Manitoba Wildlands' Climate Change Reports page features publications from civil society groups, including non-government organizations (NGOs), environmental NGOs (ENGOs), faith groups, labour groups, industry and educational and research institutes. Although reports may come from anywhere in the world, our focus will be on Canadian sources.
We have tried to keep categories simple and clear. Some reports could go in more than one category, so if it is not found in one category, keep looking! Each month we will feature one or two new climate change reports in our 'Featured Report' box found below.
Manitoba Wildlands does not necessarily recommend or endorse the contents of publications we list here. The source/author of the report or other material is responsible for its content, factual basis and opinion(s) expressed within.
Ecosystem Status and Trends 2010
biodivcanada.ca
This 2010 assessment is a collaborative project of the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments. It forms part of Canada’s commitment to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
 Download October 2010 Report (PDF), Website
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Climate, Carbon and Coral Reefs
World Meteorlogical Organization
This brochure summarizes the CO2 threat to coral reefs, the science support- ing projections and the solutions that are needed to prevent the loss of one of the world’s natural wonders.
Download October 2010 Report (PDF)
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Flowing Forward
WWF International
Flowing Forward recognizes that sustainability in water management has become a moving target, and is now the biggest obstacle to implementing solutions to impacts of climate change.
Download September 2010 Report (PDF)
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U.S. Agriculture & Climate Change Legislation: Markets, Myths &...
The PEW Center on Global Climate Change
This brief objectively assesses the impacts of climate legislation and identifies ways that such legislation could be shaped to provide greater opportunities for the sector. U.S. farmers have long exhibited adaptability and entrepreneurship in the face of changing circumstances.
Download July 2010 Report (PDF)
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Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production...
United Nations Environment Programme
This assessment offers a detailed problem description and analysis of the causation of environmental pressures and hence provides knowledge required for reducing environmental impacts.
Download June 2010 Report (PDF), Website
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The Economic and Employment Impacts of Climate-Related...
Conference Board of Canada
This report examines economic and employment impacts of climate-related technology investments in Canada.
Download May 2010 Report (PDF)
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The Arctic Biodiversity Trends - 2010: Selected Indicators of Change
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna International Secretariat
Report highlights that climate change is emerging as the most far-reaching and significant stressor on Arctic biodiversity, though contaminants, habitat change, industrial development and unsustainable harvest levels continue to have impacts.
Download May 2010 Report (PDF), Website
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Seasonal evolution of subglacial drainage and acceleration in a...
Bartholomew, Nienow, Mair, Hubbard, King, & Sole
Study used GPS satellite measurements of the glacier in south-west Greenland, showed the ice in some places slid 300 meters per year at peak summer rates.
Website
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A Human Health Perspective On Climate Change
The Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health (IWGCCH)
Identifies research needs to help mitigate the health impacts of climate change.
Download April 2010 Report (PDF), Website |
Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a...
National Research Council
Asserts that, unless man-made carbon dioxide emissions are substantially curbed or atmospheric carbon dioxide is controlled by some other means, oceans will continue to become more acidic.
Download April 2010 Report (PDF), Website |
The State of the Birds 2010 Report on Climate Change: United...
North American Bird Conservation Initiative & U.S. Department of the Interior
The 2010 annual report focuses on how climate change will influence bird populations and their habitat.
Download March 2010 Report (PDF), Website
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Wood Products and Carbon Storage: Can Increased Production Help...
The Wilderness Society
Discussion of greenhouse gas impacts from wood products and wood biomass fuels throughout life cycles and the affect increased use has on climate change.
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Changing Spatial Distribution of Fish Stocks...
Nye et al.
...in Relation to Climate and Population Size on the Northeast Untied States Continental Shelf
Abstract (PDF), Website |
National Parks In Peril
NRDC
"The Threats of Climate Disruption". Report identifies the 25 national parks most at risk of global warming in the United States
Download October 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Consumption Explosion
New Economics Foundation
'The Third UK Interdependence Day Report'. Over-consumption not overpopulation is real threat to the environment, pushing the planet into "ecological debt".
