By Lewis Milford and Jessica Morey, Clean Energy Group. December 2009.
This one-page document explains the reasons to consider a new international climate innovation facility to meet the challenges of climate recovery.
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[Press Release] European Commission agreed on 23 January 2008 to a far-reaching package of proposals that will deliver the European Council’s commitments to fight climate change and promote renewable energy. These measures will dramatically increase the use of renewable energy in each country and set legally enforceable targets for governments to achieve them. All major CO2 emitters will be given an incentive to develop clean production technologies through a thorough reform of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) that will impose an EU-wide cap on emissions. The package seeks to deliver the European Union to reduce greenhouse gases by at least 20% and increases to 20% the share of renewable energies in the energy consumption by 2020, as agreed by EU leaders in March 2007. The emissions reduction will be increased to 30% by 2020 when a new global climate change agreement is reached.
The full proposal can be found by clicking here.
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Commission of the European Communities. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and teh Committee of the Regions. Brussels, 22 November 2007.
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Jonathan Lewis, Clean Air Task Force, October 2007.
In 2003 the EU issued a Directive promoting the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport. The Directive sought/seeks to have biofuels account for 2% of EU transport fuels by 2005, 5.75% by 2010, and in a 2007 addendum, 10% by 2020.
The EU mandate was primarily driven by farm policy, to create new outlets for agricultural and forestry products, and to diversify rural economies. Reduced emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), energy security, and improved environmental impacts were cited as ancillary benefits of the policies. However, due in part to global market forces and economic efficiencies in developing countries, the result is that the Directive has exacerbated some of the very problems it was designed to solve, driving up food prices, leading to increased deforestation in tropical countries, worsening global warming, and increasing imports of bio-oils.
This report from Clean Air Task Force examines these unintended consequences and highlights the need for updated, comprehensive tools to analyze the true net impacts of policies that increase biofuels use.
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Jeremy Lovell, Reuters. September 24, 2007. This analysis by Jeremy Lovell explains that carbon pricing will not achieve the carbon reductions necessary to make a global energy system carbon neutral by 2050, and he makes the case that strict technical standards and investment incentives will be needed to achieve that transition.
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. September 4, 2007. Lewis Milford will present this paper at the G8 Gleneagles Ministerial Meeting in Berlin, Germany in early September 2007.
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Clean Energy Group will participate in the European Commission High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment Sherpa SubGroup; Meeting of the Ad Hoc Group 11: International Action on Climate Change. Daniel Dutcher, CEG Project Director, will attend this meeting to submit CEG’s Written Contribution
See accompanying Clean Energy Group Statement to the Gleneagles Dialogue. Download the document (PDF)
Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. A discussion paper for the 2007 Tällberg Forum. August 2007.
Austrailian Buisness and Climate Group Report, August 2007.
Link to the ABCG web site to download the report, "Stepping Up: Accelerating the Deployment of Low Emission Technology in Austrailia."
Ken Berlin, Robert M. Sussman. Center for American Progress. "Global Warming and the Future of Coal: Carbon Capture and Storage. May 31, 2007. Link to the document web page on Center for American Progress web site.
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Vajjhala, Shalini, Jenny Gode and Asbjørn Torvanger, 2007. An International Regulatory Framework for Risk Governance of Carbon Capture and Storage. CICERO, 11pp. May 2007.
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Ken Berlin and Robert M. Sussman, Center for American Progress. May 2007.
Sussman and Berlin make a very good case for complementary technology in general, and their report specifically relates to the need for performance standards to implement CCS technololgy. The authors maintain that neither cap and trade nor coal taxes will suffice because the price of carbon emissions or coal will not go high enough to spur the new technology. A performance standard will need to be accompanied by incentives, say the authors, to keep energy prices affordable.
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Richard G. Newll, Resources for the Future. February 2007. This paper discusses available technology policies, options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of those policies, and new approaches to technology policy.
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Heleen de Coninck, Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell and Takahiro Ueno; Resources for the Future. January 2007. This paper explores how technology agreements can play an important role in climate mitigation strategies.
Link to the webpage of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change on the HM Treasury web site.
Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, delivers the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change. October 2006.
Link to the Chair’s Conclusions from the 2nd Ministerial meeting on the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Enegy, and Sustainable Development, October 3-4, 2006. Monterrey, Mexico. October 2006.
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Ambassador Richard E. Benedick
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Sydney, Australia. January 12, 2006.
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By Clean Energy Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation for the Montreal Strategic Climate Change Workshop on Sub-National Strategies for Clean Energy Investment, Technology Deployment and Innovation. December 2005.
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Commissioned by UNEP’s DTIE SEFI, conducted by BASE. December 2005. Contributing author: Allison Schumacher, CEG.