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Carbon Offsetting Trends Survey 2008

Find out what 65 leading multinational organisations are doing in terms of their carbon management strategies. This primary quantitative research study provides industry insight and benchmarks regarding some of the strategies that are being utilised to help the transition to a low carbon economy.(EcoSecurities and ClimateBiz, September 2008)

http://www.ecosecurities.com/Standalone/Carbon_Offsetting_Trends_Survey_2008/default.aspx

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Plane truths: Do the economic arguments for aviation growth really fly?

Plane truths reveals that increased air travel and tourism leaves UK taxpayers out of pocket, and benefits multinational tour operators and hotel chains, rather than poor people. And, as the fastest-rising source of emissions in the UK, aviation is a significant contributor to climate change that threatens the survival of some of the world's poorest communities least responsible for causing the problem, but living on its front line. (Victoria Johnson and Martin Cottingham, NEF, 2008).

http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=261

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The impact of trade opening on climate change

The past half century has been marked by an unprecedented expansion of international trade. Trade economists have developed a conceptual framework for examining how trade opening can affect the environment. (World Bank, 2008)

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/envir_e/climate_impact_e.htm

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Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World [pdf]

The report entitled "Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World" is the first comprehensive study on the emergence of a "green economy" and its impact on the world of work. It includes new data that shows a changing pattern of employment in which green jobs are being generated in many sectors and economies around the world as a result of measures to tackle climate change and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This has also led to changing patterns of investment flows into areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency at the household and industrial level. Within current policy frameworks, only a fraction of the potential benefits for jobs and development is forthcoming.(UNEP 2008)

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_098503.pdf

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Green Recovery - A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

Green Recovery - A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy was prepared by PERI under commission by the Center for American Progress and released by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. The authors of the report are Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber of PERI. Focusing for now on a short-term clean energy and jobs program, Green Recovery reports that a short-term green stimulus package would create two million jobs nationwide over two years. Later in the fall, PERI and CAP will co-publish a fuller study that addresses the longer-term challenges and opportunities created by building a clean-energy economy.(PERI, 2008)

http://www.peri.umass.edu/green_recovery/

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Recent bilateral initiatives for climate financing: are they moving in the right direction? [pdf]

This Opinion argues that the haste to create new funding mechanisms for climate change programmes may be at the expense of conceptual thinking on how the funds should be delivered. Providing more of the same will not do. (Neil Bird and Leo Peskett. ODI Publications - Opinion 112, September 2008).

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/opinions/112-climate-change-bilateral-financing.pdf

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Degrees of separation, Climate change: Shared challenges, shared opportunities.

A DFID document looking at the interlinks between people around the work, climate change and development. It highlights our links and shared opportunity to tackle the problem.(DFID, August 2008)

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/degrees-of-separation.pdf

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Survival of the fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change and generate sustainable livelihoods (Oxfam, August 2008).

http://www.oxfam.org/files/bp116-pastoralism-climate-change-eafrica-0808.pdf

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Climate Resilient Cities: Sustainable Development East Asia and Pacific region[pdf]

This document is a self assessment tool to judge whether East Asian/Pacific cities are climate change hot-spots and to help create strategies to increase their resilience to those impacts (World Bank, 2008)

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/Resources/climatecities_fullreport.pdf

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A Green New Deal: Joined-up policies to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices

The global economy is facing a 'triple crunch'. It is a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and soaring energy prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production. These three overlapping events threaten to develop into a perfect storm, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression. To help prevent this from happening we are proposing a Green New Deal. You need to register with NEF to see this publication, (NEF, July 2008)

http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=258

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Working with the Winds of Change. Towards Strategies for Responding to the Risks Associated with Climate Change and other Hazards

This book provides initial insights from an ongoing ISET programme on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in South Asia. The study is being undertaken in the Nepal Tarai, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, coastal Tamilnadu and coastal Gujarat of India, and the Lai Basin and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan (Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET), 2007).

http://www.proventionconsortium.org/themes/default/pdfs/winds_of_change.pdf

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Lieberman-Warner's Nuclear Subsidies Condemned

The leaders of six national environmental and public interest groups warned today that the impending Lieberman-Warner climate change bill could contain at least $544 billion in taxpayer subsidies for nuclear energy. This would represent the biggest federal handout in history for the nuclear industry, already the most heavily subsidized energy sector over the past 50 years.

http://action.foe.org/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=371

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A Way Forward: Canadian perspectives on post-2012 climate policy

This document was developed under the Post-2012 Climate Dialogue Project, a twoyear initiative implemented by IISD. The project aimed to contribute to an increased understanding of Canada's situation vis-à-vis the climate change issue and Canadian approaches to a post-2012 climate regime.

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2007/a_way_forward.pdf

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Aiding oil, harming the climate : A Database of Public Funds for Fossil Fuels (pdf)

This report describes the role of the World Bank and other international financial institutions have in reshaping the oil sectors in developing countries and providing development assistance to finance their operations. (Oil Change International, December 2007)

http://www.endoilaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/aidingoilreport.pdf

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Scientist stuns experts by saying trees worsen greenhouse effect

A leading expert in Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has reaffirmed findings by his team in Mainz, Germany, in January 2006 that they had detected methane exhaled from living plants. (Earth Times, 14 May 2007)

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/62336.html

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Drastic Action on Climate Change is Needed Now - and Here's the Plan

Nicholas Stern's report has demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it. Still, the principal costs of climate change will be measured in lives, not pounds. There would be a moral imperative to seek to prevent mass death even if the economic case did not stack up. So how do we do it without bringing civilisation crashing down? Here is a plan for drastic but affordable action that the government could take. It goes much further than the proposals discussed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, for the reason that this is what the science demands. (George Monbiot, Guardian, 31 October 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1031-21.htm

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Can the Free Market Slow Deforestation?

Tropical forests' ability to store carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change makes them more valuable than alternative uses like pasture or lumber, and rich countries ought to pay tropical countries to preserve their forests, a recent World Bank report, "At Loggerheads", says. This article discusses this report and talks to environmentalists who disagree with its findings. (Stephen Leahy, IPS, 25 October 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35224

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Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence". The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as "inaccurate and misleading". (David Adam, Guardian, 20 September 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm

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'Energy Security' Plan Panned over Climate, Nuclear Concerns

Leaders of the Group of Eight have drawn fire from international civil society groups after they embraced an energy plan that favors continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels with no hint of any solid steps to deal with the impending threat of climate change. (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US, 18 July 2006)

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/136639/1/4536

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