Reference

Guidance Documents | UNFCCC Documents | IPCC Documents

Guidance Documents

• MERVC Reports – Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Climate Change Mitigation Projects– Methodologies and Guidelines.

• States Guidance Document – Policy Planning To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,Second Edition(1998, EPA 230-B-98-002).

• Partnerships and Progress (1.1M pdf)– EPA State and Local Climate Change Program, 2001 Progress Report (2001, EPA #430-R-02-002).

Framework Convention Documents

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – The landmark international treaty unveiled at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Summit) in June 1992.

• Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – Text from the UNFCCC Third Conference of the Parties (FCCC/CP/1997/L.7/Add.1; 10 December 1997).

• Methodological Issues: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (67K pdf) – Report on the second SBSTA workshop on land-use, land-use change and forestry – prepared by the UNFCCC Secretariat for the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (FCCC/SBSTA/1999/INF.5; 26 May 1999).

IPCC Documents & Special Reports

• IPCC Third Assessment Report: Contributions of IPCC Working Groups (2001). Summaries for Policymakers and Technical Summaries from the three Working Group reports:

Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis (2001). Summary for Policymakers (323K pdf) from the Working Group I report. Technical Summary (2029K pdf)

Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2001).Summary for Policymakers (153K pdf) from the Working Group II report. Technical Summary (423K pdf)

Climate Change 2001: Mitigation (2001). Summary for Policymakers (374K pdf) from the Working Group III report., Technical Summary (797K pdf)

The complete, unabridged reports on Science, Impacts and Mitigation are now available on-line at the IPCC website.

• Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer. (2000). A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Bert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Jan-Willem Martens, Sascha Van Rooijen, and Laura Van Wie Mcgrory (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 432.–Summary for Policymakers (339k pdf). Emissions Scenarios (2000).

• Emissions Scenarios (2000). A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Rob Swart (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 570. – Summary for Policymakers (1.2M pdf)

• Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (2000). A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Robert T. Watson, Ian R. Noble, Bert Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, David J. Verardo and David J. Dokken (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 375.– Summary for Policymakers (348k pdf).

• Aviation and the Global Atmosphere (1999). A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Groups I and III in collaboration with the Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. J.E. Penner, D.H. Lister, D.J. Griggs, D.J. Dokken, M. McFarland (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 373. – Summary for Policymakers (333k pdf).

• The Regional Impacts of Climate Change– An Assessment of Vulnerability (1998). A special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II. R.T. Watson, M.C. Zinyowera, and R.H. Moss (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 517.
  – The IPCC Regional Impacts report's Summary for Policymakers, Introduction, North America chapter, and selected Annexes are available on the IPCC site .

• IPCC Second Assessment Report: Climate Change 1995 (1995). A Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. R.T. Watson, M.C. Zinyowera, and R.H. Moss (Eds). IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. pp 64. The report includes: the IPCC Second Assessment Synthesis of Scientific-Technical Information Relevant to Interpreting Article 2 of the UNFCCC and the following Summaries for Policymakers from the three Working Group reports.

The Science of Climate Change (1995). Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callender, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K. Maskell (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 572.– Summary for Policymakers from the Working Group I report.

Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses (1995). Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. R.T. Watson, M.C. Zinyowera, R.H. Moss (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 878. – Summary for Policymakers from the Working Group II report.

Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change (1995). Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.P. Bruce, H. Lee, E.F. Haites (Eds). Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 448. – Summary for Policymakers from the Working Group III report.