Topic: greenhouse gases

Payments for ecosystem services are becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. business and regulatory landscape. As programs that provide payments for ecosystem services grow, policy makers will need to determine how these various payments should interact with each other.

S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA) also known as the Kerry Boxer bill , provides a number of important provisions that will ensure that offsets used in the U.S. cap-and-trade program represent real, additional, measurable and verified greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.

This chart is adapted from a previously published version in [Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and U.S.

Athena Ballesteros explains how international climate finance could make or break a deal in Copenhagen.

From September to November 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is conducting an initial scoping of issues to improve in its updated sustainability policies.

Today, each Chinese citizen produces only one fifth the GHG emissions of an average American consumer, and China still has many unmet energy needs.

As December’s climate change talks approach, a new WRI report discusses the successes and challenges to effective regulation in China.

Petrobras, Ford Brasil, Wal-Mart Brasil, and Whirlpool are some of the first companies to voluntarily measure and publicly report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using the Brazil GHG Protocol Program, a project of the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Cap-and-trade programs are designed to increase the economic efficiency of emissions reductions and lower costs beyond command-and-control approaches alone. Cap-and-trade programs often incorporate features that add flexibility and/or increase price certainty to help address cost concerns. This fact sheet describes several common examples of cost containment mechanisms.

This issue brief evaluates five approaches to account for state-achieved reductions and address the state-to-state “leakage” problem under a federal cap-and-trade program.

Commitments made by developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, when added together, fall short of stabilizing global temperatures at a level that averts dangerous climate change.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is stepping up its work on greening the supply chains of companies both big and small, thanks to a grant from Walmart.

WRI Senior Associate John Larsen answers questions about recent emissions reductions and what they mean for climate legislation.

Financial institutions are learning to protect investors–and themselves–from investments exposed to risk from climate change.

WHAT:

Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a journalist-only climate change policy briefing next Friday that will arm you with fresh analysis and insight for this fall’s crowded climate agenda. WRI president Jonathan Lash will give an overview of domestic and international prospects for progress, and how they intersect. WRI’s new Climate and Energy Program Director, Jennifer Morgan, and our new China Country Director Zou Ji (bios attached) will provide unique insight into the UN climate negotiations and Chinese progress and thinking on climate action. This will be followed by a domestic policy panel. WRI analysts will deconstruct the American Clean Energy and Security Act (emission reductions, allowances, offsets, benefits to states etc) and our states policy team will dissect what federal climate legislators can learn from successful state climate actions

The briefing will be followed by a question and answer session and a happy hour for reporters to follow up individually with our climate experts.

Fact Sheet: Stacking Payments for Ecosystem Services

Ensuring Greenhouse Gas Offset Quality in the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

Per Capita CO2 Emissions For Select Major Emitters, 2007 and 2030 (Projected)

Following the Money in an International Climate Agreement

Review of IFC Performance Standards and Sustainability Policy Overview of Key Issues

Comparison of Chinese and U.S. Energy Statistics

China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge

Top Companies in Brazil Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the First Time

Bottom Line on Cost Containment

Keeping the Lights on in the State Laboratory

Developed Country GHG Reduction Pledges Fall Short, New Analysis Reveals

WRI Advances Green Supply Chain Initiative

New Energy Forecasts Show Time is Right for Senate Action

Closing the Bankers' Loophole in Emissions Reporting

MEDIA ADVISORY; Climate Briefing and Opportunity to Meet WRI’s New Climate Director and China Country Director

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