Reports and Documents

Counting the Gigatonnes: Building Trust in Greenhouse Gas Inventories from the United States and China, outlines the systems already in place in both countries that can ensure accurate and timely data on greenhouse gas emissions.

This brief lays out the business case for national climate and energy policy, and explains why leading companies have decided that legislation that limits GHG emissions is good for their industries.

What are the best approaches for Southeast Asian countries to exploit their large renewable energy potentials?

Adaptation to climate impacts on groundwater resources
in developed and developing countries has not received adequate attention. This reflects the often poorly understood impacts of climate change, the hidden nature of groundwater and the general neglect of groundwater management. Many developing countries are highly reliant on groundwater. Given expectations of reduced

This paper assesses the state of the adaptation negotiations under the UNFCCC after the historic climate summit of Copenhagen. It compares the current draft negotiating text (June 2010) and compares it to key essentials that an ambitious adaptation action framework needs to contain to assist developing countries living up to the challenge of adaptation.

Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences Earth

This fourth annual

An all-India survey on the situation of employment and unemployment and migration particulars in India was carried out during NSS 64th round (July, 2007 to June, 2008). The

This report highlights a number of successes, while also assessing the human impact of lack of adequate progress on many of the millennium development goals. Shows that the goals are achievable when nationally owned development strategies and policies are supported by international development partners.

This report examines a range of business models that can be used to structure agricultural investments in lower- and middle-income countries, and that provide an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions (plantations that are wholly owned by, or on long leases to, investors without inclusion of smallholders or small enterprises in the value chain).