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INTEGRATING DEVELOPMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE. By the South Centre, November 2007. This publication is intended to provide readers, especially developing country policymakers and negotiators on development and climate change issues, with a policy paper that provides an integrated development-oriented approach to climate change issues with recommendations on the mandate and principles that should be reflected in any post-2012 global policy regime on climate change. Internet: http://www.southcentre.org/publications/AnalyticalNotes/GlobalSocialEnvGov/2007Nov_Integrating_Development_and_Climate_Change.pdf
WTO AND THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM. By Martin Khor et al., Third World Network. Zed Books, 2007. The book offers a wide-ranging overview of the current world trading system. It puts forward proposals for improving every major aspect of it and the WTO Agreements that enshrine its rules. Demanding that the developed countries live up to their own trade commitments, the work outlines the overall principles informing a world trade system that genuinely fosters human development throughout the world. Internet: http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3809
TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS-STRATEGIC OUTLOOK. World Growth, November 2007. This strategic review outlines the considerable scope that exists to accelerate the rate of technological progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The review of outlook and prospects encompass the technologies involved in increasing energy efficiency, capturing and storing emissions, reducing the carbon-intensity of the energy mix, and reducing emissions from productive processes other than energy consumption. The study also explores the wide range of voluntary initiatives by both government and the private sector. These initiatives are directed at the development and commercialization of technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions world-wide. Internet: http://www.worldgrowth.org/assets/File/WG-GreenhouseGasEmissions.pdf
AN EXAMINATION OF US AND EU GOVERNMENT SUPPORT TO BIOFUELS: EARLY LESSONS. International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council, October 2007. This study finds that in the absence of commercially viable second-generation biofuels, ambitious mandates coupled with high tariffs that serve to largely limit tax incentives to domestic producers, risk a disproportionate focus on U.S. and EU first-generation biofuels. The report also demonstrates that a lack of internationally agreed technical and sustainability standards as well as a lack of clarity about international trade obligations, can increase this tendency. The report urges the U.S. and EU to adopt policies that serve to promote those uses of biomass which are most energy efficient and show the greatest promise of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of national origin. Internet: http://www.agritrade.org/Publications/EU_US_Biofuels.html
BUILDING A PRO-DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL STRATEGY ON CLIMATE CHANGE. By Alan Oxley, World Growth, August 2007. The study proposes a "Multi-Track" process that would allow countries to develop more customised strategies to reduce emissions while preserving economic development programs and progress toward eliminating poverty. The "Multi-Track" strategy would allow for each nation to develop a strategy to tackle climate change that best suits it, giving nations more flexibility to reach emission reductions through a variety of strategies. This could include Kyoto-styled mandatory cuts, adopting new technologies, improving efficient energy consumption, or any combination of approaches. Internet: http://www.worldgrowth.org/assets/File/World_Growth_-_Building_a_Pro-Development_Global_Strategy_on_Climate_Change.pdf