Archive of Climate documents
- Letter to United, Continental Airlines CEO from Environmental Groups Type: Letter
Date: May 11, 2011
Objects to United/Continental Airlines lawsuit to block a new European law that holds all airlines accountable for their global warming pollution. - Objects to American Airlines lawsuit to block a new European law that holds all airlines accountable for their global warming pollution.
- Design of an airline-based emissions trading system for addressing greenhouse gas emissions from the international civil aviation sector.
- In this issue: EDF redoubles efforts to save Gulf wetlands, Risky Business: Tampering with the Earth's Climate, U.S. and Brazil sign pact on rainfores
- A flexible framework can let nations earn clean energy financing when they are ready to cap emissions.
- The EU ETS, while not perfect, is blazing a path for future comprehensive trading schemes in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.
- In-depth discussion of key REDD issues, including forest carbon measurement, additionality, leakage, economics of REDD and REDD in carbon markets.
- Description of production and transfer of REDD credits to U.S. companies to use for compliance with a domestic climate law.
- In-depth description of the 7 essential components of a successful REDD policy.
- Support for REDD is gaining traction in national and sub-national climate change policy in developed and developing countries. This map highlights sev
- See step-by-step how carbon credits for reduced deforestation are created, financed, verified, purchased, and ultimately provide sustainable economic
- Summary of the necessity of REDD in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving indigenous forest peoples' traditional lifestyles. This two-page f
- Brief, non-technical summary of what REDD is, how it works and what benefits it provides.
- Policy makers can and must try to overcome inherent psychological barriers and create pockets of certainty that link benefits of climate policy to loc
- This article in Environment and Development Economics finds that market linkage of reducing emissions from deforestation induces modest reductions in
- Summary of options for generating $100 billion in climate finance by 2020.
- From the Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2010. Several pathways lead into a low-carbon, high-efficiency future. Properly designed
- Constructs a comprehensive dataset of oil and total energy embedded in world trade of manufacturing goods for 73 countries from 1978 to 2000.
- Lays out a set of principal building blocks that need to be put in place for the turn toward climate safety and shows how to generate sufficient finan