Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Andrew Long
PBS Frontline & the Center for Investigative Reporting have launched a website linking to a variety of interviews, program segments and reports touching on some key issues emerging in carbon markets. The materials are accessible and well-crafted, making them very suitable to provide students’ with an introduction to issues such as REDD’s potential impacts on [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Wil Burns
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday voted to provide public companies with interpretive guidance on existing SEC disclosure requirements as they apply to business or legal developments relating to the issue of climate change. The press release can be found here. While it become increasingly unlikely that the Senate will act on climate change [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Wil Burns
MIT recently held an excellent panel discussion on the implications of the email messages hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. The panelists include Kerry Emanuel, Richard Lindzen, Judith Layzer, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Ronald Prinn.
Below is MIT’s summary of the panelists’ observations.
“What we have here,” says Kerry Emanuel, are “thousands of emails [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Wil Burns
The independent research group Climatico has released a very good summary of the COP15 proceedings: Copenhagen: Copenhagen De-Briefing: An nalysis of COP15 for Long-Term Cooperation (2010). The report is a perfect length to assign as a student reading and isn’t freighted with insider nomenclature.
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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Wil Burns
Climate Law And Developing Countries
Richardson, B.J. Le Bouthillier, Y. McLeod-Kilmurray, H. Wood, S.
This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change. With contributions from over twenty international scholars from developing and developed countries, the book tackles both [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Wil Burns
There are a couple of excellent new reports that help to respond to several canards of climate skeptics in recent years:
1. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast’s recently released an analysis of global temperature rise, using surface temperature measurements, together with data from sources such as satellites, radiosondes, ships and buoys. The analysis critiques [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Wil Burns
Since 1999, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has worked with its member country governments to collect information on renewable energy and energy efficiency policies and measures. This information is stored in freely accessible online through the Energy Efficiency Policies and Measures (www.iea.org/Textbase/pm/index_effi.asp) and the Global Renewable Energy Policies and Measures (www.iea.org/Textbase/pm/grindex.aspx) databases.
Among the most popular [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Wil Burns
Dear colleagues,
You may recall our climate change building illustration from last December. The new version of the building illustration is ready (http://www.diplomacy.edu/climate/). It includes a reflection on post-Copenhagen developments as well as suggestions received from many of you, for which we would like to thank you.
The building is a work in progress. Please, have a [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2010 by Wil Burns
THE WORLD’S FIRST FREE CARBON MANAGEMENT ONLINE LIBRARY AT www.3carbonelements.co.uk
3CE is proud to launch the world’s first free “Carbon Management Online Library”. This is a constantly updated collection of policy and research papers, publications and presentations in various carbon management fields such as Kyoto projects (CDM, JI, PoA), Emission Trading and Carbon Markets, EU, UK [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Wil Burns
The International Food Policy Research Institute recently released an excellent report on the potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production in developing countries and the costs of adaptation, Nelson, et al., Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation (2009).
The key take-aways from the study are as follows:
Climate change could result in massive increases in [...]
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