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Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes: Exposure
This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities to coastal flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate change is likely to impact each port city's exposure to coastal flooding by the 2070s, alongside subsidence and population growth and u ...
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R. J. Nicholls, S. Hanson, C. Herweijer, N. Patmore, S. Hallegatte, J. Corfee-Morlot, J. Château, R. Muir-Wood
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Environment Working Papers No. 1: 2005
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes: Exposure Esitmates
Abstract
"This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities to coastal flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate change is likely to impact each port city’s exposure to coastal flooding by the 2070s, alongside subsidence and popula ...
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Nicholls, R. J., S. Hanson, C. Herweijer, N. Patmore, S. Hallegatte, J. Corfee-Morlot, Jean Château, R. Muir-Wood
Paris, FR: Oganization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 1, 2008.
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Reanalysis of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for Attribution of ...
The Product extends beyond the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis). While the IPCC report emphasized climate change at global to continental scales, this Product focuses on North America. The assessment addresses the likelihood and extent to which human activity ...
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US Climate Change Science Program, Randall Dole, Martin Hoerling, Siegfried Schubert (Eds.)
Asheville, NC: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dec 11, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
Rebuilding America A National Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits
From the Forward:
“This report is a detailed examination of how the United States can build a low-carbon economy by harnessing energy efficiency as our “first fuel.” By retrofitting existing homes and businesses, we can cost-effectively reduce end-use waste and pollution, and at the same time jump start an economic recovery, create good jobs, and ...
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Center for American Progress, Energy Future Coalition
Washington, DC:Center for American Progress, Energy Future Coalition, August 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Feasibility Tool
This excel spreadsheet was created to determine the economic feasibility of potential REDD projects. Since many factors influence the viability of a REDD project, the authors recommend that “project developers conduct a careful review of their project against the standards that they want to use such as the Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) S ...
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Divaldo Rezende, Diego Serrano, Cecília Michellis, Naomi Kawasaki and Guilherme Lefreve and Steven Panfil
Social Carbon, Rua Borges Lagoa, 1065 Conjunto 146 - Vila Clementino CEP: 04.038-032 São Paulo – SP and the Climate Community & Biodiversity Alliance, September 2009.
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
REDD from an Integrated Perspective: Considering Overall Climate Change Mitigation, Biodiversity Con...
From the executive summary: This discussion paper assesses selected options currently “on the table” in the international debate and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). REDD design options are analyzed with ...
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Lars Schmidt
German Development Institute Discussion Paper 4/2009, June 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
REDD+ Institutional Options Assessment: Developing an Efficient, Effective, and Equitable Institutio...
This paper discusses institutional blocks and possible policy mechanisms for the United Nations' REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program.From the Introduction:"This REDD+ Institutional Options Assessment summarizes the institutional issues that must be considered in order to establish an effective, efficient, and ...
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Charlotte Streck, Luis GOmez-Echeverri, Pablo Gutman, Cyril Loisel, and Jacob Werksman
The Meridian Institute, Washington, DC: September 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
Reduce Risk and Raise Resilience
This is a publication of World Vision, a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization that works with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice, through sponsorship of children and other programs. In their work in some of the poorest nations of the world they have witnessed first-hand the consequences of clim ...
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David Lansley and Kirsten Donaldson
World Vision, Monrovia, CA, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Asia and OceaniaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses: The case for a whole landscape approach
From the Cover: "A whole-landscape approach to reducing emissions and managing
carbon stocks can help address the drivers of deforestation, reduce problems like
leakage, and eliminate the need for precise forest definitions."
Key Findings:
1. Compared to schemes currently under discussion for forestbased emissions mitigation, Reducing ...
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ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins
ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, Nairobi, Kenya, 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|For the Public
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): An Options Assessment Report
This report discusses considerations for implementing the United Nations' REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) scheme.From the Executive Summary:"The Bali Road Map should lead to a Copenhagen agreement that commits to climate stabilization at a maximum 2°C temperature increase, consistent with atmospheric CO2 co ...
