Press Releases
Global Witness is Winner of the 2007 Commitment to Development Award
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 10,2007)- Global Witness, a small U.K.-based NGO that has crusaded to stop the plunder of rain forests in Cambodia and Burma and helped to bring the problem of conflict diamonds in Africa to the world's attention, is the winner of the 2007 Commitment to Development "Ideas in Action" Award, sponsored jointly by CGD and Foreign Policy magazine. The award will be presented in January.
Carbon-Intensive South Faces Climate Crisis, Even Without Greenhouse Gas from the North
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 3,2007)-Rising carbon emissions from developing countries would threaten severe climate change within a single generation, even if the rich countries were to stop all of their greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, according to new CGD research. The new paper by CGD senior fellow David Wheeler and co-author Kevin Ummel, titled "Another Inconvenient Truth," challenges the conventional wisdom and has important implications for the United Nations' climate change conference getting underway in Bali this week. CGD president Nancy Birdsall says that the paper must not be taken as an excuse for inaction in the high-income countries: "To avoid a shared global disaster, we in the rich countries need to cut our own emissions quickly and do much more to help developing countries shift to a low-carbon future while at the same time meeting the just aspirations of their people for a better life."
CGD Ranks CO2 Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide [Press Release]
WASHINGTON,D.C.(November 11,2007)- Now for the first time, the CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide, the globe’s most concentrated source of greenhouse gases, have been compiled into a massive new database, called CARMA--Carbon Monitoring for Action.
Commitment to Development Index: U.S. Ranks Last on Environment [Press Release]
WASHINGTON,D.C.(December 10, 2007) The United States ranks last of 21 rich countries on the environment component of the 2007 Commitment to Development Index (CDI). Norway ranks first on the environment component, followed by Ireland, Finland, and the United Kingdom. Spain had the second worst ranking on the environment policy component, followed by Australia and Canada.
CGD Founder Ed Scott Donates $1 Million for Liberian Fellowships [Press Release]
WASHINGTON,D.C.(February 12,2007)-The government of Liberia and the Center for Global Development (CGD) announced today a new program to assist Liberia in managing its reconstruction. Each year for three years, the program will place five to six highly trained specialists in key Liberian ministries to support senior officials and their staff in advancing the rebuilding of the war-torn country.