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Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage
IPCC, 2005.
ISBN 92-9169-119-4
This report was produced by IPCC on the invitation of UNFCCC.

Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System
IPCC, 2005.
ISBN 92-9169-118-6
This report was produced by IPCC and the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) on the invitation of UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol.

Climate Change and Biodiversity
IPCC, 2002. IPCC Technical Paper V, 77p.
ISBN 92-9169-104-7
This is a Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared in response to a request from the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

IPCC Third Assessment Report: Climate Change 2001
Vol. I - Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis - January 2001
Vol. II - Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability - February 2001
Vol. III - Climate Change 2001: Mitigation - March 2001
Vol. IV - Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report - September 2001

Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer
IPCC Special Report, 2000.
Bert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Jan-Willem Martens, Sascha Van Rooijen and Laura Van Wie Mcgrory (Eds.) - Cambridge University Press, UK. 432p.
Available from Cambridge University Press
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, 2000. 8p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in English, French, Spanish and Russian.

Emissions Scenarios
IPCC Special Report , 2000.
Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Rob Swart (Eds.) - Cambridge University Press, UK. 570p.
Available from Cambridge University Press
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, 2000. 20p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in English, French, Spanish and Russian.

Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry
IPCCSpecial Report, 2000.
Robert T. Watson, Ian R. Noble, Bert Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, David J. Verardo and David J. Dokken (Eds.) - Cambridge University Press, UK. 375p.
Available from Cambridge University Press
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, 2000. 20p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in English, French, Spanish and Russian.

Climate Change
WMO/UNEP, 1995.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Second Assessment Report. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Vital Climate Graphics
UNEP, 2005.
Vital Climate Change Graphics was first published in 2000 by UNE) and GRID-Arendal. This updated edition, launched in February 2005, is based on the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC that was published in 2001.

Emmission Tradings: Climate Change Working Group Statement by UNEP Finance Initiative
UNEP, 2003. Released at UNFCCC COP 9.
CCWG Emissions Trading CEO Briefing.
The report is available for download in pdf format.

Climate change and Winter Sports: Environmental and Economic Threats
IOC/UNEP, 2003.
Rolf Bürki, Hans Elsasser, Bruno Abegg. 5th World Conference on Sport and Environment, Turin 2-3 December 2003.

Climate Change and the Financial Services Industry: Module 1 & 2
UNEP, 2002.
Prepared by the UNEP FI Climate Change Working Group, July 2002.
The study shows why climate change is relevant to the financial services industry and explains the need for long-term, market-based, frameworks to foster finance sector participation.
Module 1 - 432 Kb
Module 2 - 276 Kb

The Asian Brown Cloud: Climate and other Environmental Impacts
UNEP RRC.AP, 2002.
ISBN: 92-807-2240-9.
Report commissioned by UNEP and prepared by the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4).
It is a seven-year study by 200 scientists indicating that the "Asian Brown Cloud" reduces the amount of solar radiation reaching the ground, leading to a drop in crop productivity, as well as trapping heat, altering rainfall and causing deadly respiratory diseases.

Protecting the Ozone Layer. The United Nations History
Stephen O Andersen and K Madhava Sarma (UNEP), 2002. 513p.
ISBN 1853839051
This book tells the story of the ozone layer and how the Montreal Protocol averted a grave threat to the whole of humanity through the destruction of this layer.

Key GHG data
UNFCCC, 2005.
In this publication UNFCCC confirms that developed countries, taken as a group, have achieved sizable emission reductions. Compared to the 1990 levels, overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of these countries were down 5.9% in 2003. But the secretariat warns that further efforts are required to sustain these reductions and to cut the emissions further.

National Communications from Parties Included in Annex I to the Convention Compilation and Synthesis of Third National Communications
FCCC/SBI, 2003.
This is the executive summary of the compilation and synthesis report on third national communications from Annex I Parties. It summarizes information presented in the other parts of the report (FCCC/SBI/2003/7/Add.1–4). This document provides an overview of trends in greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1990–2000, highlights major policies and measures of Annex I Parties, presents an overview of projections of emissions and covers other information provided by Parties in their national communications.

Protection of the Atmosphere - Report of the Secretary General
E/CN.17/2001/PC/12, 2001.
Prepared by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme as task managers for chapter 9 of Agenda 21, with contributions from other United Nations agencies and international organizations.

Climate change and human health - risks and responses
WHO, 2003. 250p..
ISBN 92 4 156248 X
This book, published by WHO in collaboration with UNEP and WMO, describes the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector.

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (executive summary)
WMO/UNEP, 2002.
It contains the most up-to-date understanding of ozone depletion and reflects the thinking of 250 international scientific experts who contributed to its preparation and review. The full report is being prepared for publication. Printed copies will be available in April 2003.

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion
WMO, 1998. WMO Ozone Report No. 44.
The Executive Summary is summarized under Ozone depletion on the Emerging Issues page for Agenda 21 Chapter 9.

Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion
UNEP, 1997.
Interim Summary issued by the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, Nairobi.

Carbon, Forests and People: Towards the integrated management of carbon sequestration, the environment and sustainable livelihoods
IUCN/UNEP, 2002.
IUCN and UNEP outline a set of strategies and approaches aimed at ensuring that forests and other land-use climate change mitigation measures deliver sustainable development benefits in an equitable and cost-effective manner.
A press release is also available in pdf format.

Climate Change and the Forest Sector - Possible National and Subnational Legislation
FAO, 2004. FAO Forestry Paper 144, 76p.
ISBN: 925105200X
This publication examines the development of international law of climate change and discusses issues that national and subnational legislative bodies may have to consider regarding climate change mitigation and forests.

Urban Air Quality Managment: Coordinating Transport, Environment and Energy Policies in Developing countries
Worldbank , 2001. 64p.

Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate
WRI (Kevin A. Baumert with Odile Blanchard, Silvi Llosa and James Perkaus), 2002.
ISBN: 1-56973-524-7
WRI report stresses need to bridge the gap between rich and poor countries to protect climate.

Climate Change Mitigation in developing countries: Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey
William Chandler, Roberto Schaeffer, Zhou Dadi, P.R. Shukla, Fernando Tudela, Ogunlade Davidson, Sema Alpan-Atamer, 2002.
For each of the six countries, the report profiles energy and emissions sources, identifies measures contributing to climate mitigation, and evaluates the potential for future mitigation.

• 1994 Report of the Halon Fire Extinguishing Agents Technical Options Committee
• 1994 Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel - 1995 Assessment
• 1994 Report of the Aerosols Sterilants and Miscellaneous Uses and Carbon Tetrachloride Technical Options Committee
• 1994 Report of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
• 1994 Report of the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
• 1994 Report of the Flexible and Rigid Foams Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
• 1994 Report of the Solvents, Coatings and Adhesives Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
• Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Part I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, March 1996 Report
• UNEP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vol. I & II, April 1997 Report
  Issued by the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, Nairobi.