Category: Initiatives
11/28/08
06:37:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Politics, Strategy, Initiatives, Technologies
It is questionable whether a recession is the right time to tax carbon..
The New Republic: Trading Up by Bradford Plumer, Nov. 2008
"If there's any upside to a recession (and it's hardly much consolation), it's that the accompanying decline in… more »
11/05/08
09:09:31 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 70 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Strategy, Initiatives
The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme (BEP) is the flagship program of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, which is aimed at helping leaders deepen their understanding of the social, environmental and economic con… more »
09/02/08
The Economist recommends a blog that only features items made with recycled material of some sort. It features hundreds of things you never knew you needed. Funny, creative and inspiring!
Great Green Goods more »
08/31/08
01:42:52 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 244 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Initiatives
click to go to interview with Sarah Palin
Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin believes that it would be ridiculous not to drill the oil reserves in Alaska, looking at the US' dependance on foreign oil.
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08/28/08
06:35:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 326 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Strategy, Initiatives, Research
Cool it is a book written by Bjorn Lomborg a sceptical observer of the environmental debate. Lomoborg points out that he is only interested in real problems and that he has no patience with media fear-mongering.
Some opponents to Lomborg believe that… more »
08/13/08
01:55:53 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 67 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Initiatives
Project Syndicate: Conservation With a Human Face by Jean-Michel Severino and Peter Seligmann, August 2008
"The World Bank estimates that natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth in low-income countries, compared to 3% in the highly deve… more »
08/06/08
06:54:22 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 197 words
Categories: Politics, Strategy, Initiatives, Technologies
FT Deutschland: Ein zweites Apollo-Programm, August 6, 2008
Ex US Vice President Al Gore recently required that US electricity production should become CO2 neutral within 10 years. This would cost an estimated US$ 5000 billion. A week earlier invest… more »
08/03/08
08:59:25 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 465 words
Categories: Politics, Initiatives, Technologies
The Wall Street Journal: Green Dragon: China’s Clean-Energy Revolution, by Keith Johnson, August 1, 2008
"Just because China is shuttering factories and shooing away cars in a last-ditch effort to clean up the air a week before the Summer Olympics b… more »
07/27/08
Princeton economics professor A.S.Blinder came up with a creative idea potentially providing both economic stimulus and environmental improvement: "Cash for Clunkers" is his proposition. Cash for Clunkers is a generic name for a variety of programs under… more »
07/12/08
11:30:34 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 161 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Initiatives, Research
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Cha… more »
07/02/08
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Impact Evaluation for Microfinance, The World Bank, November, 2007 more »
06/22/08
04:49:22 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 11 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Initiatives, Research, Technologies
Source: HaraBara: How much will you have to cut your emissions? more »
06/18/08
10:46:18 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 354 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Initiatives, Research
The Economics of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Terry Barker, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, June 2008
Abstract from paper:
"The problem of avoiding dangerous climate change requires analysis from many disciplines.
Mainstream econ… more »
06/08/08
08:35:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 242 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Strategy, Initiatives, Technologies
Changing Configuration of Alternative Energy Systems, Radhika Bhuyan and Lynn Mytelka, United Nations University, 2008
Key findings:
The alternative energy market has been changing, to include more and more firms, the types of firms have cha… more »
05/20/08
06:46:45 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 64 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Strategy, Initiatives, Technologies
Knowledge Wharton: Cleaning up Its Act: How China Can Convert to More Environmentally Friendly Energy, May 2008: "If China doesn't take steps to prevent it, a big black cloud may soon engulf its economic boom. The country is growing at a torrid rate, but… more »
05/17/08
Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth, Karn Fisher-Vanden, Dartmouth College, Karin S. Thorburn, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Centre for Economic Policy Resear… more »
05/03/08
08:23:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 241 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Initiatives, Research
Rainforest cleard for maize (Puerto Maldanado)
Das Magazin, Wie man in den Wald ruft, 3. Mai, 2008: ... so tönt es nicht immer zurück. Ein Gespräch mit dem grossen Forscher Josef H. Reichholf über die Natur und den Menschen in Zeiten der Klimahysterie… more »
05/01/08
07:48:14 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 247 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Initiatives, Research
Guardian: Growth factors by Robert Watson April 30, 2008
"Climate change is already impacting on, and is likely to increase, invasive species, pests and disease vectors that all adversely affect agricultural productivity. Advances in agricultural know… more »
04/20/08
Project Syndicate: Lights Out? by Bjørn Lomborg, April 2008: "When it comes to all things “green, ” common sense seems to have been abandoned. Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so seri… more »
04/13/08
08:14:58 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 107 words
Categories: Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Initiatives
"Gordon Brown has written to the Japanese PM to asking him as chair of the G8 group of industrialised nations to take action to deal with rising food prices. The letter was also sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the IMF… more »
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VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS:
- American Agric. Economics Association
- Berkeley Institute of the EnvironmentLeading environment research center of UC Berkeley
- Ecological EconomicsBlog by Dave Iverson; highly academic; giving an “ecological” perspective on the current environmental debate
- EcoTrekkerTop 50 Alternative Energy Blogs
- Environmental and Urban Economics:Blog of UCLA professor Matthew E. Kahn; posts are a mix of environmental and urban economics. Matt also gives some excellent insights into academic life and a top quality publication record to match
- Daily Reckoning (Commodities Section)
- Environmental CapitalDaily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal
- Environmental EconomicsEconomists Tim Haab and John Whitehead on Environmental and Natural Resources: News, Opinion, and Analysis
- Harvard Environmental Economics ProgramA University wide research initiative
- International Trade Statistics by Product (UNCTAD)
- MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
- Oxford Business Group
- PERCthe US's oldest and largest institute dedicated to original research that brings market principles to resolving environmental problems
- Planet Ark (Reuters)daily environmental news
- United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
- United Nations environmental Publications
- US Geological Service - Minerals Information
- US Senate on Natural Resources
- Whiskey and Gunpower
- WTO
- Sierra Club
COMMODITY DATA:
- CNN Money (Commodities)
- Reuters Commodity Prices
- World Bank Commodity Price Data
- The World Gold Council
ENVIRONMENT AND INDUSTRY:
- Eco Business Links
- Business in the Environment
- Earth Trends
- Energy Information Administration (Official US enviromental Statistics)
- Environmental Code of Conducts
- Global Environmental Management Initiative
- Environmental Protection Agency
- GRIST.ORG
- International Corporate Sustainability Reporting
- The European Pollutant Emission Register (Information on approx. 9'200 industrial Sites)
- MasterResource: a free-market energy blog
- World Business Council for sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- World.org: 100 top environmental sites
- Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS:
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
COMPANY'S SUSTAINA- BILITY REPORTING:
- British Petroleum: Environment and Society
- British Telecom: Society and Environment
- NEC: Annual environmental Report 2006
- Novo Nordisk: Sustainability
- Shell: Environment and Society
- Unilever: Sustainability Development Report
- Global Reporters 2006: Ranking of non-financial Reporting
_________________________________________________________________________________ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS:
WORKING PAPERS:
- SSRN: Biggest Collection of Working Papers (Environmental Economics)
- Globalization of sustainable Development?: Principles and Practices in transnational Corporations (Dennis A. Rondinelli)
