Reports and Documents

Climate change is one of the key challenges of this century. Specifically, balancing climate change mitigation and increased energy needs in developing countries poses a serious dilemma that can only be reconciled with new and improved clean energy technologies.

This paper reviews the Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper on Air Pollution by Bjorn Larsen, Guy Hutton and Neha Khanna. The challenge paper addresses the impacts of air pollution in both indoor and outdoor environments; however, the perspective paper is limited to outdoor urban air pollution. In this challenge paper, section I provides an introduction and overview of air pollution.

This report begins with definitions of watersheds and watershed management, a characterization of the problem of watershed degradation, and a short history of watershed management operations and policies. It discusses the findings on watershed management approaches and methodologies. It looks at findings on institutions for watershed management and reviews the economics of watershed management.

This field note documents the evolution of three large, river-based schemes in Aliparamba Gram Panchayat near Kozhikode in the north of Kerala state, India. This success story is significant because the schemes are the first of their kind in Kerala to have been planned and implemented by the Gram Panchayat and User Groups, and to institute a management model that invests ownership and corporate oversight with a Scheme Level Committee representing participating User Groups, that is overseen by a

Traffic and Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India was conducted in 1994 to establish the urban transport scenario and forecast the anticipated issues that would most likely crop up in the future. Further to this, a National Urban Transport Policy was approved in 2006 to help in addressing the unprecedented increase in transport problems that the major cities in the country are facing.

The National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up in 1982 as an autonomous society under Ministry of Water Resources to give concrete shape to these proposals by carrying out the detailed studies, surveys and investigation work and to prepare feasibility reports of the links under the National Perspective Plan.

This report aims to illustrate progress made on meeting the target to "develop integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans by 2005, with support to developing countries, through actions at all levels' agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002, through the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPoI). The report is based on a survey covering 104 countries of which 77 are developing or countries in transition and 27 are developed (OECD and EU member states).

This report explains the failure of the world's biggest carbon offsets program to make a dent in greenhouse-gas emissions.

Although wind energy is a rapidly growing technology its use remains geographically concentrated, with more than 75 percent
of global installed capacity found in just five countries. These countries, and others wishing to develop wind energy have