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…
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Shifting the Cost of Desalination to Renewables: How the Private Sector is Getting Involved in the US and India
Madeline Clark
Posted in Demand Management, Efficiency, Energy Production, Energy Security, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, India, Renewable Energy, Renewable Fuels, Uncategorized
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Brazil Moving Forward: Barriers and Recommendations to Land-Use Emissions Mitigation
Stephen Farshing
Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD
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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…
Are Brazil’s Deforestation Policies Enough?
Stephen Farshing
Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Financial Incentives, Foreign Investment, Forestry, LULUCF, REDD
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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…
What does the Indian General Election mean for Climate Change?
Bilal Bawany
Posted in Energy Exports, Energy Production, Foreign Investment, India, Uncategorized
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As more than 850 million Indians look to elect a new government this year, it is not clear if “election issue” for any of the major political parties. None of the parties have actively campaigned using the climate change or environmental sustainability…
Whose forest is it anyway? – Political Barriers to Reducing Emissions from Forests
Bilal Bawany
Posted in Agriculture, Foreign Investment, Forestry, Indonesia, LULUCF, Planning, REDD, Uncategorized
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Continuing from my previous blog post which discussed the technical barriers developing countries face in reducing forestry relation emissions, this blog post will looks at how domestic politics can hamper the adoption of mitigation strategies. Measuring forests, converting forest land…
Hydraulic Fracturing and the Energy Future of Europe
Joshua Bartlett
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Coal, Energy Exports, Energy Production, European Union, Foreign Investment, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy
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The issue of hydraulic fracturing is revealing deep divisions in the European Union. While many of the rich nations of Western Europe have all shunned the practice, the poorer countries of Eastern Europe are in favor of it. The debate…
After Fukushima: Japan’s Climate and Energy Policy Under Review
Ramzey Zbeida
Posted in CDM, Foreign Investment, Japan, JCM, Nuclear Energy, REDD, Renewable Energy, Utilities
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The 2011 nuclear accident that occurred at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor sent shockwaves through the nuclear power industry. The resulting lack of trust in the safety of nuclear power is causing countries around the world to reconsider their use of…
Making REDD+ more attractive for the Private Sector
The private sector is often cast as a necessary but dangerous antagonist in the REDD+ world, and there are good reasons for this. From carbon cowboys to imaginary baselines, there is plenty of evidence that when money can grow on…
World energy and climate implications from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta
Stephen Farshing
Posted in Argentina, Energy Production, Foreign Investment, Natural Gas
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The time is ripe to tap Argentina’s vast, world-class shale resources as American, European, and Chinese oil exploration companies flock to the Vaca Muerta formation, found in the Neuquen Basin. Discovered in 2010 by the Spanish-Argentine joint venture, Repsol-YPF, the…
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