To get started, we recommend reviewing the “Summary for Policymakers” sections of the IPCC’s AR6 Synthesis Report and the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. These are essential background summaries written for non-experts!
British Columbia
- BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan
- BC Assembly of First Nations: Climate Emergency website
- Province of BC: Climate Change website
- BC Preliminary Strategic Risk Assessment
Canada
- Canada in a Changing Climate, Natural Resources Canada
- Climate Atlas of Canada
- Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – Policy Briefs for Canada (released annually)
International
United Nation bodies
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- UN Environment Program (UNEP)
Reports
- UN Climate Change Conference: Synthesis Report of the Technical Dialogue of the First Global Stocktake (2023)
- IPCC’s 6th (AR6) Synthesis Report – Climate Change 2023 (IPCC, March 2023)
- IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) – Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (IPCC, 4 April 2022)
- IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) – Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (IPCC, 28 Feb 2022)
- IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) – Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (IPCC, 9 Aug 2021)
- NDC Synthesis Report (UNFCCC, 26 Feb 2021)
- Emissions Gap Report (UNEP, Dec 2020)
- Special Report on Climate Change and Land (IPCC, Jan 2020)
- The Human Cost of Disasters: An Overview of the Last 20 Years (2000-2019) (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020)
- Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (IPCC, Sept 2019)
- Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, May 2019)
- Special Report & Summary for Policy Makers on 1.5 degrees of Global Warming (IPCC, Oct 2018)
- Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (updated annually and further supported by country specific briefs and work by Regional Centres)
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007)