Download September 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Fever Pitch
NRDC
Global warming threatens to increase the spread of infection diseases into new geographic areas.
Download July 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Report provides an overview of environmental, economic and social values of the Great Barrier Reef and warns of catastrophic damage from climate change.
Download June 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Implications of Climate Change for Australia's World Heritage...
Australia Government
A preliminary assessment of the exposure, potential impacts and adaptive capacity to climate change for Australia's 17 World Heritage properties.
Download June 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
A Place at a Table?
Nature Reports Climate Change
The report argues that climate impacts represent a serious threat to those who depend on fisheries and aquatic resources for both protein and a source of income.
Download May 28, 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change
Costello et al.
Report examines how climate change could have a disastrous effect on human health across the globe, offers practical measures to control its effects.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Future of the Mediterranean
IDDRI
Report offers up-to-date information on climate trends, impacts on natural resources and adaptation strategies for the Mediterranean.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Canada
The Council of Canadian Academic
The 'Expert Panel on Groundwater' provides a scientific perspective on what is needed to achieve sustainable management of Canada's groundwater resources.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change
The Lancet and University College London, UK
Report focuses on threats to global health from climate change including disease, mortality, food and water shortages, extreme climatic events and population migration.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Change Threatens Lake Baikal's Unique Biota
BioScience Magazine
Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to study.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Vegetation Mediated the Impacts of Postglacial Climate Change...
Ecological Monographs
... On fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska. Study finds that the response of fire regimes to climate change will depend strongly upon feedbacks between climate, fire and shifts in vegetation.
Download May 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
A Boon to Bad Biofuels
Friends of the Earth
Federal tax credits and mandates underwrite environmental damage at taxpayer expense. Report finds subsidizing biofuels production is harming the environment.
Download April 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Wood Products and Carbon Storage...
Wilderness Society
... Can increased production help solve the climate crisis? This report highlights the greenhouse gas impacts of wood products and fuels. It also takes a closer look at the accuracy of forest-carbon offset programs.
Download April 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Water and Climate Change in the West
Western Water and Climate Change
This report provides key findings and recommendations from research on climate change-induced water scarcity in the western United States. Findings point toward a refined communications strategy to influence decision makers.
Download March 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
On Thin Ice: Winter Sports and Climate Change
David Suzuki Foundation
Without immediate action on climate change, by 2050 a range of winter activities across Canada will be at risk - from Olympic sports to ice fishing and pond hockey.
Download March 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast
Pacific Institute, California Climate Change Center
Sea-level rise will inevitably change the character of the California coast, and adaptation strategies must be evaluated, tested, and implemented if the risks identified in the report are to be reduced or avoided.
Download March 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Canadian Oil Boom
National Geographic Magazine
Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.
View March 2009 Report, Website |
Washington (State) Climate Change Impacts Assessment
Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington
This report presents updated climate change scenarios for Washington State and uses these scenarios to assess climate change impacts on various sectors.
Download February 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
The Waters That Bind Us - Transboundary Implications of Oil Sands...
Pembina Institute
This report explores both the impact that oil sands development has on water resources and current water management practices in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Download February 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Birds and Climate Change - Ecological Disruption in Motion
National Audubon Society
Audubon scientists analyzed 40 years of citizen-science and their findings provide new and powerful evidence that global warming is seriously impacting natural systems.
Download February 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Exceptional January-February 2009 Heatwave in South-Eastern Australia
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Special climate statements are discussions of Australia's significant weather and climate anomalies.
Download February 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Chilling Facts - The Big Supermarket Refrigeration Scandal
Environmental Investigation Agency
This survey investigates action by UK supermarkets to fix the problem of the release of HFCs (gases that contribute to GHG emissions) by leaky, old-fashioned fridges and freezers.
Download February 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Change 101: Overview
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Key Points from an 8-part series of reports on climate change, from Science and Impacts to climate change on a local scale.
