Climate Change

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WORKING PAPERS
Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation - Working Paper 384
Martin Persson et al.
October 22, 2014
This paper aims to improve our understanding of how and where global supply-chains link consumers of agricultural and forest commodities across the world to forest destruction in tropical countries. A better understanding of these linkages can help inform and support the design of demand-side int...
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The Global Trade in Deforestation and Associated Emissions
Frances Seymour
October 22, 2014
Last month, I celebrated commitments to slow deforestation by Peru and Liberia announced at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in New York.  
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Who Pollutes Most? Surprises in a New US Database - Kevin Ummel
Lawrence MacDonald
October 21, 2014
Pollution has no respect for party lines. In the US, Republican and Democratic districts may differ in many ways, but when it comes to the carbon emissions heating our planet, the differences are much smaller than you might expect. 
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Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole’s Five-Step Plan to Fix the Climate
Jonah Busch
October 17, 2014
On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, aka the Nobel Prize for Economics, to Professor Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics.
WORKING PAPERS
Who Pollutes? A Household-Level Database of America’s Greenhouse Gas Footprint - Working Paper 381
Kevin Ummel
October 10, 2014
This paper describes the creation of a database providing estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints for 6 million U.S. households over the period 2008-2012.
WORKING PAPERS
Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Science - Working Paper 380
Katrina Brandon
October 07, 2014
Tropical forests exert a more profound influence on weather patterns, freshwater, natural disasters, biodiversity, food, and human health – both in the countries where forests are found and in distant countries – than any other terrestrial biome.
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Why Quantifying the Value of Tropical Forests Matters for Development
Jonah Busch
October 01, 2014
More electricity. Fewer cases of diarrhea. Fewer lives lost to deadly storms.  These are among the objectives of the development planners and financiers meeting next week in Washington at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings.