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Balancing the Carbon Market: Overview of Carbon Price Estimates
From the executive summary: For this report, we performed a literature review of scientific models that calculate a global carbon price. The search ultimately yielded thirty studies presenting results from twenty-seven different scientific models for a total of seventy-six observations and six projections from private actors on the carbon market. O ...
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Tjaša Bole
Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, March 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Baltic Sea Region Testing Ground Facility (TGF)
From the Overview: "For the past five years, the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) has been an active participant in the project-based segment of the carbon markets which have mobilised significant new investments for climate change mitigation. The Baltic Sea Region Testing Ground Facility (TGF), a pioneering regional carbon fund ma ...
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Ash Sharma and Hanna-Mari Ahonen i
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, Helsinki, Finland, March 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Baseline and Monitoring Methodology for Project Actions that Reduce Emissions from Deforestation on ...
This document presents a detailed methodology for assessing potential REDD projects to determine whether they should qualify in carbon offset programs.
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Terra Global Capital LLC and Community Forestry International, Inc.
TÃœV SÃœD Industrie Service GmbH, May 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
Basic Information from the EPA
This link will take you to a page on the EPA website that has posted four two-page fact sheets
on climate change based on recent scientific data and findings. These documents
may be useful to state and local governments looking for public outreach
materials on climate change. The four new fact sheets are:
Climate
Change Sc ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Â
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C, USA, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Benchmarking in the EU: Lessons from the EU Emissions Trading System for the Global Climate Change A...
This CEPS Task Force Report identifies the key issues arising from the
current benchmarking exercise under the EU ETS and analyses the principal
controversial topics on benchmark-based allocation, leading to a number of
concrete recommendations. In addition, the report examines the origins and
experiences of earlier exercises and draws so ...
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Christian Egenhofer and Anton Georgiev
Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium, June 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Betting on Science Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels
This study examines technologies in transport fuels that have the potential to “disrupt” the current views of supply, demand as well as greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years. The study defines a fuel as "disruptive" if it meets the following criteria:
Scaleable: Greater than 20 percent potential impact on hydrocarbon fuel demand ...
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Accenture
Accenture, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Beyond Rising Sea Levels: The Importance of the Insurance Asset in the Process of Accelerating Deliv...
Second of two articles. Addresses new technology risks and their management, both for rising seas and other aspects of climate change, but turns more to managing the the uncertainties inherent in introducing new technologies. Argues that "To ignore price signals sent by the insurance industry is to risk deployment of unsustainable or inefficient te ...
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Patton, Lindene
European Business Review: 2008For the Public
Beyond Rising Sea Levels: Using the Insurance Asset to Manage Risk and Maximize Opportunity in the â...
The first of two papers on how risk management practices can turn the unknown nrisks and threats of rising seas into manageable economic events. Stresses that insurance underwriting helps define the costs of rising seas and thus creates more incentive for managing those potentially controllable costs. Cites existing global agreements, regional comp ...
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Patton, Lindene
European Business Review: 2008For the Public
Biodiversity and Climate Change Laws: A Failure to Communicate?
From the Abstract: "Climate change driven by global warming is substantially modifying important ecosystems and threatens to destroy great swaths of biodiversity. At both the international and state levels, two separate sets of laws exist – one addresses biodiversity and endangered species (e.g., the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, and ...
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David Hodas
Social Science Research Network, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD Benefits
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) has published a guide titled
“Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD Benefits,” which provides tools and examples for how to achieve synergy among participants through reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing c ...
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German Technical Cooperation, November 30, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Biofuels – at What Cost? Government Support for Ethanol and Biodiesel in the United States
From the introduction: "This report examines government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States. We have surveyed current government subsidy policies at the federal, state and, to the extent possible, local level. This analysis forms part of a multi-country effort by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) to characterize and quantify ...
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Doug Koplow (Earth Track, Inc.)
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2006
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Biofuels Subsidies and the Green Paradox
This paper discusses the green paradox, in which renewables stimulate fossil fuel consumption, and biofuel subsidies.Abstract:"This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than off ...
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R. Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas, Ngo Van Long
CESIFO Working Paper No. 2960, Munich, Germany: February 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Biofuels, Climate Policy and the European Vehicle Fleet
Abstract:
“We examine the effect of biofuels mandates and climate policy on the European vehicle fleet,
considering the prospects for diesel and gasoline vehicles. We use the MIT Emissions Prediction and
Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, which is a general equilibrium model of the world economy. We
expand this model by explicitly introducing ...
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Xavier Gitiaux, Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly and Sebastian Rausch
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change: August, 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study
From the Introduction: "This study addresses a wide array of scientific, economic and
technological issues related to the use of forest biomass for generating energy in Massachusetts. The study team, assembled and directed by the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, was composed of experts in forest ecosystems management and
policy; natur ...
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Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences,
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet, MA, USA,
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Blueprint for Legislative Action
USCAP, the author/publisher, is a coalition of US corporations and four major environmental organizations, Environmental Defense, Nature Conservancy, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the World Resources Institute. The group only issues consensus documents, and this is the 2009 legislative priority list.
The Introduction:
"The U ...
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U.S. Climate Action Partnership
Washington, DC: U.S. Climate Action Partnership, January, 2009.
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Breaking theClimate Deadlock: A Global Deal for Our Low-Carbon Future
Tony Blair, past Prime Minister of the UK, presents proposals for a global climate change initiative. He acknowledges there is a huge challenge in reversing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions at a time when they are growing rapidly in much of the world. But he garners the economic evidence in favor of prompt action and clearly presents the evid ...
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Blair, Tony
London, UK: The Climate Group. Report submitted to the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit: June, 2008
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Breaking Through on Technology: Overcoming the Barriers to the Development and Wide Deployment of Lo...
From the website: Based on interviews with 100 experts from government, industry, academia and civil society in key countries including the US, China and India, the report 'Breaking through on Technology' concludes that a lack of robust government policy and a chronic shortage of finance are the principle barriers to a low-carbon technology revolut ...
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Global Climate Network
Global Climate Network Discussion Paper No. 2, July 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor the Public
Bringing Residential Energy Efficiency to Scale
From the Introduction: "For more than thirty years, state energy officials have played a leading role in developing and implementing energy efficiency retrofit programs in residential buildings. The experience from these programs, such as the Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income families, is an important resource for the Obama admini ...
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The Energy Programs Consortium
The Energy Programs Consortiium, Washington DC, August 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Building a Green Economy
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman provides a review of climate change economics and then discusses the processes of - and logic for -building a green conomy in the United States now, while facing 10% unemployment. This article from the New York Times Magazine is accompanied by readers' comments which contain many other arguments, pro and ...
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Krugman, Paul
New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 5, 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Building a low-carbon economy – The UK’s contribution to tackling climate change
"Climate change resulting from CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions poses a huge threat to human welfare. To contain that threat, the world needs to cut emissions by about 50% by 2050, and to start cutting emissions now. A global agreement to take action is vital. But a global agreement will not be possible unless the countries of the rich, dev ...
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Kennedy, David, et alia (staff, members, advisors to the Committee on Climate Change)
London, UK: TSO (The Stationery Office) for the Committee on Climate Change. First Report. December 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
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