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India Goes Green | Defense Eats Development | CGD's New Clothes

Mar 9, 2010

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India's Proposed Clean Energy Stance

After rejecting emissions caps, India seems poised to curb greenhouse gases on its own. Senior fellow David Wheeler calculates that a proposed new renewable energy standard would cause a massive shift of new power capacity within a decade.

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DynCorp Move Merges Defense and Development

U.S. defense contractor DynCorp recently bought development contractor Casals & Associates, further blurring an increasingly fuzzy line between defense and development. CGD senior fellow Vijaya Ramachandran asks: should we worry?

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Look, Ma, New Clothes!

Devoted readers may have noticed last week that the Center for Global Development launched a revamped website that includes improved navigation and a greatly enhanced search function. Check it out!

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David Wheeler leads CGD's work on climate change, which includes assessing the stakes for developing countries, integrating climate change into development assistance, and using public information disclosure to reduce emissions. He is the architect two Web-based carbon monitoring databases, one for all power plants in the world and one for tropical forests.