Stories: Climate, Energy & Transport

Tuberculosis infection rates stabilize, World Water Day 2007, the rising demand for good governance, rural electricity startups in India, new microfinance research, and more articles in the Next 4 Billion series.

The first article in a weekly series that profiles innovative businesses in rapidly developing countries that are turning the greatest environmental challenges into market opportunities.

How does climate change affect the corporate competitive landscape? This article by WRI’s Jonathan Lash and Fred Wellington in the Harvard Business Review discusses the risks and opportunities.

A new WRI/IFC Report shows for the first time how big the opportunity is to reduce proverty through private sector strategies. And it’s a bigger market than previously thought.

Two major global warming gases, methane and nitrous oxide, are emitted in large quantities by the U.S. agriculture industry (70% and 30% of total U.S. emissions, respectively). Conservation programs in the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill offer opportunities to decrease these emissions, as well as broadly address climate change. The technologies to mitigate GHG emissions exist, and farmers could stand to benefit from their implementation.

WRI’s Liz Marshall on corn ethanol as an alternative to gasoline and live performances from Bonnaroo 2006 by the Disco Biscuits.

The “missing middle” in development.

China’s energy appetite is voracious and growing. It’s a bleak picture for emissions, but the international community can help.

The 2007 Farm Bill could play a pivotal role in efforts to combat global warming. Here are four components that policymakers should consider.

EarthTrends’ February Monthly Update