Virtual Library

The booklet highlights the work of MSV, outlines some of the latest science trends and highlights climate-related impacts now being experienced by its members. Personal narratives and photographs from individuals in MSV countries feature prominently. Innovative maps and illustrations created for the booklet by UNEP/GRID-Arendal help to visualize climate change issues in these regions as never before.

This guide presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about the Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. This guide therefore aims to promote greater climate literacy.

The Climate Change Science Compendium is a review of some 400 major scientific contributions to our understanding of Earth Systems and climate that have been released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years, since the close of research for consideration by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

UNEP Year Book 2009's chapter on climate change discusses new science and developments in  understanding the processes and consequences of climate change. Climate Change impacts in the Arctic, as well as new insights into rising sea levels, feature prominently.

The Arctic Report card provides a series of clear, reliable and concise information on the state of the Arctic environment, relevant to historical time series records