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Global Carbon Pricing Among Countries With Different Economic Prospects

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In this paper, the authors estimate regional carbon prices that are based on regional cost-benefit analysis and strict liability of countries for damages caused by their emissions. The estimates indicate a big gap between the carbon prices chosen by oecd countries and those of other countries. Because regional carbon pricing is probably neither feasible nor desirable we introduce transfer payments to make a globally uniform carbon price more acceptable. It is estimated that OECD countries would more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 22, 2012

The Climate and Trade Relation: Some Issues

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The double challenge arising from climate change to both the environment and to human development requires that the global battle against climate change should address both these aspects. In this context, one of the important issues is the linkage between climate change policies and trade-related policies. This has become increasingly significant because in their attempts to address climate change, several developed countries are now considering the use of trade measures.The aim of this paper more...

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D C on May 17, 2012

No More "Green Capitalism"

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We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. With regard to the Green Climate Fund, as a first step, rich countries pledged to contribute up to $ 30 billion in 2012 and 100 billion per year until 2020. In the first place these amounts are insufficient. Further, no source of more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Achieving food security in the face of climate change

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On a planet with sufficient food for all, a billion people go hungry. Another billion over-consume, increasing risks from chronic diseases. The food system faces additional pressure as the global population grows, to around 9 billion by 2050, and as diets shift towards higher consumption of calories, fats and animal products. Food insecurity afflicts communities throughout the world wherever poverty prevents assured access to food supplies. As well as causing widespread human suffering, food more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

Rio+20: Analysis of Zero Draft Submissions

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Stakeholder Forum’s analysis of these Zero Draft submissions (totaling 677) is based on the concept of identifying common interests amongst submissions from different organizational type. This was based on the objective of being as inclusive of all submissions as possible.It is important to understand that “interest” in a term does not necessarily indicate “support”. The process for compiling the database was based on a phraseology search on the Zero Draft compilation document. Therefore, if an more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?

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In this paper, Nancy Birdsall discusses two themes. The first is the pre-crisis subtle shift in the prevailing model of capitalism in developing countries—away from orthodoxy or so-called market fundamentalism—that the crisis is likely to reinforce. The second theme is better framed as a question than a prediction: will the financial crisis, which is likely to be remembered as marking the end of Western economic dominance, be a trigger for a new twenty-first-century approach to collective more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

Rio+ 20 Suffers Leadership Void Weeks Ahead Of Summit

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When a landmark U.N conference on sustainable development kicks off in Brazil mid-June, more than 120 world leaders are expected to participate in the much-ballyhooed talkfest on the future of the global environment.'But yet we haven't had a single leader who has stood up and provided a vision and direction that these talks desperately need,' complained Tim Gore of the London-based Oxfam International.Canada recently attempted to remove important human rights language from a key Food and more...

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D C on March 29, 2012

The World Bank Group Energy Sector Strategy

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One in five people worldwide lack access to electricity. This is among the many challenges that financial institutions face when providing assistance to lower-income countries in order to promote economic and social development. The Energy Sector Strategy of the World Bank Group (ESS) comprises an overarching initiative to support energy poverty alleviation and environmentally sustainable development with provisions that include de-emphasizing coal-fired power generation, developing large-scale more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 09, 2012

Near-term climate protection and clean air benefits: Actions for controlling short-lived climate forcers

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This report addresses the mitigation of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) and its key role in air pollution reduction, climate protection and sustainable development. SLCFs are substances in the atmosphere that contribute to global warming and have relatively short lifetimes in the atmosphere. The focus is on three SLCFs – black carbon, tropospheric ozone and methane – because reducing them will provide significant benefits through improved air quality and a slowing of near-term climate more...

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D C on April 19, 2012

ROADMAP TO AGRICULTURE AT THE UNFCCC CLIMATE TALKS (Bonn, 14-25 May 2012)

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This note seeks to map where agriculture will be discussed both specifically and more indirectly at the forthcoming Bonn Climate Talks. It is indicative rather than exhaustive and is meant to help participants follow agenda items of relevance to agriculture.

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Jade Pilzer on May 08, 2012

Development Trajectories, Emission Profile, and Policy Actions: Thailand

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In Thailand climate change has been integrated into the formulation of several national plans and policies. Both the public and private sector have been actively involved in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with a series of measures and actions implemented in each sector. The development of renewable energy and the promotion of energy conservation and efficiency have been the primary means to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in Thailand and though it has made significant progresses toward more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 25, 2012

Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

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Across the United States, impacts of climate change are already evident. Heat waves have become more frequent and intense, cold extremes have become less frequent, and patterns of rainfall are likely changing. The proportion of precipitation that falls as rain rather than snow has increased across the western United States and Arctic sea ice has been reduced significantly. Sea level has been rising faster than at any time in recent history, threatening the natural and built environments on the more...

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John Daly on April 17, 2012

Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change

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Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activity--especially the use of fossil fuels, industrial processes, livestock production, waste disposal, and land use change--is affecting global average temperatures, snow and ice cover, sea-level, ocean acidity, growing seasons and precipitation patterns, ecosystems, and human health. Climate-related decisions are being carried out by almost every agency of the federal government, as well as many more...

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John Daly on April 17, 2012

CDKN reports to help developing countries plan for climate extremes

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is launching a three-part series of reports, “Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report” covering each of the Asia, Africa and Latin American and Caribbean regions.The CDKN reports highlight the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation" (known as ‘SREX’) for each region. more...

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Robert Watt on April 26, 2012

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia

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Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe. Emissions reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and more...

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John Daly on April 17, 2012

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