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WA. HB 2815: A Framework for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Washington Economy
Bill that established goals for statewide greenhouse gas emissions reductions. By 2050, the goal is to reduce GHG emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels, or 70 percent below the
state's expected GHG emissions that year.
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Chapter 14, 2008 Washington State Laws: 2007
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
The authors compiled a comprehensive database of large wildfires in western United States forests since 1970 and compared it with hydroclimatic and land-surface data. They show that large wildfire activity increased suddenly and markedly in the mid-1980s, with higher large-wildfire frequency, longer wildfire durations, and longer wildfire seasons. ...
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A. L. Westerling, H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam
Science: Vol. 313. no. 5789, pp. 940 - 943: 18 August 2006
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For the Public
Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors
Excerpted from the Executive Summary: “This Ceres/Pacific Institute report, done at the request of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world.”
Drought attributable in significant part t ...
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Jason Morrison, Mari Morikawa, Michael Murphy, and Peter Schulte of the Pacific Institute
Baston, MA: Ceres, February 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors
Executive Sum mary
"Water is crucial for the economy. Virtually every industry from agriculture, electric power and industrial manufacturing to beverage, apparel, and tourism relies on it to grow and ultimately sustain their business.
"Yet water is becoming scarcer globally and every indication is that it will become even more so in the ...
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Morrison, Jason, Mari Morikawa, Michael Murphy, and Peter Schulte
Boston, MA: CERES. February, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors
Excerpted from the Executive Summary: "Water is crucial for the economy. Virtually every industry from agriculture, electric power and industrial manufacturing to beverage, apparel, and tourism relies on it to grow and ultimately sustain their business."
"Yet water is becoming scarcer globally and every indication is that it will become eve ...
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Jason Morrison, Mari Morikawa, Michael Murphy, and Peter Schulte
CERES, Boston, MA., USA, February 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,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
WEF Green Investing Charts 2010
This set of charts provides an overview of policy mechanisms for promoting investment in early R&D, Demonstration and Scale-Up, Commercial Roll-Out, and Diffusion stages of green technology.
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World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, Cologny/Geneva, Switzerland: 31 January 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
What Are Americans Thinking and Doing about Global Warming?
In May and June 2007 a nationally representative sample of approximately 12,000 adults were surveyed. In July and August of that year approximately 1,000 of their children were surveyed, giving the first-ever American household survey (i.e., parent and child) on global warming. The margin of error for the adult data is +/- 1% and for the children's ...
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Edward Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, Deanne Weber
Center of Excellence in Climate Change Communication Research, George Mason University: 2007
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
What Comes after the Two-Degree Target? The EU's Climate Policy Should Advocate for Flexible Benchma... New!
From the Abstract: "In the climate policy community, there is broad consensus regarding the target of limiting global warming levels to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Still, barring a breakthrough in UN negotiations in the near future and a reversal in current emissions trends, compliance with the two-degree target ...
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Oliver Geden
German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany, August 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
What Drives the Efficiency of Hard Coal Fueled Electricity Generation? An Empirical Assessment
Abstract: The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country and over time. These differences occur both between developing and developed countries and between industrialised nations. The econometric analysis presented in this paper tests for the reasons of these discrepancies. In t ...
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Tim Hoffmann and Sebastian Voigt
Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 09-011, March 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence...
This paper discusses factors influencing the diffusion of green technology across international boundaries.Abstract:"Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990–2003, we characterize the factors which promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology ...
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Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Matthieu Glachant, Yann Ménière
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Nota di Lavoro, Paris, France: 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
What Happened to the Seasons?
This report discusses the affects of climate change on native people and the traditional farming techniques which have sustained them. With rainfall amounts, patterns, and the timing of the rainy season all changing, crops are threatened and entire communities are in danger. Interviews with farmers underpin the research and the specificity of t ...
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Steve Jennings and John Magrath
Oxfam Great Britian Research Report, Oxford, October, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: Asia and Oceania,AfricaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
What is Carbon Cap and Trade? A Primer for Economic Developers
As an introduction to those working in economic development, this cap and trade primer is a thorough review of the basic components needed to understand cap and trade programs. It also explores how local economies might prepare for and benefit from a national cap and trace policy. The document is ordered around six talking points shown below, i ...
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International Economic Development Council
International Economic Development Council, Washington, DC, November 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
What is Climate Risk Management? New!
The author defines climate risk management as "a process that informs decision making through the application of climate knowledge and information" and broken down into four components excerpted below:
Identifying vulnerabilities and potential opportunities posed by climate variability or change in a given part of the world and in a given ...
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Stephen Zebiak
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
What Is Needed to Make REDD+ Work on the Ground? Lessons Learned from Pilot Forest Carbon Initiative...
From the Website:
"At the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen on December 2009,
the international community reinforced its commitment to tackle emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation. In order to provide preliminary insights
into what will be needed to make REDD+ work on the ground, here we analyze the
e ...
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Celia A. Harvey, Olaf Zerbock, Stavros Papageorgiou and Angel Parra
Conservation.org, 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Specialized Analysts
What is the "Damages Function" for Global Warming and What Difference Might It Make?
From the Abstract: "The existing literature on climate change o¤ers little guidance about why one specifi
cation or another of a "damages function: has been selected. Ideally, one wants a functional form that captures reality adequately, yet analytically is sufficiently tractable to yield useful results. This paper gives two plausible risk aversi ...
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Martin L. Weitzman
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, US, July 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
What is the Best Environmental Policy? Taxes, Permits and Rules under Economic and Environmental Unc...
This paper compares the effects of uncertainty and public finance on welfare rankings for pollution taxes, pollution permits, and Kyoto-like carbon caps.Abstract:"We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rul ...
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Konstantinos Angelopoulos, George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos
CESIFO Working Paper No. 2980, Munich: March 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
What Should We Expect From Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation ...
This paper discusses the effectiveness of technological innovation policies in climate stabilization plans.
Abstract:
"This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To wh ...
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Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Romain Duval, and Massimo Tavoni
CESIFO Working Paper No. 2998, Milan: March 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
What We've Learned From the Stimulus
Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Ill., January 2010
What’s Driving Sustainable Energy Consumption? A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Abstract: The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers and its relation to sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it depends largely on supply-side measures and an appropriate infrastructure (e.g. the availability of energy-efficient household equipment) and on socio-political ...
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Bettina Brohmann, Stefanie Heinzle, Klaus Rennings, Joachim Schleich, and Rolf Wüstenhagen
Center for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 09-013, March 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
What’s next? The Outcome of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and Its Implications for the Land...
From the Introduction:
"The recent United Nations conference on climate change that took place in Copenhagen in December 2009 was the 15th meeting of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP 15, and the 5th meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol (MOP5). The conference was attended by over 4 ...
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Anne Binsted, Daniel Bongardt, Holger Dalkmann and Matthieu Wemaëre
Bridging the Gap Initiative, January 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,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
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