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Climate change and foreign policy: an exploration of options for greater integration
Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2007This report explores ways in which an integrated climate change-foreign policy approach might improve prospects for a more effective global climate regime.DocumentEnergy revolution: a sustainable world energy outlook
Greenpeace International, 2007This report discusses the need for a change in the energy sector towards sustainable technologies such as renewable energies sources and efficient decentralised cogeneration.DocumentThe carbon neutral myth: offset indulgences for your climate sins
Carbon Trade Watch, 2007This report from Carbon Trade Watch argues that carbon offsets are actually indulgences sold to an increasingly environmentally aware public to allow us to continue our polluting activities with a clear conscience.But below the surface, the report concludes that creative accountancy and complex games cover up the fact that verifying genuine climate change benefits is practically impossible.DocumentA funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
World Rainforest Movement, 2006This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.DocumentComing clean: revealing the UK’s true carbon footprint
Christian Aid, 2007The report argues that official greenhouse gas figures hugely underestimate Britain's contribution to climate change. It shows that adding in emissions from UK-funded operations in other countries – i.e. all emissions associated with FTSE-100 companies - raises the UK's share of the global total from 2% to about 15%.DocumentAsian aspirations for climate regime beyond 2012
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006This report is based on the second round of 'The Asia-Pacific Consultations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012' in 2006 on specific issues of high priority to the region. These include energy security and development; clean development mechanisms; technology development and transfer, and adaptation to climate change.DocumentGuidance for promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change.DocumentForests and climate change: global understandings and possible responses
Policy Studies Institute, UK, 2006This is the draft report of a scoping study for the Forestry Commission on forests and climate change. The report discusses the role that sustainable forest management can play in mitigating climate change.DocumentBiofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century
Worldwatch Institute, 2006This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.DocumentSeeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.Pages