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Arild Angelsen, Sandra Brown, Cyril Loisel, Leo Peskett, Charlotte Streck, and Daniel Zarin
The Meridian Institute, Washington, DC: March 2009
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?
Starting in early 2007, a research team from McKinsey worked with leading companies, industry experts, academics, and environmental NGOs to develop a detailed, consistent fact base estimating costs and potentials of different options to reduce or prevent GHG emissions within the U.S. through 2030. The team analyzed more than 250 options, encompassi ...
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Creyts, Jon, et. al.
New York, NY: McKinsey & Company. U.S. Greenhouse Gas Abatement Mapping Initiative
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating ProposalsFor the Public
Reforming Climate Change Finance
This policy brief from the Overseas Development Institute recommends reforming climate change policy to be more accountable and transparent.
From the "Policy recommendations" of the brief:
"Therefore, channelling new financial resources quickly to countries in need should be an urgent priority. This early activity would be w ...
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Neil Bird, Overseas Development Institute
Overseas Development Institute, London: May 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Refuel Economy with Cash for Old Cars
Offering cash vouchers to clunker owners in exchange for their old,
polluting cars is an idea that should be getting more attention.
Drivers could use the vouchers toward the purchase of newer, more
fuel-efficient vehicles, with the old vehicles scrapped to get them off
the road....Cash for clunkers would also reduce carbon emissions, local pol ...
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Jason Bordoff
Brookings instirurte: January 06, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Regional and State-Based Climate Change Initiatives in the United States
Hill, Catherine S., and Margreta Morgulas
NY State Barr Assoc. NYSBA Government, Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 41-49.: Summer 2008
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Reinforcing the EU Dialogue with Developing Countries on Climate Change Mitigation
This paper discusses technology transfer between the developed and developing nations. Though focusing on the EU, China, and India, the paper could be useful for US policymakers interested in facilitating international technology transfer.
Summary:
"The FP6 TOCSIN project has evaluated climate change mitigation options in Ch ...
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Frank Vöhringer, Alain Haurie, Dabo Guan, Maryse Labriet, Richard Loulou, Valentina Bosetti, Pryadarshi R. Shukla, Philippe Thalmann
Center for Environmental Economics and Management, Sustainable Development Series, Venice: 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States,Asia and OceaniaFor Specialized Analysts
Removing Market Barriers to Green Development Principles and action projects to promote widespread a...
Findings from an EPA consultative project to identify "Principles and action projects to promote widespread adoption of green development practices."
"U.S. EPA Region 5 initiated a process to look at market barriers to green development practices, working with its partners the Northeast-Midwest Institute and the Delta Institute. This initiat ...
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Region V, Us Environmental Protection Agency, with the Delta Institute and Northeast-Midwest Institute
Chicago, IL:US EPA Region V, December, 2008
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century - OH
"Despite widespread interest in the size of the renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE&EE) industries and the number of jobs these industries create, until [2007] no one had conducted a comprehensive study of these industries. Our study addresses this issue, and adds the following major contributions to the body of knowledge related to
RE&EE ...
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Bezdek, ,Roger
Boulder, CO: American Solar Energy Society, 2007
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Renewable Energy Investment and the Clean Development Mechanism
This paper examines how the clean development mechanism affects the functioning of carbon markets.
Abstract:
"This paper uses transaction and index data to empirically examine price formation in, and equilibrium characteristics of, the primary CDM market. Results point to the preemptive behaviour among intermediaries (carbon ...
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Kirill Zavodov
Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge: March 2010
Objectives: Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Renewable Energy Snapshots 2010
Although this report focuses on the renewable energy sources accounted for in the EU since 2009, (which is 62% (17GW) of the new
electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009), its findings and recommendations are useful for any developed country seeking to lower its GHG emissions.
The report also highlights
the need to ...
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Hans Bloem, Fabio Monforti-Ferrario, Marta Szabo and Arnulf Jäger-Waldau
European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Italy, 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
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