GEO 2000 - A coordinated network of Collaborating Centres is the core
of the GEO process. These centres have played an increasingly
important role in preparing GEO reports. They are now responsible
for almost all the regional inputs, thus combining top-down integrated
assessment with bottom-up environmental reporting. A number of
Associated Centres also participate, providing specialized expertise.
Four working groups ?on modelling, scenarios, policy and data
?provide advice and support to the GEO process, helping coordinate
the work of the Collaborating Centres to make their outputs as
comparable as possible. Other United Nations agencies contribute
to the GEO Process through the United Nations System-wide Earthwatch,
coordinated by UNEP. In particular, they provide substantive data
and information on the many environmentally-related issues that
fall under their individual mandates; they also help review drafts.

Global Change HomePage - Global Change seeks to familiarize the public with issues associated
with climate change and ozone depletion. Since July 1996, the
magazine has been published by the Pacific Institute for Studies
in Development, Environment, and Security (Oakland, California).

Institute for Global Communications (IGC) - The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is a nonprofit
organization that provides alternative sources of information
as well as online access and comprehensive Internet services for
progressive individuals and organizations.

NGO Steering Committee - For more information on NGO preparations on the issue of climate,
please visit the Caucus webpage. This site includes caucus statements,
the most recent being the Energy/Climate Change Global Action
Plan.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development - has prepared a summary report of the Fourth Conference of the
Parties (COP-4) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,
which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 1998.
Click on the link below to view or download this report.

United Nations Framework on Climate Change - The site provides Parties, representatives of observer organisations
and others interested in the UNFCCC process, with a one-stop source
of news, data, information and documents. Information is organised
under seven main headings: What's New, The Secretariat, Programmes,
Resources, Sessions, Media Room and Site Information.

Worldbank's Global Climate Change - The World Bank's Global Environment Division (ENVGC) has begun
applying a new analytical tool called a Global Overlay to integrate
Global Environment Externalities into the World Bank's economic
and sector work. Climate change global overlays are applied in
sectors such as energy, transport, forestry and agriculture. Similar
to a graphic overlay, which attaches a new layer to an already
existing surface, the global overlay concept adds a global dimension
to the sector studies that the Bank undertakes on a regular basis
for its client countries. Global overlays reflect a growing urgency
to integrate global concerns with national development strategies.
Climate change overlays build on the Framework Convention on Climate
Change (FCCC), which asks its signatories to "take climate change
into account, to the extent feasible, in their relevant social,
economic, and environmental policies and actions" and on the Bank's
operational policy OP 10.04, which notes that global externalities
are "normally identified in the Bank's sector work or in its environmental
assessment process".

World Resources Institute - The World Resources Institute's mission is to move human society
to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity
to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future
generations. Because people are inspired by ideas, empowered by
knowledge, and moved to change by greater understanding, WRI provides
- and helps other institutions provide - objective information
and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that
will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development.