Environment
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From climate change, to sustainable development, to natural disasters like the 2004 tsunami, environmental factors have a significant impact on the fortunes of rich and poor countries alike. CGD research looks at the economic, political, and security implications of these environmental factors, and offers pragmatic policy solutions to meet these challenges. Senior fellow David Wheeler leads CGD's initiaitive, Confronting Climate Change, which builds on CGD senior fellow William Cline's forthcoming study of the agricultural impact of climate change through 2080. Research fellow Stewart Patrick is examining the security implications of environmental degradation as part of his work on security, weak states, and transnational threats. PublicationsCalculating CARMA: Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector - Working Paper 145
Recent Commentary |
In November 2007 CGD’s Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) provided the first global database on CO2 emissions from the world’s 50,000 power plants and the firms that own them. CARMA was widely welcomed as a tool for public education and as an important first step toward reliable, consistent information on plant-level emissions that will be crucial for future international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In this new working paper, CGD senior fellow David Wheeler and co-author Kevin Ummel describe CARMA’s methodology, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and test its accuracy across countries and at different geographical scales. They also invite power companies that have verified emissions data to submit them for inclusion in CARMA.