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Articles and ResearchClimate change in the news and media: Birmingham Post, April 2009 According to a survey conducted by energy company NPower, UK businesses are losing interest in cutting their emissions in the face of recession. According the research 83% of the companies who were consulted think that legislation to cut emissions by 80% by 2050 is unrealistic, 97% of those interviewed said that they are more concerned with reducing costs than emissions. US News, April 2009 In response to discussions which took place at the Washington-based climate change meeting at the end of April, attended by ministers from the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, UN officials said that developing countries are doing far more to combat climate than the international community often gives them credit for. For example, almost forty percent of spending in China's economic stimulus package is earmarked for renewable energy, electric grid improvements, pollution control efforts and other clean energy projects. Terra Daily, March 2009 European enthusiasm for President Barack Obama's ambitious programme of US renewal does not hide deep uncertainty over the likelihood of his delivering on measures to combat climate change. Nine months from UN talks in Denmark, where world leaders will try to wrap up agreement on a new global climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012, there are real fears that events may conspire against Obama. Science News, March 2009 Research by the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo has found that The rapid growth of China’s export-driven economy earlier this decade fueled a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide emissions that overwhelmed the country’s substantial improvement in energy efficiency. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies The institute organised a policy forum on Asia's Post-2012 Climate Regime. The event, which took place in late 2008 in Tokyo, focused on eight themes in the Bali Action Plan including sectoral approaches, co-benefits, adaptation and REDD. The report details the outcomes of discussion around these areas.
The latest in climate change philanthropy MacArthur Foundation, February 2009 The Foundation has announced that it is providing $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union of Concerned Scientists to develop a new Economic and Livelihoods Adaptation Adaptation Network. The Network will serve as a resource for conservation groups, governments, international agencies, and others working to make vulnerable ecosystems more resilient and help human communities adapt sensibly to changing climates. Rockefeller Foundation, January 2009 The Foundation have awarded a grant to assist Asian cities to prepare for the potentially devastating effects of climate change in the coming years. The network represents a significant portion of the Foundation’s $70 million dollar global effort to create strategies to help people cope with climate change. Philanthropy News Digest, July 2008 Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the internet search giant, has announced the first grants made through its RechargeIT initiatives, which is designed to accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. Philanthropy News Digest, May 2008 As part of its $100 million climate change initiative, the Doris Duke Foundation has announced a grant of $1.5 million to the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PI). Working in close collaboration with the World Resources Institute, the PI will undertake a comprehensive analysis of the connections between international trade and climate change policies and make recommendations for how these policies can be mutually supportive.
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The Worldwatch Institute A Worldwatch Institute report on progress towards a sustainable society. Contributions from R. K. Pachauri, Betsy Taylor and Ken Caldeira, amongst others. N. Stern, 2008 Stern argues that market mechanisms should be used to encourage action on climate change. Economic instruments and discretionary policy should be used to provide incentives for behavioural change. J. Hansen et al, 2008 The authors state that the IPCC's recommendation that the earth's temperature should not increase by 2-3 degrees is too weak. The NASA team argue for a limit of 1 degree centigrade global warming to prevent irreversible catastrophic effects. C. Abbott, Oxford Research Group, April 2008 J. Pouliotte, N. Islam, B. Smit and S. Islam, Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, April 2006 D.G. Cogan; RiskMetrics Group, Ceres, January 2008
Green philanthropy research: J. Cracknell and H. Godwin for the Environmental Funders Network, May 2007 California Environmental Associates, August 2007 The study, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Oak Foundation, explores how philanthropic investment can turn the tide against global warming. |