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Land: A Tool for Climate Change Adaptation
Excerpted from the text: "There are three justifications for the inclusion of adaptation measures for the drylands communities in the new climate change agreement. First, drylands communities are classified as the poorest of the poor and are therefore unlikely to be able to bear the added cost of response to longer and more intense droughts prec ...
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertificatio, Bonn, Germany, June 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Large-Scale Residential Energy Efficiency Programs Based on CFLs
"The World Bank Group and its Energy Sector Management Assitance Progamme
(ESMAP) have produced a toolkit for efficient lighting programmes, based on
compact fluorescent lamps, that compiles and shares operational (design,
financing and implementation) elements, documents, lessons learned, results and
other relevant data."
"The Toolk ...
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Bipulendu Narayan Singh, Samira Elkhamlichi, Abhishek Bhaskar, Xiaoyu Shi, and Isabel Lavadenz Paccieri
The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA, December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Law and Economics for a Warming World
"Both law and economics offer frameworks for understanding public policy – and both require changes in order to respond effectively to the challenge of climate change. Contrary to implicit conservative assumptions, maintaining the status quo is not an option; “business as usual” will lead to rapidly worsening results as greenhouse gas emissions con ...
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Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman
Harvard Law and Policy Review volume 1, no. 2, pp.331-362: August 2008
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Leading the Way: Implementing Practical Solutions to the Climate Change Challenge
This report by the Climate Action Team (CAT), a state-government-created broad-based group of business, academic, tribal, state and local government, labor, religious, and environmental leaders in the State of Washington, contains “most promising” strategies and opportunities to reduce green house gas emissions. The group focused its efforts in ...
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The Climate Change Action Team
Seattle, WA: Climate Action Team, November 7, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Leaving the Trial Phase Behind – Preferences & Strategies of German Companies under the EU ETS
This reports a survey of German firms. It documents the extent of their engagement with the European Trading System (ETS), their strategies concerning investments in carbon credits, the impact of these strategies on their other investment activities, and the price forecasts that motivate these responses.
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Annette Detken, Andreas Löschel, Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi, Peter Heindl, Vivien Lo, Marianne Strunz
KfW Bankengruppe and Centre for European Economic Research, May 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor the Public
Lessons Learned from Copenhagen What You Need to Know Following the International Climate Change Sum...
From the article: "The international negotiations on climate change wrapped up December
19 in Copenhagen. The conference achieved an interim agreement, known
as the Copenhagen Accord, which could put the major polluting nations
on a pathway to reducing global warming pollution, and it continues to
set the expectation for U.S. domestic action ...
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Rebecca Lefton, Andrew Light, Daniel J. Weiss
Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design
Climate policy could hurt manufacturing industries for which energy is a significant share of total production costs.Five US industries are particularly vulnerable: ferrous metals (iron and steel), nonferrous metals (aluminum and copper), nonmetal mineral products (cement and glass), paper and pulp, and basic chemicals. Under a domestic cap-and-tra ...
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Houser, Trevor, Rob Bradley, Britt Childs, Jacob Werksman, and Robert Heilmayr
Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics and World Resources Institute: May 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Leveraging Infrastructure Investment Now and for the Future
...(A)ny infrastructure investments included in a recovery bill need to
focus on investments that secure the existing system and help
transition to a clean, efficient, energy-independent future—creating
millions of green jobs and job opportunities for the under-employed in
the process.
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Brookings instirurte: December, 2008
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Limited Agreement is Reached as Copenhagen Summit Comes to an End
From the website: "President Obama forged a political accord with China, India, and South Africa that did
not meet the modest expectations for the Copenhagen summit meeting.
There was no legally binding treaty to reduce global greenhouse gas
emissions, but instead countries will be required to list their
greenhouse gas reduction targets and a ...
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Yale Environment 360For Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change
This is a policy brief from the National Council of the National Academies.
From the Abstract: "Meeting internationally discussed targets for limiting atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and associated increases in global average temperatures will require a major departure from business as usual in how the world uses and produces en ...
