The message from the IPCC Reports is simple: climate change must be tackled immediately in order to save the planet. And it will not cost the earth to do so. In the months to come all nations will be put to test. Will they do what needs to be done?

Despite the stark warning contained in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), endorsed even by governments the world over, that GHG concentrations in the atmosphere are on the verge of causing irreversible, probably catastrophic, climate change that...

This presentation describes the IDB's support for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the transport sector in Latin America. Two projects highlighted are the Integrated Mobility Plan in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Bus System Optimization in Mexico. The presentation concludes with...

This presentation summarizes the IDB's support for energy efficiency in the region, specifically technical assistance and funding instruments to promote and energy efficiency through technical cooperation, technical assistance for development of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs),...

In 2008, New Zealand became the first country to introduce a comprehensive Emissions Trading Scheme that includes all sectors and all gases. While NZ can claim the high ground in the international arena, the emissions trading scheme will impose substantial economic costs and its success will...

The balance between water demand and availability has reached a critical level in many areas of Europe, the result of over-abstraction and prolonged periods of low rainfall or drought. Reduced river flows, lowered lake and groundwater levels, and the drying up of wetlands are widely reported,...

The relative cost of carbon emissions reductions across regions depends on whether we measure cost by marginal or total cost, private or economy-wide cost, and using market or purchasing power parity exchange rates. If all countries are on the same marginal carbon abatement cost curve then lower...

This report proposes an extension to existing models of non-expected utility (NEU) in the stated preference (SP) literature. The extension incorporates the impact of multiple sources of ambiguity in individual decision making behaviour. Empirical testing of the proposed decision model was...