Paris Climate Talks

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• ​As many of you probably know, the periodic global climate change negotiations have begun again, this time in Paris.  This round of talks is formally called the Conference of Parties 21 or COP 21 < http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21 >.  The "parties" are those countries that signed the UNFCCC, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change < http://newsroom.unfccc.int/ >, which was adopted at the 1992 Rio "Earth Summit." < http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html >  
  

• In MMDGI's Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives (ESPPA) < http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/lamont/collections/environment/index.cfm >, we hold the papers of Maurice Strong, who was the UN Secretary General for the Earth Summit.
  

• Here is CNN's take on the start of the meetings: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/europe/france-paris-cop21-climate-change-conference/ 
  

• The best news source for climate talks, however, is probably IISD Reporting Services < http://www.iisd.ca/ >, a.k.a. Linkages or Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a nonprofit that hires postdocs and such to do reporting from the meetings.  You can find that link and other news sources for environment here: http://harvard.v1.libguides.com/content.php?pid=193758&sid=1624362  
• Finally, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) has published a web bibliography regarding COP21, appended below.  More on Harvard's OECD general collections here: http://guides.library.harvard.edu/igo/oecd .

George

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OECD bibliography on climate change negotiations:

"Subject: COP 21

Please note that we are featuring a bibliography of OECD materials on the environment at OECD-iLibrary, our organization’s home page and a special site.

·        OECD iLibrary home page

·        Selected OECD bibliography

The bibliography is also referenced on a special site at http://www.oecd.org/environment/cop21.htm. "