SITIOS EN LAS INTERNET (en inglés)

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(Las direcciones de Internet que aparecen en este número se han actualizado el 30 de septiembre de 1998.)

ATMOSPHERE & CLIMATE
EcoNet, a division of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), is an Internet network of non-government organizations that deal with a wide range of environmental issues. The section "Atmosphere & Climate" provides links to climate policy; climate research; acid rain, air quality & ozone depletion, among others.

CLIMATE CHANGE
This section of USIA's Environment Home Page offers annotated links to U.S. government policy documents, laws and international agreements related to climate change, and other useful sites.

CLIMATE CHANGE 1995: THE IPCC SECOND ASSESSMENT REPORT
The 2,000 page-report, released in March 1995, offers the best evidence yet collected on climate change. This site offers a synthesis report, three summaries for policymakers, and order forms for the complete text.

CLIMATE CRISIS
This section of the Greenpeace web site offers the "ABCs" of climate change, scientific material, and international agreements texts.

CLIMATE DIAGNOSTICS CENTER
Maintained by the U.S. National Oceans and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), the Climate Diagnostics Center has a mission "to identify the nature and causes for climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries. The goal of this work is to develop the ability to predict important climate variations on these time scales."

CO₂ BRIEFING
The site is managed by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), an international association of municipalities, and outlines problems and solutions for cities faced with the possibilities of climate change.

GLOBAL CHANGE MAGAZINE
Published by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security (Oakland, California), this electronic magazine "seeks to familiarize the public with the issues associated with climate change and ozone depletion." In addition to brief articles written for general audiences, Global Change provides direct links to information sources elsewhere on the Internet.

INDEX TO CLIMATE CHANGE FACT SHEETS
This site links to more than 90 fact sheets on aspects of climate change ranging from "the role of greenhouse gases" to "Methane emissions from the disposal of livestock waste and is "compiled by the Information Unit on Climate Change, an office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC)
The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess the most up-to-date scientific, technical, and socio-economic research in the field of climate change.

NASA MISSION TO PLANET EARTH
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mission to Planet Earth is studying how our global environment is changing. Using the unique perspective available from space, NASA is observing, monitoring and assessing large-scale environmental processes, with an emphasis on climate change. These data, which NASA is distributing to researchers worldwide, are essential to humans making informed decisions about protecting their environment.

POLICY ASPECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Compiled by scientists at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Studies, this collection of essays considers various appropriate responses at local, regional, national, and international levels to climate change.

UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE
Scientific and policy aspects of climate change are addressed in this site, maintained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
This site contains public information materials produced by the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Information Unit for Conventions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FACT SHEET ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
The document, released in March 1995, outlines the U.S. government's official policy on climate change.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FACT SHEET ON THE U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE PROPOSAL
This fact sheet, released in January 1997, presents the U.S. government's official policy on confronting climate change.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE: 1997 CLIMATE ACTION REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS
The text of the 1997 Submission of the United States of America Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

THE U.S. GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM
Comprising 18 departments and agencies of the U.S. government, the USGCRP has been working since 1989 to better understand natural and human-induced changes in the Earth's environment. Its Internet site offers technical data and analysis on numerous issues related to climate change.

Cuestiones Mundiales
Publicación Electrónica del USIS, Vol. 2, No. 2, Abril de 1997