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| Title | Quote from executive summary | Number of pages |
Bali
report by e3g |
So what actually happened in Bali? Why was the USA booed by delegates? What was the nature of the last-minute agreement? And where does the international process go next? E3G was represented in Bali by Jennifer Morgan, who has written a briefing paper which analyses the main decisions of Bali and outlines the overarching politics of the meeting. It aims to serve as a guide to the wide range of decisions which were taken in a sometimes confusing political context. |
17 pages |
 | "Climate policy is characterised by the habituation of low expectations and a culture of failure. There is an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we have already crossed as a sustainability emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise. We are now in a race between climate tipping points and political tipping points" | |
 | The Chatham House Report - Changing Climates: Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe is now available for download in English and Chinese. The European Union (EU) and China face many common challenges on energy and climate security in the next quarter century. These range from dealing with the challenges of global climate change, securing stable supply of energy resources to advance national economic development as well as generating innovative market solutions to foster the potential of emerging technologies in meeting climate and energy security needs. In order to meet these challenges, it may be useful to harness the combined market power of the EU, the world's largest single market, and China, the world's fastest growing economy, to help drive progress towards sustainable development, including a transition towards a sustainable energy and a low carbon future. | 101 pages |
 | Climate change is now recognised as one of the most serious long-term challenges facing the investment community. While considerable efort has rightly been placed on understanding the implications of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, less attention has been given to the investment consequences of the now unavoidable impacts of physical climate change. To help ill this analytical gap, four institutional investors – Henderson Global Investors, Insight Investment, RAILPEN Investments and the Universities Superannuation Scheme – have initiated a collaborative research project to identify how companies and their investors are likely to be afected by the physical impacts of climate change. | 13 pages |
Taking the Temperature  |
"In 2007, we initiated a project to assess how companies are managing their greenhouse gas emissions (as a subset of their broader approach to managing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change). Our objectives were to develop a systematic understanding of the wider implications of climate change for our investments and to identify companies whose management of the risks and opportunities presented by climate change falls short of good practice. " |
47 pages |
Royal
Society report on the sustainability of biofuels |
90 pages | |
Royal Society report on biodiversity | Biodiversity-climate interactions: adaptation, mitigation and human livelihoods Report of an international meeting June 2007 Climate, biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked. Significant political commitments and policy objectives for each now exist at national and international levels. Our understanding of these issues, the relevant processes and their inter-relationships is far from complete. However, we know enough to identify some critically important matters for immediate attention and priority areas for research and policy development. New mechanisms are needed to galvanise work in this area, especially at the inter-governmental level. | 60 pages |