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502. Navigating Climate Change: An Agenda for U.S.-Chinese Cooperation
- Author:
- Jacqueline McLaren Miller and Piin-Fen Kok
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- EastWest Institute
- Abstract:
- Between June 2009 and January 2010, the East West Institute (EWI) began exploring how the United States, China, and the international community could build strategic trust through cooperation on climate change and climate security. EWI examined this issue through policy discussions in several forums: Track 2 processes such as the U.S.-China High Level Security Dialogue and the U.S.-China-Europe Trialogue21 initiative; a roundtable session in New York; and the U.S.-China Working Group on Climate Change—a group of Chinese and American experts convened with the support of the Connect U.S. Fund who met before and after Copenhagen to assess progress and to determine ways to move forward.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Environment, International Cooperation, and Bilateral Relations
- Political Geography:
- United States, China, New York, and Europe
503. Preparing for a low carbon future in the maritime sector
- Author:
- Nazery Khalid
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Maritime Institute of Malaysia
- Abstract:
- The need to address the issue of climate change has become a matter of priority, and players in the shipping industry must stand up and be counted to play their part to reduce carbon emissions. Being a crucial facilitator of trade and at the forefront of activities such as offshore oil and gas exploration and production, expectation is high for the shipping industry to take urgent, meaningful action to adopt green practices.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Energy Policy, Environment, and Maritime Commerce
- Political Geography:
- Southeast Asia
504. Seas under siege
- Author:
- Nazery Khalid
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Maritime Institute of Malaysia
- Abstract:
- The oceans provide sustenance, resources and employment to many people. They also act as a conduit to migration of people and movement of goods that have shaped human civilization and facilitate global trade and economic growth. In addition to these pivotal roles, the seas also act as a regulator of the world's weather pattern. The importance of oceans that give the earth the moniker 'the Blue Planet' to civilization cannot be overemphasized.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Environment, International Trade and Finance, and Maritime Commerce
- Political Geography:
- Malaysia
505. Meeting bigger challenges in deeper waters
- Author:
- Nazery Khalid
- Publication Date:
- 04-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Maritime Institute of Malaysia
- Abstract:
- As the pursuit of hydrocarbon energy expands to new territories to meet growing global demand, the pressure for oil and gas majors to find new sources of these two coveted commodities will increase. Offshore locations, especially deepwater sites, have yielded prolific deposits, and are poised to be a hive of activities in the oil and gas industry. Operations farther and deeper in offshore sites will bring a variety of issues and challenges that will test the resolve and stretch the resourcefulness of industry players.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Energy Policy, Environment, and Maritime Commerce
506. Assessing the American Power Act: The Economic, Employment, Energy Security, and Environmental Impact of Senator Kerry and Senator Lieberman's Discussion Draft
- Author:
- Trevor Houser
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Abstract:
- On May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) released details of their proposed American Power Act, a comprehensive energy and climate change bill developed over the preceding nine months by the two senators, chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committees respectively, along with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).1 With US unemployment just below 10 percent and the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig's ruptured well pouring thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico each day, the senators promised that if passed the bill will: (1) reduce US oil consumption and dependence on oil imports; (2) cut US carbon pollution 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and over 80 percent by 2050; and (3) create jobs and restore US global economic leadership. In this policy brief we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed American Power Act in achieving those goals.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Environment, and Government
- Political Geography:
- United States
507. Tools for building EU climate concensus: Bringing the CEE Member States on board
- Author:
- Anna Korppoo and Thomas Spencer
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Despite the lack of a global agreement in Copenhagen, momentum remains for the further development of EU climate policy, as indeed it does in many other countries. A 2010 Deutsche Bank report surveying the development of climate policies worldwide concluded that "…'the race is on' for countries to achieve a green economy". A wide range of EU initiatives on energy and climate are expected this year, providing opportunities to enhance the coherence and impact of EU policy.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Energy Policy, Environment, and Regional Cooperation
- Political Geography:
- Europe
508. The Formation of Preferences in Two-level Games: An Analysis of India's Domestic and Foreign Energy Policy
- Author:
- Joachim Betz and Melanie Hanif
- Publication Date:
- 07-2010
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- Abstract:
- This paper examines the formation of India's energy‐policy strategy as an act of doubleedged diplomacy. After developing an analytical framework based on the two‐level game approach to international relations (IR), it focuses on the domestic context of policy preference formation. India's energy strategy is shaped by a shortage of energy and the scarcity of indigenous reserves; these problems have together resulted in agrowing import dependence in order to sustain economic growth rates, outdated cross‐subsidies, overregulation, and nontransparent bureaucratic structures which are adverse to private investment. The Indian government still dominates the energy sector, but large electoral constituencies within the country exert a considerable indirect influence. The paper analyzes how all these domestic necessities combine with India's general foreign policy goals and traditions to form an overall energy strategy. We finally discuss how this strategy plays out in a competitive international environment where global resources are shrinking (with most claims already distributed) and environmental concerns are on the rise.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, Energy Policy, Environment, and Natural Resources
- Political Geography:
- India
509. Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
- Author:
- Joel E. Cohen
- Publication Date:
- 07-2010
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- This essay reviews some of the most important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies to respond these trends and implications. The interactions of population, economics, the environment, and culture are central. In the past decade, for the first time in history, old people outnumbered young people, urban people outnumbered rural people, and women of reduced fertility outnumbered women of high fertility. The century from 1950 to 2050 will have included the highest global population growth rate ever, the largest voluntary fall in the global population growth rate ever, and the most enormous shift ever in the demographic balance between the more developed regions of the world and the less developed ones. In the coming half century, according to most demographers, the world's population will grow older, larger (albeit more slowly), and more urban than in the 20th century, but with much variance within and across regions. No one knows what numbers and demographic characteristics of humans are sustainable, but it is clear that the prodigious stain of a billion or so chronically hungry people at present results from recent and ongoing collective human choices, not biophysical necessities. Concrete policy options to respond to demographic trends include providing universal primary and secondary education, particularly education for global and household civility; eliminating unmet needs for contraception and reproductive health; and implementing demographically sensitive urban planning, particularly construction for greater energy efficiency and friendliness to older people.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Development, Economics, and Environment
- Political Geography:
- Washington
510. Climate Finance Post-Copenhagen: The $100bn questions
- Publication Date:
- 05-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract:
- Climate change is the single greatest threat to development – making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive. Finance is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing climate. Last year the World Bank estimated the costs of adaptation in poor countries were $75–100bn per year if global warming was kept to 2°C. The non-binding pledges from rich countries to cut emissions offered since Copenhagen would steer a course towards a catastrophic 4°C.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Environment, and Treaties and Agreements
- Political Geography:
- United Nations