America on the Move : State Leadership in the Fight Against Global Warming, and What it Means for the World

Environment America / by Tony Dutzik, Rob Kerth, Kari Wohlschlege, Rob Sargent and Dan Jacobson http://tinyurl.com/ykvcyv2 [From introduction] States had once been forced to steer their clean energy efforts into the headwind created by the pro-fossil fuel policies of the Bush administration. But with the arrival of the Obama administration, state clean energy innovators now … Continue reading »

“The Danish Text” (draft Copenhagen climate agreement prepared by Danish hosts and leaked to The Guardian)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/23831690/091127copenhagen (on Scribd, registration required) http://tinyurl.com/yary4sr” (at the Guardian site) [Yale Environment 360] Delegates from developing nations at the Copenhagen conference were incensed after reading a leaked document purporting to show that a group of wealthy nations intends to sideline the UN in future climate change negotiations and place CO2 emissions restrictions on poorer nations. The … Continue reading »

California Water Myths

Public Policy Institute of California / by Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Ariel Dinar, Brian Gray, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount, Peter Moyle, and Barton “Buzz” Thompson http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=890 [Website] California faces enormous challenges in establishing a sustainable path for water resource management. One challenge is the rhetoric surrounding major water issues in the state. This study highlights … Continue reading »

It Should Be a Breeze : Harnessing the Potential of Open Trade and Investment Flows in the Wind Energy Industry

Peterson Institute of International Economics / by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Thilo Hanemann, and Lutz Weischer http://www.piie.com/publications/wp/wp09-14.pdf [Abstract]  This working paper maps out the structure and value chains of the wind industry, analyzes the wind industry’s increasing global integration via cross-border trade and investment flows, and offers recommendations to policymakers for the design of investment and trade policies … Continue reading »

Action and Ambition for a Global Deal in Copenhagen

United Nations Environment Programme, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment / by Nicholas Stern http://www.unep.org/pdf/climatechange/ActionAndAmbitionForGlobalDealInCopenhagen.pdf [WSJ Environmental Capital] Against all odds, the Copenhagen summit opened with a note of optimism…Exhibit B: A new report out from the UN Environment Programme, drafted by Lord Nicholas Stern, … Continue reading »

It’s One Climate Policy World Out There–Almost

Center for Global Development / by Nancy Birsdall and Jan von der Goltz http://tinyurl.com/ykn6gjd [RSS Feed] With the Copenhagen climate talks finally underway, a CGD survey of 500 development and climate aficionados in 88 countries finds unexpected agreement about what should be done—and important differences between respondents from developed and developing countries about how an … Continue reading »