Emissions trading schemes have great potential to lower pollution while minimizing compliance costs for firms in many areas now subject to traditional command-and-control regulation. This paper connects experience with emissions trading, from programs like the
U.S. Acid Rain program, to lessons for implementation of a Trading Pilot Scheme in India.
The nexus of climate change, agriculture and food security is one of the quintessential challenges of sustainable development. Rapid growth in many of the world
As the U.S. debates an economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade policy, the transportation sector remains a significant oil security and climate change concern. Even though the transportation sector consumes the majority of the U.S.
This publication presents a framework for an understanding
of the connectivity between tropical coastal ecosystems
(including mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs) across
The UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has published a briefing on the implications of the negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) for forest restoration.
This report considers the measures that have been and might be undertaken to promote environmental co-benefits from REDD. Such measures may be linked to decisions on financing. The report surveys the measures that are found in existing REDD initiatives, including in the proposed UNFCCC REDD mechanism itself.
This paper seeks to shed light on the costs of carbon capture by reviewing and comparing the available material on costs of capture for both mature technology and early plants, attempting to account for differences where possible. It mainly refers to US costs, for which the greatest amount of published analysis is available.
Genetic engineering has been promoted as an important means for dramatically improving the yields of staple food crops, but there is little evidence to support such a claim. In Failure to Yield, the Union of Concerned Scientists provides the most comprehensive evaluation to date of more than two decades of U.S. genetic engineering research and commercialization aimed at increasing crop yield.
