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General

• Joint Declaration - Canadian and U.S. environment groups to work in partnership on climate issues
  
  
• Northern Voices in the Global Climate
  
  
• Climate Justice
  
  
• Budget 2009: Resources and Sites
  
  
• Election 2008: Resources and Sites
  
  
• A Climate Change Primer
  
  
• Climate Change Action Report Card 2007 - New England and Eastern Canada
  
  
• Special Edition - Corporate Knights: The War on Global Warming (pdf, 700K)
  
  
• Bill C-30 Backgrounder and Briefs to the Committee, February 2007
  
  
• Science and Impacts of Climate Change
  
  VIdeo and audio clips of the January 2007 Technical Briefing
  
  
• Letters to the Editors
  
  Commentaries on the Harper government's plans to deal with air pollution and climate change
  
  
• Letters to the Feds
  
  Letters to federal politicians on the Harper government's plans to deal with air pollution and climate change
  
  
• Stephen Harper talks Kyoto Accord
  
  
• Climate Change Personal Action Chart
  
  
• Review: Taking up the Monbiot challenge to chill a heating planet
  
  
• Video - Ontario Demolishes a Coal Plant (but ramps up Nuclear)
  
  

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports

• Background - United Nations Climate Panel Issues Strongest Warnings Yet
  
  
• Climate Change 2007: Summary for Policymakers (Synthesis Report - Draft)
  
  
• Climate Change 2007: Summary for Policymakers (Mitigation of Climate Change)
  
  
• Climate Change 2007: Summary for Policymakers (Adaptation and Vulnerability)
  
  
• Climate Change 2007: Summary for Policymakers (The Physical Science Basis)
  
  
• Climate Change 2001: Summary for Policymakers (Synthesis Report)
  
  

International Development

• Statement on Climate Change, International Development & Equity
  
  
• Statement on Climate Change, International Development & Equity (pdf document)
  
  

Emission and Offset Issues

• CAN Canada paper on mandatory reporting of GHG emissions
  
  
• CANet Report and Recommendations - Implement Kyoto Conference, May, 2003
  
  
• Kyoto and Beyond: The Low-Emission Path to Innovation and Efficiency
  
  
• CAN memo to NRCAN in follow-up to the March 2004 Emissions Trading Workshop
  
  
• Climate Action Network Canada's perspective on the role of "offset" credits in Canada's covenants and emissions trading system for large industrial emitters
  
  
• Submission to the Offsets Consultations, July 2003
  
  

Climate-Friendly Technologies

• UNFCCC Sustainable Development Technology page
  
  

UN Climate Change Conferences

• 2010 - Cancún
• 2009 - Copenhagen
• 2008 - Poznan
• 2007 - Bali
  
• 2006 - Nairobi
  
• 2005 - Montreal