1. Global Climate Change: Causes and Impacts of Global Climate
Change
Master of Public Policy and Administration Program
California Lutheran University
November 11, 2001
Melanie D. Ravan
Bibliography
I. Legal References
(a) International Agreements:
1. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) http://ciesin.org/
TG/PI/POLICY/montpro.html.
2. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987)
http://ciesin.org/TG/PI/POLICY/montpro.html
3. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1994)
http://www.unfccc.de/resource/docs.html
4. The Kyoto Protocol (1997)
http://www.unfcc.de/resources/docs.html
(b) Federal Statutes:
1. The Clean Air Act (1990 Amendments), 42 U.S.C. Section 7401
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/laws.htm.
2. The United States Global Change Research Program Act (1990), 15 U.S.C. Section
2951
http://www.gcrio.org/gcact1990.html
II. Governmental Entity Studies and Reports
(a) International Entities
1. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
htpp://www.ipcc.ch/. and http://www.unfccc.org/cop6_2/convkp/index.html

2. i. “Understanding Climate Change: A Guide to the UN Framework Convention
and Kyoto Protocol”, http://www.unep.ch/iuc/
ii. IPCC Third Assessment Report, “Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/
iii. IPCC Working Group I “Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis”,
including the Policymaker’s Summary and the Technical Summary http://www.ipcc.ch/
iv. IPCC Working Group II “Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptations and
Vulnerability”, including the Policymaker’s Summary and the Technical Summary
http://www.ipcc.ch/
v. IPCC Working Group III “Climate Change 2001: Mitigation of Climate
Change”, including the Policymaker’s Summary and the Technical Summary
http://www.ipcc.ch/
(b) National Entities
1. The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works,
http://www.senate.gov/~epw/
2. The United States Global Change Research Information Office, http://www.gcrio.org/
i. The United States Global Change Research Program, National Assessment
Team, “Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of
Climate Variability and Change”, 2001.
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overview.htm.
ii. Our Changing Planet-The FY 2001 US Global Research Program
http://www.gcrio.org/usgcrp.html
3. The United States Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Site
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/emissions.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/impacts.
i. US EPA National Emissions Inventory,
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/emissions/us2001/index.html.
ii. “Global Warming and Our Changing Climate”, Office of Air and Radiation,
April 2000, EPA 430-F-00-011. http://www.epa.gov/globalwarmin/faq/index.html
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3. iii. “Climate Change Update on the Science” Dr. Joel Scheraga, National Program
Director, US GCRP, March 2001, http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/qrydetail.summary?
dsis=20261&z_chk=64068
iv. “The Ecological Consequences of Recent Climate Change”, US GCRP, US
EPA, Dr. John McCarty, April 2001, printed in Conservation Biology, Pages 320-331,
Volume 15, No. 2, April 2000
v. “Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Wetlands, Ed. J. G. Titus,
1988, Washington DC, US EPA,
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/impacts/sealevel/wetlands.html.
4. National Aeronautical and Space Administration, Goddard Institute for Space Studies
http://www.giss.nasa.gov
i. Point paper by Dr. James Hansen, Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
“The Global Warming Debate”, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate
III. Educational and Non-Profit Institutions Studies and Reports
1. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, http://www.pewclimate.org/
i. “Climate Change: Science, Strategies and Solutions”, Claussen, Ed., 2001,
ISBN 90-04-12276-1. http://www.pewclimate.org/book/index_chapter.cfm
ii. “The Science of Climate Change: Global and United States Perspectives”, Dr.
Tom M. L. Wigley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1999.
http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/env_science.cfm
iii. “Policy Maker’s Guide”, http://www.pewclimate.org/policyguide/international
iv. “Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: A Review of Potential Impacts on
United States Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity”, Dr. Jay R. Malcolm, December
2000, http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/env_ecosystems.cfm
v. “Sea Level Rise and Global Climate Change-A Review of Impacts to United
States Coasts”, Ed. J.E. Neumann, February 2000
2. World Wildlife Fund Climate Change Campaign, www.panda.org/climate.
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4. i. “Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events”, University of Amsterdam,
Institute for Environmental Studies, September 2000,
http://wwf.org/climate/climatesection.cfm?section=111.
ii. “Global Warming and Terrestrial Biodiversity Decline-Speed Kills”, Dr. Jay
Malcolm, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, August 2000,
http://panda.org/resources/publications/climate/speedkills/index3.cfm
iii. Point Paper on Analysis of the Bonn Political Agreement on the Kyoto
Protocol, July 27, 2001
3. The Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas, Climate Change Glossary
http://www.csdanet.org/English/publications/glossary.htm
4. Center for International Environmental Law, Bonn Agreement Point Paper, August
2001 http://www.ciel.org/Climate/programclimate.html
i. Center for International Environmental Law, Point Paper on Mandate of the
CoP to Adopt Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms, September 2001
5. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, “Health Sector Assessment” for the
USGCRP, 2000, http://www.jhsph.edu/nationalassessment-health/about.html
IV. For Profit Entity Studies and Reports
1. The World Bank Group, Point Paper on Recent Developments in Climate Change
Negotiations and Implications on the Carbon Market,
http://www.worldbank.org/about/organization/.
2. Cantor Fitzgerald and Price Waterhouse, Carbon Commerce (CO2E), Glossary
http://www.co2e.com/common/glossary.asp
i. Cantor Fitzgerald and Price Waterhouse, Carbon Commerce (CO2E), Science
and Technical, International Policy, and Kyoto Protocol Flexibility Mechanisms Policy
Papers http://www.co2e.com/common/
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