Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest, and most effective environmental organization. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
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Sierra Club
Date:2001
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The Henry L. Stimson Center
The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a combination of analysis and outreach. The Center's stated approach is pragmatic ― seeking to provide policy alternatives, solve problems, and overcome obstacles towards a more peaceful and secure world. Stimson seeks to offer decision-makers pragmatic solutions and policy-relevant information and analysis. The Center focuses on challenges such…
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Henry L. Stimson Center
Date:2001
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Greenpeace International
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 40 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded by Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists in 1971, Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing,…
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Greenpeace International
Date:2001
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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Website of the Pan American Health Organization addressing the H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
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Pan American Health Organization
Date:2001
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin informs the public and influences policy through in-depth analysis, op-eds, and reports on nuclear weapons, climate change, nuclear energy, and biosecurity. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Organization)
Date:2001
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MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS)
The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) addresses fundamental questions about the environment and climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Center for Global Change Science
Climate Central
Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on climate change and energy issues, and produces multimedia content that is distributed via their website and media partners. Climate Central has been featured in many prominent U.S. news sources, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, Reuters,…
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Climate Central, Inc
Date:2010
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xkcd
"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language," xkcd often features a recurring cast of stick figures as well as numerous pop culture references. The comic won a Hugo award in 2014 for Best Graphic Story, and has been nominated for numerous additional awards. Website. electronic | Electronic (Form).
The Climate Reality Project
The Climate Reality Project is a non-profit organization involved in education and advocacy related to climate change. The project was established in July 2011 after the joining of two environmental groups, The Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, which were both founded in 2006 by Al Gore. Among its activities, The Climate Reality Project hosts an annual event called 24 Hours of…
UN Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC)
"The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average…
GlobalChange.gov | U.S. Global Change Research Program
The United States Global Change Research Program or USGCRP coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the global environment and their implications for society. The program began as a presidential initiative in 1989 and was codified by Congress through the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606), which called for "a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the…
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U.S. Global Change Research Program
Date:2000
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Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
"The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a grouping of twenty countries: fifteen Member States and five Associate Members. It is home to approximately sixteen million citizens, 60% of whom are under the age of 30, and from the main ethnic groups of Indigenous Peoples, Africans, Indians, Europeans, Chinese, Portuguese and Javanese. The Community is multi-lingual; with English as the major language complemented by French and…
EarthRights International / ERI
NAR: n97924378. The world’s most vulnerable communities are those living between its most valuable resources and its most powerful global elites. Today, millions of people on or near those resources are facing violence, exploitation, and an end to their traditional ways of life. They are forced from their homes, tortured, and even killed in the name of development. Their lands, water, and livelihoods are…