• Announcing the
  2008 Edition of Understanding and Responding to Climate Change.
  This booklet presents recommendations from the National Academies' many expert reports on climate change in an easy-to-read format.
  
  Download Booklet PDF (3.3 MB)
  Order FREE Printed Copies (limit 15)

• Get presentations and audio from the National Academies' Summit on America's Energy Future, held March 2008. Also available is a new booklet entitled What You Need to Know About Energy.

Climate change-related activities are carried out within almost every major division of the National Academies. These activities include traditional consensus-reports, workshops, symposiums, and standing board, committee, and roundtable meetings. The majority of these activities are overseen by the following units:

• Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
• Climate Research Committee
• Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change
• Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Board on Energy and Environmental Systems
• Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
• Board on Global Health
• Board on Life Sciences
• Board on Population and Public Health Practice
• Ocean Studies Board
• Space Studies Board
• Transporation Research Board
• Water Science and Technology Board

Click HERE for an overview of the National Academies study process.

The National Academies offers the following e-mail newsletters and notifications related to climate change:

• Climate Change Study and Summit (periodic e-mail notifications)
• Earth & Life Studies Gateway (immediate or monthly e-mail notifications)
• The Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Newsletter (quarterly)

For further information please email us at climatechange@nas.edu
or contact the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
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