Reports and Documents

Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world

This publication outlines good practices, providing practical case studies of successful disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects implemented by ACT members or their partners around the world. The guide includes 14 case studies, which describe local projects that range from renewable energy to controlling water in areas that have too little (or too much).

Greenpeace released a report

Himalayan Chief Ministers

DB Climate Change Advisors has collected information on approximately 270 climate change targets

This report prepared by DB Climate Change Advisors (Deutsche Bank Group) and Columbia Climate Center at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, provides investors with an analysis of climate change policies and assigns a risk rating to 109 countries, states and regions based on key government mandates and supporting policy frameworks.

Watch this first in a series of videos released by US Senator Barbara Boxer discussing the ongoing debate surrounding climate change legislation. In anticipation of the first Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, beginning October 27, Senator Boxer highlights the critical need for American leadership on climate change.

The special early excerpts of the World Energy Outlook 2009 released by IEA on 6th Oct 2009 at the climate meet in Bangkok. It finds that investment in polluting technologies has been deferred and CO2 emissions could fall in 2009 by as much as 3% - steeper than at any time in the last 40 years.

This report models the ability of low-carbon industries to grow and transform within a market economy. It finds that runaway climate change is almost inevitable without specific action to implement low-carbon re-industrialisation over the next five years. The point of no return is estimated to be 2014.

Achievable gains in energy efficiency, renewable energy, forest conservation, and sustainable land use worldwide could achieve up to 75 percent of needed global emissions reductions in 2020 at a net savings of $14 billion.