- Breathing Earth
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Artist David Bleja displays the globe's CO2 emission rates alongside each country's birth and death rates -- all in real-time.
www.breathingearth.net
- Kyoto Protocol@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Treaties__Pacts__and_Agreements/Kyoto_Protocol
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Cooperative effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region.
www.rggi.org
- IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme
Mitigation information as well as the science of global warming. Includes programme conference listings and publications.
www.ieagreen.org.uk
- Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Official environment energy-related emissions data and environmental analyses from the U.S. government. Find U.S. carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions data and other greenhouse gas reports.
www.eia.doe.gov/environment.html
- GreenHouse Gas Online
Dedicated to greenhouse gas science, it highlights greenhouse gas news, research, resources, and related issues such as global warming.
www.ghgonline.org
- World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU)
The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD countries to purchase project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
carbonfinance.org
- NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme (GGAS)
One of the first mandatory greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes in the world, GGAS aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of electricity.
www.greenhousegas.nsw.gov.au
- U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports
This EPA report presents estimates by the U.S. government of U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the years 1990 through 2005.
epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html
- Greenhouse Gas - The Encyclopedia of Earth
Brief article addressing the rapid increase in atmospheric concentrations of the three main human-made greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide -- since the Industrial Revolution.
www.eoearth.org/article/Greenhouse_gas
- Emissions Trading and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
International Energy Agency site offers papers, workshops, and information on related trading programs. Discuses how emissions trading is a way of introducing flexibility into a system where participants have to meet emissions targets.
www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/keyresult.asp?KEYWORD_ID=4124
- World Resources Institute - Climate, Energy & Transport
Collection of reports on global technology deployment to stabilize emissions, agriculture and greenhouse gas mitigation, climate science discoveries, and renewable energy.
www.wri.org/climate/publications.cfm
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions - U.S. EPA
Find an overview of what greenhouse gases are and read the online copy of the in-depth report 2009 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks.
epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/index.html
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