Surface Freight Transportation: A Comparison of the Costs of Road, Rail, and Waterways Freight Shipments That Are Not Passed on to Consumers

US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11134.pdf Road, rail, and waterway freight transportation is vital to the nation’s economy. Government tax, regulatory, and infrastructure investment policies can affect the costs that shippers pass on to their customers. If government policy gives one mode a cost advantage over another, by, for example, not recouping all the costs of [...]

Towards a Green Economy

United Nations Environment Programme http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/22022011122536PMMVANFK.htm The report identifies the following sectors as key to greening the global economy: agriculture, buildings, energy supply, fisheries, forestry, industry including energy efficiency, tourism, transport, waste management and water

Yemen Country Analysis Brief

US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Yemen/Background.html Yemen is a minor oil and gas producer but the country is located along the Bab al Mandab, a strategic world oil shipping route. It is important to the global oil trade because of this location. Bab al Mandab is one of the world’s most strategic shipping lanes, through [...]

On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Survey (2009)

USDA / National Agricultural Statistics Center http://tinyurl.com/6x964wr [From Introduction] The 2009 On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Survey (OREPS) is a follow-on survey to the 2007 Census of Agriculture. It is the first on-farm renewable energy production survey conducted on the national level by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The 2009 [...]

Libya Country Analysis Brief

US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Libya/Background.html The Libyan economy is heavily dependent on the hydrocarbon industry which, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), accounted for over 95 percent of export earnings in 2010. According to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Libya holds around 46.4 billion barrels of oil reserves, the largest in Africa, [...]

Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 2009

US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/finance/performanceprofiles/?src=email Performance Profiles reviews financial and operating data for 2009 and discusses important trends and emerging issues relevant to U.S. energy company operations. Major U.S.-based oil and natural gas producers and petroleum refiners submit data annually on the Form EIA-28, the Financial Reporting System (FRS).

United Nations Environment Programme Year Book 2011: Emerging Issues in our Global Environment

UN Environment Programme http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/24022011120712PMUNRN43.htm The UNEP year book for 2011 is now available.The 8th Edition of the UN Environment Programme flagship report, the UNEP Year Book, examines these global emerging issues and provides the latest science in a policy-relevant context. It also highlights major environmental events and developments over the past year, and presents the [...]

Paying for Carbon Emissions Reduction

Rand Corp. / by Flavia Tsang and Peter Burge http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP312.html This paper explores how much British citizens might be willing to pay for carbon emissions reduction, and the implication of this for climate change policies. Much of the current valuation of carbon focuses on cost measures, notably the marginal social cost of carbon, which measures [...]

Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation

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=944 California has struggled to manage its water effectively for more than 30 years. Today, the state needs to consider a set of wide-ranging reforms—for the benefit of the economy [...]

Reefs at Risk Revisited

World Resources Institute / by Lauretta Burke, Katie Reytar, Mark Spalding, and Allison Perry http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-at-risk-revisited [Summary] Under the Reefs at Risk Revisited project, WRI and its partners have developed a new, detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world’s coral reefs. This information is intended to raise awareness about the location and [...]