Topic: greenhouse gases

A new collaboration launches to develop guidelines for measuring and managing corporate GHG emissions throughout the product life cycle and across the entire value chain.

Ironically, the most ambitious U.S. action in the fight against global warming is coming from big cities and their mayors.

Climate change, national security, and energy are inter-connected through our persistent and growing dependence on fossil fuels. We must address all three.

“Today, ten states are taking a major step forward in the fight against global warming as they begin operations of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the country’s first mandatory GHG emissions market.

On Thursday, for the first time ever, the United States will see a price on carbon emerge from a mandatory emissions cap-and-trade program.

By encouraging clean technology deployment and imposing new costs on commonly traded commodities, climate policy would have significant impacts on international trade flows. This document answers basic questions about climate policy and its implications for the international trade of goods.

As different statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction policies continue to emerge in the United States, more and more businesses are calling on the federal government to enact a single, uniform policy. The prospect of complementary policies between different levels of government—as well as the potential for conflicting and even duplicative regulations—could have significant implications for business. This installment of WRI’s “Bottom Line” series explores the fundamental debates about, and potential outcomes of, different degrees of state and federal policy action.

Hong Kong’s government adopts guidelines for GHG accounting in its building sectors, and announces a “carbon audit” of 10 of its buildings.

WHAT: Nobody wants to admit that the United States has only made slow progress when it comes to improving on-road fuel efficiency.

The forest products sector holds an enormous stake in the coming economy defined by resource constraints, climate change policies, and shifting consumer values.

EGI offers a new hope for electricity in Brazil.

As the finance ministers of the G8 countries begin their annual meetings this Friday in Osaka, Japan, they are expected to endorse two multibillion dollar funds to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is both hailed as a “silver bullet” for the coal industry, and reviled as a pipe dream. The reality is that the U.S. needs CCS, and a comprehensive policy framework for rapid development and deployment.

A World Resources Institute (WRI) analysis of the complex challenges that investors would face when deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies shows that until government policies support large-scale demonstrations it is unlikely that CCS will be able to fulfill its potential in combating climate change.

Measuring GHG Emissions Up and Down the Supply Chain

Top 12 CO2-Emitting Countries & Their Per-Capita Emissions (2004)

Mayors "Get It" on Climate Change

The (Really) Big Picture on Energy Policy

Statement from WRI President Jonathan Lash on the First Day of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Trading

Ten States Formally Begin Carbon Trading

Bottom Line on International Trade

Bottom Line on State and Federal Policy Roles

Hong Kong Adopts GHG Protocol for Building Sector

MEDIA ADVISORY: When the Rubber Hits the Road: The Real Story on Fuel Economy in the U.S. and Other Countries

A New Climate for the Forest Products Industry

Electricity Goverance Initiative Launched in Brazil

Can the World Bank Lead on Climate Change?

Can Capturing Carbon Become a Reality?

Major Policy Intervention Required to Boost Carbon Capture Potential

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