Research Resources
Doing research on a green topic? In green.tv’s weekly news search and twitter feed we run across all kinds of great resources about green topics. From statistics to white papers to academians, here’s our Research Roll:
China Beijing Environment Exchange China’s carbon “stock” market
Clean Analysis green market research from our friends at greenbang.com
Clean Tech research and data from Cleantech Group LLC
ClimateChangeCorp research, news, and analysis from UK based agency ClimateChangeCorp.com– includes Ethical Corporation reporting and policy analysis
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
Dr. David Suzuki Foundation white papers, policy commentary, and research from the energetic Canadian environmentalist
EarthTrends the research arm of the World Resources Institute– gets our green-geek on as they’ve got whole lot of stats and a user friendly search, display, and export function
Ecologist Investigations From The Ecologist.org in depth investigations from Biochar to green economics
EIA Environmental Investigations Agency activist organisation that campaigns for the environment, but with extensive white papers and such
EIA Energy Information Administration worldwide stats on emissions (2006– found via the GuardianEco)
Environmental Working Group consumer watchdog
GreenEconomics at Oxford headed at Oxford University, a worldwide network active in 47 countries for economics related to the environment.
Greenenergy 2030 US based social networking, blog, and business alliance of green energy companies (founder @EcoFan on twitter)
IUCN Redlist International Union for Conservation of Nature endangered and threatened species search — search by scientific name
NGO’s Copenhagen Treaty from our friends at WWF, Greenpeace, and other, the guidelines for governments from advocates. Click on this link to find a dialogue, discourse, the executive summary, and full legal text.
NEF New Economics Foundation. The people that brought you the Happiness Index do important research about revaluing the economy for a more sustainable future. It is lead by Andrew Simms, of whom green.tv’s bloggess is a huge fan. Check out his books.
Panda Pocket guide to Climate Change from our friends at WWF, is as it says on the tin, a pocket guide to a new climate agreement (before you print it, ask yourself, is it necessary to have in on paper– or will your PDA suffice?)
Renewable Energy Journal useful resource about (you guessed it) renewables
Sandbag’s report on the EU ETS. Sandbag is an private, non-governmental organization run by eco-campaigner and carbon market expert Bryony Worthington.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research based at the University of Sussex– economics, physics, policy, ecology– everything but everything to do with climate change
UNFCCC Want to know what happened in Bonn, Bangkok, or Barcelona on the run up to Cop15? This is the official site for all of that. Added bonus: GHG stats, legal frameworks, and video coverage of meetings.