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Climate change hub
Where to begin?
If you are new to the issue of climate change, the extent of resources on the web can be overwhelming.
Don't worry: it's overwhelming to those who have been in this field for their entire careers. So “where to begin?” is a very reasonable question.
A wide of general information is available on the General reference & information on climate change page, including a number of climate change “primers.”
Additionally, see this UN-sponsored listing of major reports on climate change.
But if you are looking for one single authoritative resource, a reasonable place to start is with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international body constituted in 1988 by the WMO and UNEP to assess the status of climate change science.
Since 1990, thousands of scientists working under the IPCC framework have produced a major assessment of climate change science every 5-7 years. The process has become so laborious that it now takes more than one year just to release the complete report.
The latest final overview was issued in 2023, and includes a 42-page Summary for Policymakers (SPM). This document represents the core commonly held understanding and assessment of climate change proferred by the scientific community.
In addition to the Climate change pages (listed to left),
more climate change resources are available
on the following pages:
· Periodicals*
· NGOs*
· International, environmental & climate security
· Climate change @ Global public health
· Env'l and climate indicators & risk assessment
· Env'l psychology, climate anxiety & nature therapy
· Environment, religion & spirituality*
· Environmental & climate history
· Sea level rise & coastal change
· Agriculture & climate change
· Ecosystem approach (inc. NbS, NCS & EbA)
· Climate change (& “climate change biology”)
For place-based climate change information, start at:
*climate change resources
on these pages are highlighted
Climate change pages
Key climate science assessments & reports
Modeling, mapping, scenario planning +
Carbon accounting, tracking & calculators
Carbon pricing (taxes, markets & ETSs)
Carbon offsets & net zero emissions (NZE)
Carbon sequestration (including CCS & CDR)
Geoengineering & climate intervention