Council on Environment Quality | Office of Management and Budget http://1.usa.gov/ha5Uyh EPA Scorecard (for example) On April 19, 2011, 24 Federal agencies and departments released, for the first time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Sustainability and Energy Scorecards. These scorecards enable agencies to target and track the best opportunities to lead by example … Continue reading »
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Gaining Traction: Will Consumers Ride the Electric Vehicle Wave?
Deloitte http://www.deloitte.com/electricvehicle [Green Car Congress] Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global Manufacturing Industry group conducted a global survey to explore consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The online survey captures the views of more than 12,000 consumers across the Americas, Asia and Europe in 17 countries. It examines, among other things, how likely consumers would … Continue reading »
Direct Impacts on Local Climate of Sugar-cane Expansion in Brazil
Nature Climate Change (Published online before print: April 17 2011) doi:10.1038/nclimate1067 / by Scott R. Loarie, David B. Lobell, Gregory P. Asner, Qiaozhen Mu& Christopher B. Field http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1067.html [Green Car Congress] A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously … Continue reading »
Governing Geoengineering Research: A Political and Technical Vulnerability Analysis of Potential Near-Term Options
Rand Corp. / by Robert J. Lempert and Don Prosnitz http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR846.html Geoengineering, the deliberate altering of the earth’s climate, represents a risky and, for many, a frightening proposition. But the concept has attracted increasing interest in recent years because of its potential ability to transform the portfolio of options for limiting the magnitude of future … Continue reading »
The 80 Percent Challenge: A Survey of Climate Change Opinion and Action in Massachusetts
MassINC / by Steve Koczela, Benjamin Forman and Caroline Koch http://www.massinc.org/Research/The-80-percent-challenge.aspx …This report, made possible with generous support from the Barr Foundation, represents the first in-depth look at how Massachusetts residents perceive the problem posed by global warming, as well as their willingness to embrace efforts to address this unprecedented challenge. With the Global Warming … Continue reading »
2011 U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report
US EPA http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html Press Release [Green Car Congress] The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 16th annual US greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. The final report shows overall emissions during 2009 decreased by 6.1% from the previous year. This downward trend was attributed to a decrease in fuel and electricity consumption across all US … Continue reading »
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Update on Federal Financial Risks and Claims Processing
Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-397R With reported Fund costs of about $629.5 million as of March 31, 2011, NPFC had obligated or incurred costs that could result in over 60 percent of the amount available under the Fund’s statutory $1-billion-per-incident-expenditure-cap. If, regardless of any reimbursements from responsible parties, total Fund expenditures exceed the $1-billion cap, agencies … Continue reading »
A Year of Living Dangerously: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2010
Brookings Institution | London School of Economics, Internal Project on Displacement http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2011/04_nd_living_dangerously/04_nd_living_dangerously.pdf Natural disasters were especially ferocious this past year. From the Haiti earthquake to the floods in Pakistan, nearly 300 million people were affected by natural disasters in 2010. In this annual review, Elizabeth Ferris and Daniel Petz highlight the work of the Project on Internal Displacement on … Continue reading »
