Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health
Organizations and Programs
Government
Regional / Municipal
Provincial
- BC Environment, What is the Conservation Framework? and Climate Change: Provincial Impacts
- Government of Ontario, Ministry of Natural Resources, Climate Change and Biodiversity
Government of Canada
International
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Climate Change and Biodiversity: Our Work and Carbon, biodiversity & ecosystem services: exploring co-benefits.
- UNEP, Convention on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Biodiversity
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Climate Change and Species and Changing the Climate Forecast
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Climate Change Strategy
Private Sector
Non-Profit, Academia or Research Institute
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Carbon, energy & climate
- Birdlife International, Climate Change
- University of California – Santa Barbara, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Ecological Effects of Climate Change
- Climate Institute, Ecosystems and Wildlife
Reports & Publications
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems: Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2 (2009).
- Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia, A New Climate for Conservation: Nature, Carbon and Climate Change in British Columbia (2010) and Conservation Offsets A Revenue Tool to Conserve Natural Areas, Watersheds and Community Resilience (2010).
- SFU, Adaptation to Climate Change Team, Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity – Background Report (2009) and Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity - Summary Recommendations (2009).
- FORREX, Impacts of Climate Change on British Columbia’s Biodiversity: A Literature Review (2008).
- Biodiversity BC, An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity Management in BC (2007).
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Benefit of Healthy Ecosystems (2007).
- World Bank, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Climate Change: The Economic Problem (2010).
- UNEP, Convention on Biodiversity, Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (2010), and Forest Resilience, Climate Change and Biodiversity (2009).
- Ecological Society of America (ESA), ESA Position Statement: Ecosystem Management in a Changing Climate.
- IUCN, Species and Climate Change: More than just the Polar Bear (2010), Species Susceptibility to Climate Change Impacts (2008).
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change (2010).
- The National Academies, Ecological Impacts of Climate Change (2009).
- NOAA / U.S. Forest Service, Watching Birds, Tracking Climate (2010).
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems (2009), and The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States (2008).
- International Arctic Science Committee, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Chapter 10 - Principles of Conserving the Arctic’s Biodiversity (2010).
- Environment Canada, Occasional Paper 15 - Impacts of Climate Extremes on Biodiversity in the Americas (2009).
- WWF et al., Natural Solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change (2010).
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Moving Toward Climate Change Adaptation: The Promise of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative for addressing the Region's Vulnerabilities (2010).
