provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), summarizing thousands of pages of scientific reports into a readable 26 page synopsis of the current scientific consensus regarding climate change (pdf)

A report on the economics of climate change and development to the UK Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government (pdf)

a report by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, commissioned by Friends of the Earth and the Cooperative Bank, that presents new findings about the scale of emission reductions needed and about pathways to a low-carbon future (pdf)

detailed profile of geothermal energy sector in the UK from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (pdf)

report concludes current and future agrofuel technologies are a key direct and indirect cause of global deforestation, and thus contribute to climate change as well as to loss of livelihoods (pdf)

joint report by Corporate Watch and FASE, Brazil, about the disastrous impacts of tree monocultures planted in Brazil under 'sustainable forestry' schemes, accompanied by the use of carbon credits (pdf)

a shopper's guide to home tissue products (pdf)

a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency that highlights why the UK must legislate against trade in illegal timber (pdf)

a report by CEESP and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples' Links looking at the massive environmental damage and the serious human rights abuses linked to the mining industry in the Philippines (pdf)

report details the environmental destruction which results from soy monocultures in Paraguay, as well as human rights abuses against local and indigenous people, and also provides a critique of the Round Table for Sustainable Soy model promoted by WWF (pdf)

a UNEP report which details the state of emergency in Indonesia's National Parks including illegal logging, fire and oil palm (pdf)

report from UNEP that examines major challenges in the Pacific Islands region in adjusting, with limited resources, to the responses of coastal ecosystems to climate-change-induced rise of sea levels (pdf)

Wetlands International presentation on the destruction of Indonesia's peatlands and the impact on global warming and on biodiversity, freshwater supplies, and local communities (pdf)

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)

report on the campaign to move the banking sector from promises to performance in regard to supporting sustainable development (pdf)