Reports and Documents

The Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change was endorsed by the Development Committee on October 12, 2008, providing a roadmap for the World Bank Group

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This document is intended to facilitate further discussions on the proposed intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services and its potential role in producing or contributing to assessments for biodiversity and ecosystem services.

This report analyses options for scaling up existing estimates of ecosystem service values to larger geographical scales. It also presents a case study of wetlands at the European level and discusses the results and policy applications.

This report provides a cross-country assessment of poverty and socio-economic indicators for indigenous peoples. It is motivated by a recent study of indigenous peoples in Latin America, which finds high poverty rates among these groups, and little to no improvement in poverty rates over time, and a continued interest in indigenous peoples socioeconomic status worldwide.

This policy paper shows how the current deadlock in international climate policy can be broken. A resolute course must be set in the international climate process within the next few years in order to keep the global mean temperature rise below 2

Over the past two years two major issues have become a critical focus for the international community, climate change and the global economic crisis. The Brookings Blum Roundtable tries to address these issues by working to restore sustainable and balanced global economic growth and reduce the risks of climate change.

This paper explore three key issues that relate to the management of Antarctica in the context of climate change: climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation, in terms of the management strategies that could limit the vulnerability of Antarctica

This study evaluates potentially viable strategies to reduce transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study was mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act. The Act directed the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in coordination with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and consultation with the U.S.

The social cost of carbon (SCC), defined as the estimated price of the damages caused by each additional ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere, is the volume dial on government regulations affecting greenhouse gases: The higher the SCC is set, the more stringent the regulatory standards.