There is a lot of information on the internet that discusses climate change, unfortunately much of this information is partial or completely misleading.  Below are a collection of web resources that provide relatively clear, and accurate information on climate change science, human impacts, mitigation and adaptation, and the policy and treat process.

We hope that this information can be used to enrich and inform Conservation Ecology's Young Scholar Dialogue.

The UK's Global Climate Change Information Programme provides a series of On-Line Fact Sheets on global climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), recently published the results of its second assessment of climate change.  Its reports are summarized on the internet.  This assessment is divided into three loosely connected working groups on: the science of climate change, the impacts, adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and the economic and social dimensions of climate change.  These summaries are all text.  Flipping through the actual reports is more informative than these summaries, but they do provide an overview.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) provides a beginner's guide to the framwork.

The USA's Initiative on Joint Implementation (JI) maintains a web site on Joint Implementation.  Joint Implementation describes cooperative development projects that seek to reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions across national boundaries.  For example, electric utilities in the Netherlands offsetting their CO2 emissions by paying for a reforestation project in Uganda.  Joint Implementation has been included in the UNFCC.

The World Resources Institute has produced a number of books on the economics of climate change, and these books are partially reproduced on the web.  Particularly interesting is a  graphical slide show that summarizes the effects of different assumptions on models of the economic impacts of climate change costs and mitigation.  This summary provides a broader context for Chris Holling's analysis of the Canadian economy.  It also has a report, "Are Developing Countries Already Doing as Much as Industrialized Countries to Slow Climate Change?", that illustrates that developing countries have done more to cut emissions than developed countries.