Managing the Growing Impacts of Development on Fragile Coastal and Marine Ecosystems: Lessons from the Gulf

United Nations Univ., Institute for Water, Environment and Health / by Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3960397/UNU-INWEH%20Policy%20Report.pdf [From an article in Nature] Untrammelled development, weak regulatory oversight and a lack of scientific monitoring are seriously threatening ecosystems along … Continue reading »

America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters: How Cleaning up the Dirtiest Power Plants will Protect Public Health

Environment America http://bit.ly/t9jFOw [From an E&E Daily article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd]   Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania release the most mercury air emissions in the country, and just five companies account for more than one-third of all mercury emissions in the United States, according to an environmental group report released today. “America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters,” … Continue reading »

Governing Clean Development: What Have We Learnt?

University of East Anglia | University of Sussex / by Peter Newell and Jon Phillips www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gcd/PolicyBriefing003 [From Press Release] Environmental, economic and development experts will debate whether the commitment to carbon markets is the right approach to tackle climate change at the public event ‘Carbon Markets for the Poor – A Contradiction in Terms?’ on … Continue reading »

Responding to Climate Change in New York State: Technical Report

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority http://bit.ly/tglsgc (full report) http://bit.ly/rH4EbR (summary) [Environmental News Network article] …New York released its own climate study this week, predicting that with expected sea level rise and stronger storms, future hurricanes could flood the tunnels into Manhattan within an hour and put one-third of the city underwater, with … Continue reading »