American Lung Association http://www.stateoftheair.org/2010/assets/SOTA2010.pdf (full report) http://www.stateoftheair.org/2010/facts/ (air quality facts) [From Key Findings] The State of the Air 2010 shows that the air quality in many places has improved, but that over 175 million people—roughly 58 percent—still suffer pollution levels that are too often dangerous to breathe…The report looks at levels of ozone and particle … Continue reading »
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A Comparison of California and British Columbia’s Low Carbon Fuel Standards
NRDC and Environmental Defence Canada http://tinyurl.com/28mzok2 [From Switchboard blog posting by Simon Mui] Today Environmental Defence Canada and NRDC are releasing a comparison of the low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) of California and British Columbia. The verdict? BC’s is a hundred pound weakling next to Schwarzenegger’s muscle. This is a shame in light of other … Continue reading »
Defense Infrastructure : Department of Defense Renewable Energy Initiatives
US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-681R [From E&E Daily story by Dina Fine Maron] The Defense Department says it currently has 454 renewable energy initiatives in operation or under development at or near its installations, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. The report culls information on the Pentagon’s renewable energy projects, … Continue reading »
Will Border Carbon Adjustments Work?
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change / by N. Winchester, S. Paltsev and J. Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/abstract.php?publication_id=2033 [Abstract] The potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) restrictions in some nations to drive emission increases in other nations, or leakage, is a contentious issue in climate change negotiations. We evaluate the potential for border … Continue reading »
Ecosystem Accounting and the Cost of Biodiversity Losses — the Case of Coastal Mediterranean Wetlands
European Environment Agency http://tinyurl.com/28cknxv [Abstract] This report focuses on ways we can use land and ecosystem accounting techniques to describe and monitor the consequences of biodiversity loss in the coastal wetlands of the Mediterranean. These ecosystems are characterised by the close coupling of economic, social and ecological processes, and any accounting system has to represent … Continue reading »
Climate Change Indicators in the United States
US EPA http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators/pdfs/CI-summary.pdf [Yale Environment 360] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, and as the accompanying graphic shows, many parts of the country have experienced sharp temperature increases over the past century The Northeast, Midwest, and West all experienced significant warming from 1901 to 2008, … Continue reading »
Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate
NBER working papers / by by Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker (RFFers can access this paper full text onsite at RFF or by VPNing to the network then clicking on the link below.) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15921 [Abstracts] Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker present a new framework to identify demand and supply elasticities of agricultural commodities … Continue reading »
The Effect of Biofuel on the International Oil Market
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, CUDARE Working Papers / by Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, and David Zilberman http://tinyurl.com/28xf8uy [Abstract] This paper derives a method to quantify the impact of biofuel on fuel markets, assuming that these markets are dominated by cartel of oil-rich countries, and that prices in these countries … Continue reading »
