Topic: UNFCCC

Representatives from around the world are gathering in Durban, South Africa to find common ground in the fight against extreme climate change.

STATEMENT: Australia Passes Historic Climate Legislation

On Tuesday, the Australian senate passed legislation that will set a price on carbon and help meet its emissions targets.

This working paper seeks to identify concrete pathways for building an international “climate change regime.” It surveys and analyzes the academic literature as well as proposals by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments.

Paper offers options to scale up climate action globally in Durban, Rio and beyond

MEDIA ADVISORY: Building the Climate Change Regime

Launch of New Paper Building the Climate Change Regime: Survey and Analysis of Approaches

This series of policy briefs provides a review of some of the major climate change science research and innovations in recent years.

[sidebar]

A New And Improved Map

This restoration opportunity map is a revised and improved version of a previous map (published in 2009 and [flink world_of_opportunity_b

An informal summary of WRI’s June 2011 workshop on the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of finance provisions in the Cancun Agreements.

As climate negotiations wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, following is a statement from Jennifer Morgan, Director, Climate and Energy, the World Resources Institute:

Last year, in an effort to make our climate data more accessible, WRI launched a pilot that paired estimates of U.S. state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) with the Google Public Data Explorer, a tool that visualizes large data sets with interactive charts and maps.

Forty-one developing countries have submitted mitigation actions under the UNFCCC in line with the 2010 Cancun agreements. This paper examines the subset of developing country actions that are framed in greenhouse gas (GHG) terms.

Ensuring that the opportunities of clean energy are available to the nations that need them most by guiding effective international collaboration on low-carbon technology.

There is still time to learn lessons, foster cooperation, and move this session from paralysis to progress.

More progress on substantive issues is needed to keep the climate talks headed in the right direction.

As the reporting deadline for 2010 looms, developed countries will need to prove that they are honestly meeting their modest $30 billion commitment.