Climate Change Simulation:  Helpful Websites



Yahoo Global Warming Page  (highly recommended for recent newspaper articles on climate change and in particular the current state of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol)

Climate Arc (a good gateway to a wide variety of information on climate change, including news on country positions relevant to the Kyoto Protocol)

New York Times Climate Page  (highly recommended for recent articles appearing in the New York Times on the subject of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol).

Encyclopedia Britannica  (good for background information about countries)

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe  (click on NEWS and do a search for your country and articles on climate change)

Ratifications of the Kyoto Protocol  (check to see whether your country has signed and/or ratified the Kyoto Protocol)

UN-GRID Data on Emissions  (if you are representing an Annex I country check to see trends in your emissions in relation to its Kyoto limitation/reduction target)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (one of the best sites to browse; also look under "Resources" and "Library" for links to sites with country info)

The UN Secretary-General Homepage

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Greenpeace's Climate Homepage

Global Climate Coalition  (webpage of organization trade groups that oppose the Kyoto Protocol)

U.S. State Department:  Climate Change

European Union

Alliance of Small Island Nations

OPEC

Country Profiles  (Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary; also try searching through the Newswatch Archive on the site)

Environmental Sites on the Internet  (browse menu on the left; see especially "Climate" and "Global Change" links)

Permanent Missions to the United Nations  (search to see if your country has a website for its mission; often these pages will list the country's position on international issues such as global warming)

IISD Linkages  (can find info on Small Island States under the archives section of this page; also search the Earth Negotiations Bulletin for countries' positions in climate change conferences)

Australia Foreign Affairs and Trade  (Australia's official page on climate change)

The Third World Network:  Environment  (contains links to news stories concerning the positions of developing countries on climate change)

Eldis News Sources  (Links to numerous current major international newsources, including some that specialize on environmental developments)