Combined, aviation and marine transportation are responsible for approximately 5 percent of total greenhouse (GHG) emissions in the United States and 3 percent globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. Controlling the growth in these emissions will be an important part of reducing emissions from the transportation sector.

Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990

Exploiting Natural Resources: Growth, Instability, and Conflict in the Middle East and Asia presents views on the unsustainable exploitation of three key natural resources - forests, water, and extractable minerals - from the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) recognizes the critical linkages that exist between land use and climate change (including agricultural and forestry activities). Indeed, changes in the Earth

This report is the fifth in the series documenting the World Bank Group

Drawing on the evidence presented in the WWDR3, this paper restates the mounting evidence in many regions of the impact of climate change on the earth

Biofuels have been promoted as a way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Besides the claim of mitigating climate

This fifth IEA report under the clean energy technology roadmap series on wind energy discusses the rationale for investing in wind energy, actions and milestones envisioned for its development and the policy frameworks.

This report outlines lessons learnt regarding the principal effects of climate change on 15 cities in low-income countries, and what makes them vulnerable to these effects. It includes 12 cities from Africa and three from south Asia.

The energy demand in Asia and the Pacifi c is expected to rise as