UN Resources

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The FAO contains facts and information about agriculture, forestry and land cover and how they affect climate.
Climpag is aimed at bringing together the various aspects and interactions between weather, climate and agriculture in the general context of food security.

Global Climate Observing System

The Global Climate Observing System addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, hydrologic, and cryospheric components.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Global Climate Observing System addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, hydrologic, and cryospheric components.
Working Group I Report: "The Physical Basis of Climate Change":
- Full report
- Summary for Policy Makers (Group I) [PDF]
Working Group II Report: "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability": Summary for Policy Makers (Group II) [PDF]
Working Group III Report: "Mitigation of Climate Change":
- Full report
- Summary for Policy Makers (Group III) [PDF]
Special Report: "Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System" [PDF]
Special Report: "Emissions Scenarios"
Special Report: "Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry"
Special Report: "Aviation and the Global Atmosphere"

International Maritime Organization

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice regularly undertakes work on methodological and scientific matters as they relate to the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol process. Some of the issues the SBSTA is currently dealing with are land use, land-use change and forestry, adaptation, mitigation, research, systematic observation and bunker fuels.
Research priorities for the scientific community (during SBSTA 17, New Delhi, October/November 2002)
Documents

United Nations Environment Programme