Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - assessing scientific information relevant to human-induced climate change, the impacts of human-induced climate change, and options for adaptation and mitigation.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - international treaty is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming.

Stern Report - review of the effect of climate change and global warming on the world economy, by economist Lord Nicholas Stern for the British government, released on October 30, 2006.