Chapter 9
International environmental problems

Climate Change & Greenhouse Effect

        United Nations/IPCC and associated materials

• U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC
• SIXTEENTH SESSIONS OF THE SUBSIDIARY BODIES, 5-14 JUNE 2002, BONN
• IPCC Other Links
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Earth Summit 2002 A UNEP/UNDP initiative. The website says: "Stakeholder Forum is an international multi-stakeholder organisation on sustainable development which promotes the outcomes from the first Earth Summit in 1992 and the Johannesburg Summit in 2002."
• Stakeholder forum This is a new location of - and name for the - the organisation referred to in the previous link.
  

         Other materials on climate change and greenhouse effect

• European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future
• Australian Greenhouse Office
• Global Change Home Page
• Global Environmental Change Program
• International Institute for Sustainable Development: Climate change page
• Pacific Institute - Climate Change and Biodiversity
• NOAA (USA) main web site
• NOAA Ocean current changes
• TERI: Tata Energy Research Institute: India
• UEA: CSERGE
• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• Pew Centre on Climate Change
• World Resources Institute: Climate Change and Energy

      Emissions Trading

• International Emissions Trading Association See, in particular, the very valuable table of LINKS in here
• Carbon Trading Carbon trading simulations and software
• Carbontrader.com Another carbon trading site

   Nordhaus material on modelling Global Climate Change

• Index of -~nordhaus-homepage
• Home Page of William Nordhaus
• Norhaus Readings on Environment
• Norhaus: RICE and DICE models

Treaties

• Environmental treaties and resource indicators

Acid Rain

International Trade

• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
• BE Press: Special Issue on the Pollution Haven hypothesis

Biodiversity loss

• Biodiversity Bibliography Polasky
• Biodiversity Conservation on Private Lands. Information Problems and Regulatory Choices. Author unknown - on UCL (London) web site
• Biodiversity cartel VOGEL

Miscellaneous

• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Australian EIA Network
• Links from Australian EIA
• Centre for Social and Economic Research
• Cutter.com: environment watch links
• Eco-compass: The internet guide to environmental information
• ENDS- Environmental Data Services
• Environet Australia
• Environmental Defence Fund Worldwide
• Europe's environment: the second assessment
• Friends of the earth: economics for the earth
• Global Development and Environment Institute
• Global Environmental Facility
• Global Network of Environment and Technology
• Greenpages- The Global Directory for Environmental Technology
• The H.J Heinz Centre
• OECD: environmental issues
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Geological Survey
• U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Game Theory

• Herbert Gintis' Web Site
• Rasmusen Homepage
• G570 Thinking Strategically
• GAMES AND INFORMATION
• Nat'l Academy Press, New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1999), 1 Evolution of Cor

Web Links referred to in Chapter 10, Further Reading

•  A Summary for Policy Makers and a Technical Summary for each of the three IPCC 2001 volumes - together with a variety of background  papers - can be downloaded from the IPCC web site at http://www.ipcc.ch/
•  DeCanio et al. (2000), with website at http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/directions.cfm
•  Weyant (2000), with web site at http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/econ_introduction.cfm
•  Petsonk et al. (1999), with web site at http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/pol_market.pdf
•  Edmonds et al (1999) with web site at http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/econ_emissions.cfm
•  UK Emissions Trading Group: This link is no longer active; an alternative site, for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, is available at www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/trading/index.htm