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A GLOBAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT EVENT Green Growth and International Cooperation Climate Change, Environment, Global Environment, Sustainable Development, Environmental Regulation Save Register Share Facebook inShare StumbleUpon E-mail Print EVENT SUMMARY As the world grapples with global environmental concerns, such as climate change and sustainable development, countries are finding ways to pursue green growth. Green growth pathways would combine sustainable resource use with the pursuit of economic growth, job creation and poverty alleviation, through expanding green innovation, technologies and markets. However, the environmental challenges facing the international community cannot be addressed without cooperation among global actors. In order for real green growth and sustainable development to be achieved, both international and domestic action must support it. Event Information When Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM Where Falk Auditorium The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC Map Event Materials Reuters/Aly Song Contact: Brookings Office of Communications Email: events@brookings.edu Phone: 202.797.6105 RELATED CONTENT Top 10 Global Economic Challenges Facing America's 44th President The Brookings Institution October 2008 From Copenhagen to Cancun: Time to Scale Up from the Bottom Up Katherine Sierra The National Journal December 03, 2010 Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Finance: Key Lessons Katherine Sierra, Miriam Chaum, Chris Faris, Gernot Wagner, Barbara Buchner, Angela Falconer, Chiara Trabacchi and Jessica Brown The Brookings Institution, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Climate Policy Initiative, and the Overseas Development Institute November 23, 2011 More Related Content » On March 27, Global Economy and Development at Brookings will host a discussion on the intersection of green growth and international cooperation. Panelists will include: Rachel Kyte, vice president of Sustainable Development at

Using planetary science to shape economics By Oliver Greenfield - Green Economy Coalition - September, 2011 Six big ideas for a green infrastructure capable of protecting people and future generations Economic theory (and common sense) tells us that when something is valuable, and it is free, its use tends to infinity - this explains why trees, biodiversity, freshwater and atmospheric space for carbon are all being used 'like there is no tomorrow'. It also assumes that when something is exhausted (or too expensive), a substitute is almost certain to be found. Economic theory then takes this substitution concept up to a macro level and thinks of the 'trade-off' between environment and economy. The logic is that we can have 'more environment' if we are prepared to put up with 'less economy', or we can have 'less environment' if we want a bigger economy. The traditional economic world view that dominates the political spectrum is based on infinite resources, substitution, and ultimately this trade-off between environment and economy. If the rationale behind our economic system is based on some of these assumptions, then it seems fitting for us to explore whether the planet can indeed support these assumptions. Let us take a quick journey into planetary science. Back to basics Gravitational forces, generated both by the earth orbiting the sun and the moon orbiting the planet, create movement and flow of magma, collision of tectonic plates and surfacing of minerals. These minerals are weathered and distributed across the earth's surface, primarily by water. The constant heating and cooling created by the earth's rotation accelerates the chemical reactions between newly released minerals (soils and rocks) and atmospheric gases. These chemical reactions are the pool from which life emerged, creating single cells capable of using minerals and energy from the sun to photosynthesise; generating proteins for their own growth, and respiring to br

Water Accounting International Approaches to Policy and Decision-making Jayne M. Godfrey , Keryn Chalmers Edited by Jayne M. Godfrey, Dean, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University and Keryn Chalmers, Head, Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University 2012 336 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 749 4 Hardback $150.00 on-line price $135.00 Qty This book is also available as an ebook  978 1 84980 750 0 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description One of the most pressing global issues of the 21st century is the scarcity of water of a quantity appropriate to ensure economic, environmental and social sustainability. In addressing the issue through policy and management, of critical importance is access to high quality information. But water scarcity has many implications, and it is possible that different reporting approaches, generally called water accounting systems, can be appropriate to addressing them. In this groundbreaking book, international experts respond to the question: what role can water accounting play in resolving individual, organizational, industry, national and international economic, social and environmental issues? They explore how various forms of water accounting are utilized and the issues that they address.

  CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on "Carbon Markets: An International Perspective" Call for papers for a special issue of International Journal of Global Energy Issues  (IJGEI). Recently, carbon markets have been spreading both regionally and internationally. While there is increasing public interest in so-called emissions markets to regulate the environment, there is an even greater need for researchers to analyse the sphere of carbon markets in its globality and to encompass its complexity. This special issue of IJGEI aims at developing various applications incorporating energy- and environmentally-related issues of carbon markets. We encourage submissions of original theoretical and empirical research papers, meta-analytic reviews, and narrative literature reviews on new developments in the sphere of carbon markets, its relationship to other energy markets and regulations, and the consequent new uses of carbon markets that may be proposed at an international and/or regional scale. We aim to report the latest advancements in the highly interdisciplinary research and development area of carbon markets, with applications in the fields of economics, econometrics, statistics, finance, engineering, management, geography, environmental policy, climate policy and political science. In view of this, this issue expects to enhance the state-of-the-art in instrumentation and the political insight required for managing the various problems and challenges in designing efficient and effective carbon market regulation. More information. Deadline: September 1, 2011 Tags: calls, climate Social bookmark this # permanent link, posted by CAPRi @ 10:15 AM

Environmentalists have much to despair about when it comes to the current lack of urgency surrounding the fight against climate change. Cowed by recession and chastened by over-reach in the run-up to the 2009 Copenhagen talks, policy-makers have de-emphasised global warming as a pressing issue and, in the US particularly, efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions appear to have gone into reverse. This loss of focus undoubtedly affects investors - especially opportunistic ones looking for the next investment theme to make them money. While media interest and politicians' soundbites do not make an investment case, they do generate interest and at least encourage investors to explore 'sexy' new areas such as alternative energy, low-carbon transport or carbon trading. Their absence matters. So it is heartening to see two initiatives that provide evidence that institutional investors are increasingly concerned about climate change, and which will also serve to accelerate the integration of environmental analysis into the investment 'mainstream'. The first is the news that rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) is to begin systematically integrating climate risk into all its corporate bond ratings. The outcome will be a carbon exposure figure expressed in dollars or euros of earnings - a purely financial metric designed with clear relevance to fixed income investors. Of course, for most companies, that figure will not be material at present - and Michael Wilkins, the S&P managing director leading the initiative, acknowledges that the move will not lead to a slew of 'rating actions' over the next year or so. But S&P is getting ready for when "carbon policy is going to bite hard". Meanwhile, investment consultancy Mercer has released a landmark report - The Impact of Climate Change on Strategic Asset Allocation - intended to guide institutional investors as they seek to manage the risks and exploit the opportunities presented by the issue