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Category: Climate and climate change
Project: The REDD Desk
Organizations: Global Canopy Programme, Woods Hole Research Center
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: The REDD Desk is a collaborative platform for REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Sections of the website include: REDD Basics, an introduction to REDD; Little REDD Book, a non-technical guide to the United Nations negotiations on REDD; WikiREDD, a platform for knowledge-sharing; Resource Desk, a collection of relevant documents and multimedia; and news. There is also a section on the Readiness Forum, which was established in 2008 to help REDD stakeholders build capacity and increase South-South dialogue, information exchange, and collaboration and consensus-building on the implementation of readiness activities.
Project: Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)
Organizations: Island Press, EcoAdapt
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) website features comprehensive in-depth information and resources related to climate change adaptation. The project's goal is to build a shared knowledge base for managing natural systems in the face of rapid climate change, and is intended to support individuals interested in developing climate change adaptation projects by vetting and organizing the best information available, building an online community, creating a directory of practitioners to share knowledge and strategies, and identifying and explaining data tools and information available on other websites. CAKE includes a collection of case studies of on-the-ground adaptation projects and a "virtual library" of literature and information focusing on adaptation.
Project: ConservationTraining.org
Organizations: Rainforest Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, and The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: As 20 percent of global carbon emissions come from deforestation, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD, is a crucial component to reducing and mitigating climate change. ConservationTraining.org offers a free, interactive online course that presents a comprehensive introduction and background on REDD. The course is global in scale and is comprised of 14 lessons divided into four modules: 1) Background on Climate Change, 2) International Considerations, 3) National Considerations, and 4) Project Considerations.
Project: Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA)
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) is a partnership between companies, NGOs and research institutions that has developed voluntary standards for evaluating carbon sequestration projects that minimize climate change, support sustainable development, and conserve biodiversity. Each project is evaluated by a third-party auditor that uses specific indicators to determine if the necessary criteria are satisfied. The project's Web site features information about its members and advising institutions; its goals and objectives; a link to the standards in PDF format, available in English, Spanish, French, and Chinese; and information about how the projects are evaluated. Finally, the Web site features a list of projects currently using the CCB standards, links to each project's design documents in PDF format, and allows users to submit comments about each project.
Project: Climate Hot Map
Organization: Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, United States Public Interest Research Group, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund
Language: English
Country/Region: Global
Summary: Global warming is a hot topic, and this site attempts to define the local impacts of global warming and the impending consequences of climate change. Users may click on icons pitched on regional maps of the world and retrieve clear explanations of the effects of unusually warm weather under two categories: "fingerprints" and "harbingers." According to the Web site and projected by models of a changing climate, "fingerprints" are direct outcomes of a widespread and long-term trend toward warmer global temperatures and "harbingers" identify events that foreshadow the types of impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming. The site's "Hotspot Selection Criteria" defines the organizations' methodology of choosing and displaying the impacts. A PDF version is available of a world map with icons that symbolize the impacts of global warming, i.e. coral reef bleaching, spreading disease, and droughts and fires. The site's section of "Impacts of Climate Change in the United States," added in November 2000, explores regions and sectors of the environment such as agriculture, human health, and coastal areas. The site also provides a list of almost 90 references to consult for supplemental information on climate change. Educators may access a curriculum guide to the Climate Impacts Map and download activities for the classroom.
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