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March 2008

Flags for the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference
Flags for the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference outside the Bali International Convention Centre.
Credit: openDemocracy

This month Earthscape highlights conferences addressing climate change and sustainable development. The United Nations held its thirteenth annual Climate Change Conference in Bali from December 3 to 14, 2007, with sessions on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Earth Institute at Columbia University convened its fifth biennial State of the Planet Conference in New York City on March 27 and 28, 2008. The conference covered sustainable development issues including poverty eradication, natural resources and conflict, global public health, energy solutions for the future, and climate change in the Arctic.

We have also updated our collection of publications from the Environmental Change and Security Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The program explores the impact of environmental degradation, resource scarcity, population pressures, and public health on conflict and foreign policy.

March 2008 Additions to Earthscape

Navigating Peace Policy Brief No. 4: Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Lessons From the Nile River Basin

Technologies for adaptation to climate change

Report of the Conference of the Parties on its thirteenth session, held in Bali from 3 to 15 December 2007. Part One: Proceedings.

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State of the Planet 2008
Hosted by the Earth Institute at Columbia University
March 27–28, 2008, New York City

United Nations Climate Change Conference
December 3–14, 2007, Bali, Indonesia

 

Educational Resources

Feeling the Heat
From the UNFCCC secretariat, this guide provides an introduction to climate change and how the international community is responding to it.

Glossary of climate change acronyms
This glossary provides a reference for readers of UNFCCC documents.

 

From the Earthscape Archives

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Handbook

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

Understanding Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation

Global Population and Water: Access and Sustainability

Analysing Our Energy Future