Global Warming: a comparative guide to the EU and the US and their approaches to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

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Guide by Deborah Paulus-Jagric, Reference Librarian for Educational Services at New York University Law School Library, updated by Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Published on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, the guide gives background and historical information on the Convention and Protocol, with references and links to printed and online material. There are sections dealing with the records of successive US administrations regarding climate change, and of US states, businesses and environmental organisations. The guide covers the EU's implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the UNFCCC and provides guidance on finding EU documents on the subject; it also addresses the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the integrated European Energy Policy and work done by EU member states. Links are given to online scientific resources relating to global climate change; there is a bibliography of books and articles, together with links to websites and blogs.

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