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Our Planet, May 2010

Description: Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to the economic importance of biodiversity and how protecting or restoring habitats can significantly reduce the costs in a variety of industries and infrastructures.
Date: May 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group Final Report

Description: Final report of the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group providing information gathered in relation to their charge, which included analysis of existing and proposed actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, review of historic and forecast emissions as a baseline for progress, and an overview of costs and benefits of recommended options.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Carbon Forestry Projects in Developing Countries: Legal Issues and Tools

Description: Paper outlining basic legal issues related to international forestry carbon projects. It includes introductory and legal background information, pre-implementation issues and activities, and a sample contract and annotated hypothetical project description, as well as a bibliography of relevant sources.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Davis, Patsy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Coral Bleaching and Marine Protected Areas

Description: Proceedings of a workshop to discuss coral reef research, monitoring, and marine protected area (MPA) management. It includes workshop summary information, specific papers presented during the event, and relevant appendixes.
Date: September 2001
Creator: Salm, Rod & Coles, Steve L.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications

Description: Report describing sea-level rise and the associated flooding of coastal regions that may affect more than a quarter of the world’s population. It includes sections on atmospheric and ocean circulation feedbacks, ice sheets and sea-level rise feedbacks, marine and land carbon cycle feedbacks, and methane hydrate feedbacks.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sommerkorn, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change

Description: This paper seeks to place the issue of climate change within an international context. Specifically, it addresses the feasibility of forging treaty agreements among countries to achieve significant worldwide reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
Date: June 1994
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geologic Processes at the Land Surface

Description: A report about erosion, deposition, soil formation, and water flow. It discusses hazards such as landslides, dust storms, floods, topsoil loss, ecosystem change, water contamination, and soil contamination.
Date: 1996
Creator: Wilshire, Howard G.; Howard, Keith A.; Wentworth, Carl M. & Gibbons, Helen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Procedural Review of EPA's Greenhouse Gases Endangerment Finding Data Quality Processes

Description: This report discuss the findings of whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed key federal and Agency regulations and policies in developing and reviewing the technical data used to make and support its greenhouse gases endangerment finding.
Date: September 26, 2011
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Inspector General.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects

Description: A report that focuses on why climate change matters. It addresses impacts that have already occurred and risks of future impacts, especially the way those risks change with the amount of climate changes that cannot be avoided.
Date: 2014
Creator: Field, Christopher B. & Barros, Vicente R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Search for Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Patterns in Select Proxy Data with a Goal to Understanding Temperature Variation

Description: In this work over 200 temperature proxy data sets have been analyzed to determine if periodic and or quasi-periodic patterns exist in the data sets. References to the journal articles where data are recorded are provided. Chapter 1 serves an introduction to the problem of temperature determination in providing information on how various proxy data sources are derived. Examples are given of the techniques followed in producing proxy data that predict temperature for each method used. In chapte… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Otto, James (James Robert)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2012

Description: This report presents twenty six indicators to help readers better understand observed trends related to the causes and effects of climate change. This document updates a report published by the EPA in 2010.
Date: December 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic Climate Forcer

Description: This assessment report presents the results of the 2015 AMAP Assessment of Methane as an Arctic climate forcer. This is the first AMAP assessment dealing with this issues and complements a second assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone as Arctic climate forcers.
Date: 2005
Creator: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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