Carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, involves the capture of CO2 from power plants and other large industrial sources, its transportation to suitable locations, and injection into deep undergroun
This working paper
summarizes key
innovations and challenges
associated with the Clean
Technology Fund. It
analyzes the first set of
clean technology
investment plans from
Egypt, Mexico, and Turkey,
and makes the case for
greater emphasis on
institutional capacity and
governance in measuring
program results.
This study uses a national agro-environmental production
model to evaluate the environmental and economic impacts
of introducing a market for corn stover to support a stover-based
ethanol industry.
This publication is a transcript of Jonathan Lash’s annual Environmental Stories to Watch address, which he gave on December 17th, 2008 at the Newseum. For the past six years, WRI has
invited members of the press to join in a conversation
about what we think will be the environmental stories to watch in the
coming year.
This paper focuses on what should be included in a new financial
agreement under the UNFCCC; more specifically it proposes
five specific components of a “new deal” to address technology
barriers in developing countries. The paper reflects on ideas on
technology and finance as put forth by countries in submissions
to the UNFCCC secretariat as summarized in UNFCCC 2008.
These submissions are summarized in a complementary WRI
discussion paper titled From Position to Agreement: Technology
and Finance at the UNFCCC (WRI 2008). We have also considered
two UNFCCC documents that synthesize information
on technology needs and financial barriers faced by non Annex
1 Parties to the Convention.
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
In South Africa more than half the traffic on Vodacom’s mobile network in 2004 came not from its 8 million subscribers but from 4,400 entrepreneur-owned phone shops where customers rent access to ph
