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- Brief, non-technical summary of what REDD is, how it works and what benefits it provides.
- Report: A call for action to clean up marine shipping pollution
- 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
- The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's first mandatory cap-and-trade program for CO2 emissions. This fact sheet describes
- Financing the transition to low-carbon economic development must be the focus of any framework to encourage developing countries’ participation in the
- The Clear Path: Rewarding Early Actions by Emerging Economies to Limit Carbon Type: Report
Date: January 13, 2009
EDF proposes a new framework in Poznan that would encourage emerging economies to cap greenhouse gas emissions as part of their participation in a pos - For a leading environmentalist, natural gas can be a solution only if industry does its part to allay concerns.
- Well construction and design, air quality and wastewater disposal are key areas of risk in natural gas development.
- Summarizes the compelling science showing the health consequences of traffic.
- Report co-authored by the American Lung Association, Environmental Defense Fund, National Association of Clean Air Agencies, and Puget Sound Clean Air
- Looks back at the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (or PNGV) program, launched with great fanfare by President Bill Clinton in 1993 - what
- Duke University report identifies 334 U.S. company locations already developing or manufacturing products for a smart grid.
- A well-designed smart grid can significantly reduce the environmental costs of producing and delivering electric power, and save money doing so.
- New report shows how urban investment can spark environmental improvement, in large part by responding thoughtfully and creatively to local, regional
- 2001 report explains antibiotic resistance and focuses on why it poses a particular threat to three very vulnerable groups: children, the elderly, and
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