Download January 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Wars
CBC Radio One - Ideas
Examination of the idea that global warming could lead to wars.
Listen January 2009 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (MP3s), Website |
Joint Research Centre Report: Climate change impacts in Europe
European Commission's Joint Research Centre
Study shows different regional impacts of climate change across the EU
Download 2009 Report (PDF) |
Climate Tipping Points
WWF & Allianz
An animated version of the report shows tipping points related to drought, changing oceans and ice melting.
Website |
The Impact of a Global Temperature Rise of 4°C
UK Government
Map illustrates the global consequences of failing to keep climate change to under 2°C by highlighting impacts that may occur.
Map (PDF), Website |
Global Climate Change: Impacts in the United States
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Summarizes the impacts of climate change on different regions of the U.S., energy, water, agriculture and health. Highlights options for response and adaptation.
Download 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Mitigating Climate Change Through Food and Land Use
Worldwatch Institute
Report cautions against developing a climate change mitigation strategy without including agriculture and land use policies. Provides five major strategies for reducing and sequestering terrestrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Download 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change...
International Union on Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
A global assessment of the critical role of forests as massive 'sinks' for absorbing greenhouse gases and their ability to adapt to climate change along with options for adaptation.
Download 2009 Report (PDF), Abstract (PDF) |
The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report
McAfee
This report calculates the environmental impact of spam. It found the energy consumed in transmitting and deleting spam is equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million U.S. homes, with GHG emissions equivalent to 3.1 million passenger cars.
Download 2009 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Change & Health Costs of Air Emissions from Biofuels & Gasoline
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the USA
This study quantifies and monetizes the life-cycle climate-change and health effects of greenhouse gas and fine particulate matter emissions from gasoline, corn ethanol, and cellulosic ethanol.
Download December 2008 Report (PDF), Website |
Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Australia's...
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
This assessment is an scoping study to identify important climate change impacts on Australia's physical infrastructure and provide recommendations for future action.
Download November 2008 Report (PDF) |
Danger in the Nursery: Impact of Tar Sands in Canada's Boreal on Birds
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Tar sands oil development is destroying habitat for waterfowl and songbirds that come from all over the Americas to nest in the Boreal.
Download November 2008 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Change Impacts in Drought-and-Flood-Affected Areas
The World Bank
Report analyses the impact of climate change in India and offers measures and incentives to further India’s climate resilience.
Download June 2008 Report (PDF), Website |
Factsheet: Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Ecosystems
WWF
Part of a factsheet series - Concludes a warmer climate will melt permafrost, change movement of insects and animals, and cause waters to be more acidic.
Download February 2008 Report (PDF), Website |
Rising Temperatures and Rising Seas
Earth Policy Institute
Chapter 3 of Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization focuses on rising temperature and its effects on agriculture, melting sea ice, and severe storms.
Download 2008 Report (PDF), Website |
Climate Change Impacts On Indigenous Caribou Systems...
Encyclopedia of Earth, International Arctic Science Committee
The Vuntut Gwitchin's (Yukon) caribou production system illustrates variables that must be considered in climate change assessments of North American caribou user communities.
Download December 2007 Report (HTML) |
Climate Change In Relation To Carbon Uptake And Carbon Storage...
Encyclopedia of Earth, International Arctic Science Committee
This article discusses mechanisms for changes in boreal carbon cycling resulting from climate change in the Arctic.
Download November 2007 Report (HTML) |
Critical Elements Of Wildlife Management In An Arctic Undergoing Change
Encyclopedia of Earth, International Arctic Science Committee
This article assesses existing structures for management and conservation of Artic wildlife and their adaptability to changes as a result of climate change.
Download July 2007 Report (HTML) |
Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage
UNESCO
Report highlights impacts of climate change on 26 natural and cultural World Heritage properties, along with ongoing and planned adaptation and mitigation measures.
Download June 2007 Report (PDF), Website |
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