Penn State's EESI includes the Center for Penn State Ice and Climate Research [3], the National Institute for Climatic Change Research [4], and several other centers relevant to climate change.
The IPCC is the umbrella organization that articulates not only the consensus among climate scientists, but also the breadth of opinion among them. It assembles and synthesizes the work of some 2,000 scientists in scores of disciplines from about 150 countries. Wikipedia. [10] Press Contact. [11]
The UNFCCC is a treaty that was negotiated at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, was ratified by some 189 countries, and went into effect in March 1994. It initially had no mandatory controls or deadlines. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which did set mandatory limits, was an add-on to the UNFCCC.
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/researchacademic-institutions/earth-and-environmental-systems-institute-penn-state-unive
[2] http://www.eesi.psu.edu/
[3] http://www.eesi.psu.edu/centers/psice.php
[4] http://www.eesi.psu.edu/centers/NICCR.php
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[8] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/international-agencies/intergovernmental-panel-climate-change
[9] http://www.ipcc.ch/
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC
[11] http://www.ipcc.ch/press/press.htm
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[13] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/international-agencies/united-nations-framework-convention-climate-change
[14] http://unfccc.int/2860.php
[15] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A
[16] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=80
[17] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=77
[18] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=78
[19] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=79
[20] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=82
[21] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=83
[22] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=84
[23] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/list/%2A?page=85