Australian Parliament House - Email your concerns to MPs and senators
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency - Official Australian government site on climate change
Garnaut Climate Change Review - An independent study conducted by economist Professor Ross Garnaut, commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory governments in 2007
CSIRO - Climate change site of Australia's leading scientific research establishment
Bureau of Meteorology - Agency responsible for recording Australia's climate data
The White House - Email your concerns to the US PresidentNOAA - The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is federal agency for climate information
IPCC - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change and its potential environmental and socioeconomic consequences
UNFCC - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the international treaty aimed at reducing global warming. It was under this convention that the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, was signed. A meeting of the convention to discuss what will replace the Kyoto Protocol is scheduled for Mexico in December 2010 (COP 16).
Real Climate - My preferred independent source for climate science
James Hansen - Leading climatologist
Skeptical Science - This global site, maintained by an Australian, examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism
How to Talk to a Climate Change Skeptic - Another excellent site
Contraction and Convergence - The leading model for distributing emissions rights between nations on a per-capita basis is the proposed international framework called "Contraction and Convergence." Formulated in the U.K. by the Global Commons Institute. To meet their emissions targets, individual nations would need market mechanisms like those listed below.
The Climate Justice Project - A UK based student-led campaign for contraction and convergence.
Cap and Trade - Otherwise known as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), this is the oldest and most well known mechanism for reducing emissions. The national emission target is auctioned to large producers of greenhouse gases. Emission rights can then be traded between these producers.
Cap and Dividend - This is another approach to controlling climate change. Formulated by U.S. think tank On The Commons, it also is based on per-capita emissions rights, but these are used to limit the production of fossil fuels rather than to monitor emissions as these fuels are consumed.
Cap and Share - Similar to Cap and Dividend, this scheme is promoted by the Irish environmental group Fiesta. Cap and Share distributes emission rights to individuals as vouchers, which they sell to producers of fossil fuels.
Tax and 100% Dividend - Climatologist James Hansen proposes the "carbon tax and 100 percent dividend" solution, which involves levying a tax on carbon - then redistributing the entire proceeds of the tax to the affected population, on an equal basis.
The Climate Institute - An independent Australian research and education organisation
Al Gore's Climate Project - The Climate Project supports more than 3,000 diverse and dedicated volunteers worldwide who have been personally trained by former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore to educate the public and to raise awareness about climate change.
The 350 Campaign - An international network promoting the message that the atmospheric CO2 concentration needs to be reduced to 350 ppm in order to protect our environment.
Oil - Not Exactly Dead Dinosaurs - Information for students on the origin, economic use and environmental problems of fossil fuels.(submitted by a class of students in the USA)