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Featured Maps & Data
Shale Resources and Water Risks
mapThis interactive atlas explores water availability across shale gas and tight oil resources.
Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change
videoSecuring community land rights help maintain healthier forests and lower CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
There is an international dimension of capital flows to lowcarbon technologies.
The discussion around investing in low-carbon technologies often centers on investment in technology development.
The Pacala and Socolow wedges vision focused on what can be done to help the climate by reducing emissions below BAU. However, the range of policy and technology choices available tha
A 2004 paper by two Princeton researchers, Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, demonstrated graphi
The availability of relevant, accurate and objective data is essential for sound and transparent decision making and policy development.
Coral reefs and mangroves in Belize.
Belize: Shoreline Protection from Coral Reefs
The Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the Western Hemisphere, shelters most of the windward coast of Belize.
Credit: EarthTrends, 2006 using data from FAO, 2006
The composition of BOP markets differs markedly across countries. Some, like those in the Ukraine, are concentrated in the upper income segments of the BOP.
