change Adaptation in Africa research and capacity development program aims to improve the capacity of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable. (More)

Journalism

• Society for Environmental Journalists - climate change guide (More)

Science

• World Climate Research Programme (sponsored in part by UNESCO/IOC) (More)
• Global Climate Observing System (sponsored in part by UNESCO/IOC) (More)
• The National Academies (USA) "Understanding and Responding to Climate Change" 2008 Edition (More) 
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia Earth Institute (More)
• International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Earth Institute (More)
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (USA) (More)
• The Met Office Hadley Centre (UK) (More)
• World Resources Institute (More)
• UNDP and the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University country-level studies of climate observations and multi-model projections for 52 developing countries, including maps and diagrams illustrating observed and projected climates and narrative summaries (More)