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This Month: Climate Change
January 2015
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Public Documents on Climate Change
Climate Change 2014 - Mitigation of Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2014
Canada in a Changing Climate: Sector Perspectives on Impacts and Adaptation
Natural Resources Canada 2014
Canada's Fast-Start Financing: Delivering on Our Copenhagen Commitment
Environment Canada 2013
Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
International Institute for Sustainable Development 2012
Carbon in the Bank: Ontario's Greenbelt and its Role in Mitigating Climate Change
David Suzuki Foundation 2012
A Blueprint for Forest Carbon Science in Canada, 2012-2020
Canadian Forest Service (Natural Resources Canada) 2012
Africa Transformation-Ready: The Strategic Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: Final Report
International Institute for Sustainable Development 2011
Clean Energy and Climate Action: A North American Collaboration: Expert Dialogue Synthesis Report
International Institute for Sustainable Development 2010
Biological Carbon Sinks: Transaction Costs and Governance
Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria 2008
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
Assembly of First Nations 2006
Public Documents on Carbon Tax
The B.C. Carbon Tax: Backgrounder
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development 2014
The Case for a Carbon Tax in Canada
Canada 2020 2014
The Effect of British Columbia's Carbon Tax on Agricultural Trade
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria 2014
Why New International Taxes for Development Are Inefficient
Montreal Economic Institute 2013
The Political Economy of British Columbia's Carbon Tax
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 2013
British Columbia's Carbon Tax: Exploring Perspectives and Seeking Common Ground
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development 2012
British Columbia's Carbon Tax Shift: The First Four Years
Sustainable Prosperity (University of Ottawa) 2012
Natural Gas, Wind and Nuclear Options for Generating Electricity in a Carbon Constrained World
Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria 2012
The Economic, Environmental and Political Consequences of Carbon Pricing: Case Studies in Pricing-Based Carbon Controls
Frontier Centre for Public Policy 2012
Equality Impact Statement: Carbon Tax
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund 2011
New Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada: Papers in Honour of Ian Stewart
Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2011
Canada's Innovation Imperative: Report on Canada 2011
Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity 2011
Books on Climate Change
American Exodus : Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
Giles Slade
New Society Publishers 2013
Biochar Solution : Carbon Farming and Climate Change
Albert K. Bates
New Society Publishers 2010
Climate Change Policy in North America : Designing Integration in a Regional System

University of Toronto Press 2013
Coming Back to Life : The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
Joanna Macy;Molly Young Brown
New Society Publishers 2015
Everything Under the Sun : Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
David Suzuki;Ian Hanington
Heritage House Publishing 2012
Flood Forecast : Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada

Heritage House Publishing 2014
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq : A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Shelley Wright
McGill-Queen's University Press 2014
Sacred Acts : How Churches are Working to Protect Earth's Climate
Mallory McDuff
New Society Publishers 2012
The Fast-Changing Arctic : Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World

University of Calgary Press 2013
The New Normal : The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate

Canadian Plains Research Centre 2010
New Books this Month
A Master of Deception : Working Undercover for the RCMP
Robert Knuckle
General Store Publishing House 2014
A Morning to Polish and Keep
Julie Lawson
Crow Cottage Publishing 2014
Bad Judgment : The Myth of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada
John Reilly
Heritage House Publishing 2014
From White to Yellow : The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735
Rotem Kowner
McGill-Queen's University Press 2014
Glimpses of a Global Life
Shridath Ramphal
Dundurn 2014
Invisible Immigrants : The English in Canada since 1945
Marilyn Barber;Murray Watson
University of Manitoba Press 2015
Regenerations / Régénérations : Canadian women's writing / écriture des femmes au Canada

University of Alberta Press 2014
Safely Home Pacific Western
Jeff Latosik
Goose Lane Editions 2015
Shepherding the Lost Sheep : A World War II Memoir
Ted Harris
General Store Publishing House 2014
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington : A Critical Edition Volume 2
Miriam Waddington
University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2014
The Essential Anne Wilkinson
Anne Wilkinson
The Porcupine's Quill 2014
The Law and the Lawless : Frontier Justice in British Columbia and Yukon, 1913-1935

Heritage House Publishing 2014
Time Bomb : Canada and the First Nations
Douglas L. Bland
Dundurn 2014
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