Technology in the UN Climate Change Negotiations: Moving Beyond Abstraction

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University Policy Brief / by Morgan Bazilian
http://tinyurl.com/yacakdu
[Abstract] This brief considers the technology negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) within the wider context of low-carbon energy technology. In doing so, it focuses on how technology issues can be effectively embedded within a potential agreement at the [...]

Transforming Energy Innovation

Issues in Science and Technology (forthcoming Fall 2009, v26 n1 pp. 57-64) by Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, Laura Diaz Anadon and Ambuj D. Sagar [published elsewhere on the Belfer Center website as, "Institutions for Energy Innovation: A Transformational Challenge" .]
http://tinyurl.com/ydx8r78
[Abstract] “The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from [...]

Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy

World Resources Institute / Center for Strategic and International Studies / by Britt Childs Staley, Sarah Ladislaw, Kathryn Zyla, and Jenna Goodward
http://www.wri.org/publication/energy-security-implications-carbon-constrained-us-economy
[Website] In this paper, eight scenarios are examined for technological development and energy use in the United States in 2035. All envision limiting the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per [...]

Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes : a Step toward America’s Energy Sustainability

Brookings Institution / by James Duderstadt, Mark Muro, Gary Was, Andrea Sarzynski, Robert McGrath, Michael Corradini,  Linda Katehi and Rick Shangraw
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/0209_energy_innovation_muro.aspx?rssid=LatestFromBrookings
[Abstract]  The need to renew America’s economy, foster its energy security, and respond to global climate change compels the transformation of U.S. energy policy. Innovation and its commercialization must move to the center of national [...]

A Blueprint for a Climate Friendly Cement Industry (aka How to Turn Around the Trend of Cement Related Emissions in the Developing World)

Ecofys for World Wildlife Fund International / by Nicolas Müller and Jochen Harnisch
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/?151542
The global cement industry can avoid up to 90% of emissions projected according to a new WWF report.
A blueprint for a climate friendly cement industry says that the highly energy intensive industry, responsible for 8% of global emissions, has the tools available to [...]

Space Technologies and Climate Change: Implications for Water Management, Marine Resources and Maritime Transport

OECD
http://www.sourceoecd.org/9789264054134
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[Abstract]  This book examines the contributions that space technologies can make in tackling some of the serious problems posed by climate change. Focusing on examples of water management, marine [...]

Smart Grid: Enabler of the New Energy Economy

US DOE Electricity Advisory Committee
http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/final-smart-grid-report.pdf
[From press release] This report presents the Committee’s recommendations to DOE on how to transform the nation’s electric power grid into a more intelligent, resilient, reliable, self-balancing, and interactive network that enables enhanced economic growth, environmental stewardship, operational efficiencies, energy security, and consumer choice. The Report addresses barriers and opportunities to [...]

Desert Power : The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East

Center for Global Development / by Kevin Ummel and David Wheeler
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1417884
[Abstract] North Africa Solar Power MapA climate crisis is inevitable unless developing countries limit carbon emissions from the power sector in the near future. This will happen only if the costs of low-carbon power production become competitive with fossil fuel power.
In this CGD working paper, [...]

Near-linear Cost Increase to Reduce Climate-change Risk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December 30 2008) v105  n52  20621-20626 / by Michiel Schaeffera, Tom Kramb, Malte Meinshausenc, Detlef P. van Vuurenb, and William L. Harec
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/52/20621.abstract
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The world community has a 90 percent chance of limiting global warming to 2 C (3.6 F) if it invests 2 percent of global gross domestic [...]

Congressional Policy Brief Series (on Climate Change)

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
http://www.pewclimate.org/DDCF-Briefs
[Website] Developed by Pew Center staff with input from a variety of outside experts, these briefs walk policymakers through important design choices and the strengths and weaknesses of various policy approaches. The modular format will allow additional briefs to be developed over time in response to questions from policymakers [...]