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Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change: Robert W. Fri (Chair)
National Council of The National Academies
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Linking Emission Trading Schemes
This paper discusses how a mechanism could be designed to cause a price conversion for emissions permits across multiple permit markets.Abstraction:"Linking emission trading schemes would favor the depletion of low-cost abatement opportunities that are geographically spread over the globe. However, this would only be possible if the price of the em ...
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Georg Grüll and Luca Taschini
Essen, London, and Cambridge, MA: 1 February 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Linking the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme
This paper discusses how an Australian emissions trading scheme could be linked to an international trading scheme.
Abstract:
"Australia is establishing an economy-wide emissions trading scheme, with a detailed proposal tabled by the government in December 2008 and a scheme start planned for mid-2010. The proposal is for uni ...
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Frank Jotzo and Regina Betz
Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports, Canberra: February 2009.
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States,Asia and OceaniaFor Specialized Analysts
Literature Review on Climate Change Impacts on Urban City Centres: Initial Findings
This study reviews the literature on studies of climate change on cities. It has found an emerging literature on this subject, though the studies are mostly qualitative in nature. Nonetheless, a small number of studies have undertaken detailed analysis of city scale impacts across sectors, notably London, New York, and Boston. However, even for th ...
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Alistair Hunt and Paul Watkiss
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Environment Directorate, Environment Policy Committee: December 6, 2007
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Local Leaders in Sustainability
The American Institute of Architects (AIA), approaches sustainability and green building with a solutions-based perspective that seeks to reduce the impact of our built environment on the natural world.
From the Conclusion: "American green building programs continue to flourish in cities across the country due to the leadership of local offic ...
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Brooks Rainwater, Cooper Martin and Brendan Kara
The American Institute of Architects, Washiington, DC., 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Long Live the Kyoto Protocol
This blog entry discusses possible fruitful policy routes in future UNFCCC discussions.From the introduction:"Most feel the Copenhagen summit on climate change failed. This column argues for a “plan B” – to go back to Kyoto. The Kyoto Protocol has the tools needed for international policy. Future negotiations should focus on refining existing agree ...
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Richard S.J. Tol
VoxEU, London: 23 January 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Long-Run Effects of Post-Kyoto Policies: Applying a Fully Dynamic CGE model with Heterogeneous Capit...
This paper models the welfare effects of various carbon policies and climate change. Though the model developed is applied to the Swiss economy, the paper provides a general overview of different policies' economic effects.
Abstract:
"The paper develops a new type of CGE model to predict the effects of carbon policies on con ...
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Lucas Bretschger, Roger Ramer and Florentine Schwark
Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Economics Working Paper 10/129, Zurich: April 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists
Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge, Future Research
In this article, the author highlights three over-arching challenges for the international research community on long-term environmental problems. These three challenges are:
(i) how to overcome the time inconsistency problem in practical political life
(ii) whether democracies and decentralized political systems can successfully
pursue ...
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Detlef F. Sprinz
MIT Press Journals, August 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Long-Term Risks and Short-Term Regulations Modeling the Transition from Enhanced Oil Recovery to Geo...
Recent policy debates suggest that geologic carbon sequestration (GS) will play an important role in any carbon-constrained future. The paper "develop(s) a basic engineering–economic model of four strategies associated with key deployment pathways in the portfolio of EOR and GS projects...(and) suggests that GS regulatory design needs to anticipat ...
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Alexander J. Bandza and Shalini P. Vajjhala
Resources for the Future: September, 2008
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Low Carbon Retrofit Toolkit: A Roadmap to Success
Despite benefits to both owners and occupiers of commercial buildings, low carbon
technology retrofitting initiatives are not being taken up sufficiently widely to have
significant impact on reducing the carbon emissions of commercial buildings in the UK. This report was commissioned in order to gain a deeper understanding of the issues rest ...
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John Rhoads
Better Buildings Partnership, London, UK, May 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future A Carbon Reduction Strategy for Transport
This report, presented to British Parliament by the Secretary of State for Transport, outlines the challenges, opportunities and strategies for shifting to low carbon, renewable sources of energy in the transportation sector and how business, industry and government can collaborate to make it, not only a reality, but an opportunity.
It is di ...
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Department for Transport
Crown, Surrey, UK, July 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
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