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May 10, 2014 By Madeline Clark Leave a Comment

Shifting the Cost of Desalination to Renewables: How the Private Sector is Getting Involved in the US and India

Filed Under: Demand Management, Efficiency, Energy Production, Energy Security, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, India, Renewable Energy, Renewable Fuels, Uncategorized

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant (CSP) opened earlier this year in California, and the United States is not alone in its quest to become a major supplier of solar power, and to shift the demand for power necessary to desalinate onto renewables. In California, where drought has reached an… read more 

April 30, 2014 By Stephen Farshing Leave a Comment

Brazil Moving Forward: Barriers and Recommendations to Land-Use Emissions Mitigation

Filed Under: Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD

  This will be the final post (concerning Brazil) to promote our recent report on Land-Use and Agricultural Emissions in Brazil and Indonesia. I encourage all to read through the report to gain a more detailed understanding of the current emissions situations in these two countries, current initiatives to reduce initiatives, and finally… read more 

April 29, 2014 By Stephen Farshing Leave a Comment

Are Brazil’s Deforestation Policies Enough?

Filed Under: Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD

      As deforestation alone is responsible for well over half of Brazil’s GHG emissions, it is a contentious sector at all levels of government, for businesses, NGOs, and civil society groups. To meet its stated emissions reductions goals by 2020, Brazil must simply stop cutting down forests, or at… read more 

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