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Key Documents archive results 1-15 of 15 in Climate Change & Energy and Greenhouse gases
The road to REDD
This feature article, published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, uses the Cordillera Azul national park in Peru as an example to introduce mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) that are under global discussion. The author discusses...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2009 | EN
From REDD to PINC
This policy brief, published by the Global Canopy Programme, proposes a system called Proactive Investment in Natural Capital (PINC), to reward countries for conserving large areas of tropical forest that act as 'global utilities' providing ecosystem services essential for preserving global food...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2008 | EN
Little REDD Book
This guide to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), published by the Global Canopy Programme, reviews many of the REDD proposals under discussion in global climate change negotiations. The authors highlight why strategies for REDD are needed, then outline and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2009 | EN
Enabling agriculture to contribute to climate change mitigation
This report, submitted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, looks at how smallholder agriculture could help mitigate climate change. It focuses on soil carbon sequestration, which, say the authors, has high mitigation potential and is relevant to smallholders, although it is currently...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
How to save the Amazon rainforest
This article, published by Mongabay.com, discusses the use of forest conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in the Amazon. The author describes the 'reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation' (REDD) mechanism included in the Bali roadmap for international...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Carbon and biodiversity: A demonstration atlas
This report, published by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, highlights areas where high carbon content and high biodiversity overlap. The authors argue that by identifying target areas, such spatial analyses can help tropical countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Factors underpinning future action — country fact sheets
This report, prepared by Ecofys for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, aims to inform discussions on commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends. It contains fact sheets for 60 countries that include data on key...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Atmospheric brown clouds: Regional assessment report with focus on Asia
This report, written by a team of international scientists and published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), explores the effects of 'atmospheric brown clouds'(ABCs) on regional climate, agriculture and human health. ABCs are large plumes of pollutant gases that result from burning fossil...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Fuelling controversy — can biofuels slow the speed of climate change?
This annotated bibliography of mostly online resources covers the relationship between biofuels and climate change. The bibliography is divided into ten sections: Biofuels; GM trees; carbon sinks and trading; land use change -- effects on atmospheric carbon; deforestation and greenhouse gas...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2007 | EN
Biofuels: the once and future energy source
This is an overview of biofuels production, focusing on its use in transport. It outlines the various biofuels manufacturing pathways, and provides data on global ethanol fuel from 1990-2006 and biodiesel production in 2006. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts biofuel production will...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2007 | EN
The Economics of Climate Change
This independent review, commissioned by the UK chancellor of the exchequer, examines the economic impacts of climate change, the economics of stabilising greenhouse gas emissions and considers policymaker's challenges in adapting to climate change and moving towards a low-carbon economy. The...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2006 | EN
Reducing Uncertainty About Carbon Dioxide as a Climate Driver
The author summarises the current state of knowledge regarding uncertainties in modelling future climates, and describes how several scientific approaches are being taken to address these issues.
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2002 | EN
International emissions trading and global climate change
Several factors influence the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. This report illustrates the importance of one such factor -- international emissions trading -- in reducing the costs of carbon control. The authors argue that an international greenhouse gas emissions trading regime will...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 1999 | EN
Report of IPCC working group 1: summary for policymakers
The Third Assessment Report of the IPCC's Working Group 1 builds on past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of climate change. It descibes the current state of udnerstanding of the cliamte system, and provides estiamtes of its projected future evolution and their...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Transportation in developing countries: an overview of greenhouse gas reduction strategies
Worldwide, greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster in transportation than in any other sector. Rapid motorisation -- more cars and trucks -- is the principal cause. This report focuses on the challenges faced by developing countries in accommodating and managing motorisation and the demand for...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2002 | EN
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Easier REDD than done
Designing a framework for reducing forest emissions that will live up to expectations will be hard
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
