Global Initiatives
| Biofuels research in the CGIAR - A perspective from the Science Council Government policies, motivated by concerns about energy security, high oil prices, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and various vested interests, are driving the latest expansion in the global biofuels industry. This is most... |
May 2008 |
| Accelerating clean energy technology research, development, and deployment - Lessons from non-energy sectors Climate change is receiving considerable and increasing attention worldwide as one of the key challenges for the century ahead. In 2007 several reports have been published that confirm and strengthen the evidence that climate... |
May 2008 |
| Biofuels and sustainable development Guiding biofuel development to realize its multiple potential benefits while guarding against its multiple risks requires the application of a similarly diverse set of tailored policy interventions, together with integrated... |
2008 |
| Review of international assessments for the Canadian International Initiative on Agri-environmental Issues This IISD report is an interpretive analysis of the findings of the three aforementioned assessments. It summarizes the results of each assessment (in the Annex) using agriculture as its reviewing lens and identifies and analyzes... |
Apr 2008 |
| Global monitoring report 2008: MDGs and the environment – Agenda for inclusive and sustainable development This joint report prepared by the World Bank and IMF contains two main parts: monitoring the MDGs and a special focus on climate change.The upward pressure on food prices reflects the increasing use of corn and other food items... |
Apr 2008 |
| Climate change, forest conservation and indigenous people’s rights According to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), eighty per cent of the world’s biodiversity is found in rainforests. Most of these rainforests are the traditional land and territories of Indigenous Peoples, which... |
Apr 2008 |
| Opportunities and challenges of biofuel production for food security and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean As an agency dedicated to the generation, analysis and dissemination of knowledge and in response to the Kyoto Protocol, the Johannesburg Declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and the Millennium... |
Apr 2008 |
| Private sector stakeholder consultation and dialogue on world food security and the challenges of climate change and bioenergy in preparation of the High-Level Conference on Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy - Proceedings Responding to the call by the UN-Secretary General in 2007 for a joint response by the UN system and its agencies to contribute to the combat against climate change and conscious that such change will drastically impact the... |
Mar 2008 |
| A sustainable biofuels consensus In the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, a group of women and men, based in 12 different countries and heavily involved, from different perspectives, with biofuels met during 24-28 March 2008.... |
Mar 2008 |
| Adaptation to climate change – Where do we go from Bali? - An analysis of the COP13 and the key issues on the road to a new climate change treaty Adaptation to climate change featured very prominently during the Bali UN climate conference in December 2007. Given the accelerating threats of climate change in particular for developing countries, immediately increased... |
Mar 2008 |
