Another release from The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the Climate Action Report 2002, found on their Global Warming site. The report is subtitled The United States of America's Third National Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The introduction, all nine chapters, and appendixes are available for viewing and download via Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)...

This week's In The News highlights a critical international conference on climate change, the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, currently being held (November 2-13) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Convention on Climate Change, signed and ratified by over 175 countries, is one of a series of recent international agreements dedicated to...

The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP/ GRID Arendal Website (described in the June 24, 1998 Scout Report for Science & Engineering) summarizes greenhouse gas emissions for 1998 and provides projections for 2010. The maps and statistics presented here are based on data collected by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the international summit in The Hague, November...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (discussed in the October 24, 1997 Scout Report) Third Conference of the Parties (COP-3) takes place in Kyoto, Japan from December 1-10, 1997. The Official Site features the full text of the Convention (with chronological and alphabetical listing of ratifiers in the last five years), official documents in five languages from all...

The Sixth session, Part two of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 6.2) ended Friday in Bonn. Thirty-seven of the fifty-five countries needed to make the Kyoto Protocol binding have ratified the agreement. At COP 6, a number of decisions were made that "set out the rulebook by which governments will cooperate on making the Kyoto Protocol's institutions and...

President Clinton's remarks to the National Geographic Society were particularly interesting in that they were made at the time of the Bonn meeting of the UNFCCC. The UNFCCC site contains information about this meeting, along with a limited amount of information about the upcoming COP-3 meeting in December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. The site provides sections on global warming, emissions data, a large...