Montana Climate Challenge

Solutions

Featured below are links to solutions crafted at the local, regional, national and international level to combat climate change. We have also included links to websites that address global warming and other climate change issues.

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International Level
- 2007 IPCC Report ... [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website]
- NWF View - Egg Frying Weather
- Kyoto Protocol Fact Sheet (December 1997)
  - Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Document (December 1997)
National Level
- Bingaman Resolution (June 22, 2005)
- Editorial on Passage of Bingaman Resolution (June 27, 2005)
- Summary of The Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act
  (October 30, 2003)
- Summary of the Waxman Safe Climate Act (June 19, 2006)
- Summary of the Jeffords Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (July 20, 2006)
- Senator Feinstein Outlines New Legislation to Curb Global Warming, Keep Economy Strong (March 26, 2006)

Regional Level
- Global Warming - Unexpected Impacts on Montana's Economy (Summer 2007)
- Fueling the Fire: Global Warming, Fossil Fuels and the Fish and Wildlife of the American West (September 2006)
- State & Regional Programs to Address Global Warming
- Center for Climate Strategies - State Climate Action Plans (Completed since 2000; links to various western states' plans) - Center for Climate Strategies
- Western Governors' Association, Regional and National Policies Regarding Global Climate Change (June 13, 2006)
- Western Governors' Association, Transportation Fuels for the Future (June 13, 2006)
- Western Governors' Association, Policy Resolution on Clean and Diversified Energy for the West (June 11, 2006)
- Press Release - California Emissions Cap (February 16, 2006)
  - California Emissions Cap Document (74 pages - February 16, 2006)
- Alaska Climate Resolution (2006)
- Climate Change And Prairie Wetlands (October 2005)
- Climate Change Wetlands Factsheet (2006)
- Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions: Governor's Advisory Group On Global Warming (192 pages - December 2004)

Local Level
- National Wildlife Federation Solutions Fact Sheet (August 11,2006)
- Cities Working Together to Protect Our Air Quality, Health and Environment: A Call to Action (March 30, 2005)

Websites
- http://www.pewclimate.org/ and for the latest developments regionally, nationally and around the globe link to http://www.pewclimate.org/what_s_being_done/
- http://www.apolloalliance.org/
- http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
- http://www.mtclimatechange.us/
- http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/mtnclim/
- http://www.nwf.org/globalwarming/

Professional Papers
- Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildlifes? By Steven W. Running. Sciencexpress Research Article.
- Warming and Earlier Spring Increases Western U.S. Forest Wildlife Activity. By A.L. Westerling, H.G. Hidalgo, D.R. Cayan and T.W. Swetnam. Sciencexpress Research Article.
- Bibliography: Climate Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity. Prepared by Wil Burns, Co-Chair, American Society of International Law - Wildlife Interest Group
  
  This bibliography of peer-reviewed and gray literature (including journal articles, newspaper articles, reports and materials on the Internet) focuses on climate change (defined herein as global warming or ozone depletion) and its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems. Over 2013 citations have been included to date.