NA-YGN COP6 Work Group

Reference Materials

The PEW Center

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. Established in 1998 by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center is led by Eileen Claussen, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and staffed by a dedicated team of professionals who are committed to advancing the debate in a credible and stimulating manner.

The International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association

This association has guides to climate change terminology and to the negotiations.

The Energy Information Agency

This arm of the US Department of Energy has compiled a lot of research on greenhouse gas emission, future energy needs, and the impact of the Kyoto protocol on the US energy industry.

The UW-Madison Fusion Technology Institute

While a student, Scott White performed a number of analyses on the energy payback ratio and CO2 emissions form a number of energy sources.

  • "Birth to Death'' Analysis of the Energy Payback Ratio and CO2 Gas Emission Rates from Coal, Fission, Wind, and DT Fusion Electrical Power Plants; Scott W. White and Gerald L. Kulcinski, March 1998 (Revised February 1999) [presented at the 6th IAEA Meeting on Fusion Power Plant Design and Technology, Culham, England, March 23-27, 1998, UWFDM-1063 [PDF].

  • Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Wind-Generated Electricity in the Midwest; S.W. White and G.L. Kulcinski, December 1998. UWFDM-1092 [PDF]

  • Net Energy Payback and CO2 Emissions from Helium-3 Fusion and Wind Electrical Power Plants (Ph.D. thesis); Scott W. White, December 1998. UWFDM-1093