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The Climate Resilience-Economy Nexus: Advancing Common Goals

Communities across the United States are experiencing increasingly severe and frequent floods, wildfires, extreme heat, and other hazards due to climate change. These hazards are impacting local economies by damaging critical infrastructure and commercial districts, disrupting business operations, reducing municipal budgets, threatening worker safety, and reducing housing supply and affordability, among other impacts. Economic development […]

Cities, Resilience
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Testimony of Elliot Diringer – Canadian House of Commons – May 31, 2005
Elliot Diringer
May 31, 2005
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Common Metrics: Comparing Countries’ Climate Pledges

To enable a better understanding of the mitigation pledges offered under the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancún Agreements, this analysis converts the 2020 pledges of the major economies into four common metrics: percent change in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990; percent change from 2005; percent change from “business as usual” and; percent change in emissions […]

UN Talks
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We could find common ground on a carbon tax
Eileen Claussen
November 20, 2012
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My mission at C2ES: Building common ground
Bob Perciasepe
August 11, 2014
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What role for carbon markets in the 2015 climate agreement?

The following was published in the February 2015 edition of Biores, a publication of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.   Will the current UN climate talks do enough to create common standards for international emissions trading in the future or should interested parties look outside the multilateral process?  Around the world governments […]

Cap and Trade, Carbon Pricing
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Congressional Testimony of Eileen Claussen: Copenhagen and Beyond: Is There a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?
Eileen Claussen
November 4, 2009
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Congressional Testimony of Elliot Diringer on the Global Climate Talks and U.S. Action
Elliot Diringer
May 25, 2011
Testimony/Comments
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Fundamentals of Climate Change
Elliot Diringer
January 11, 2002
UN Talks
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Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries: Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over global climate change is the perceived divide between the interests and obligations of developed and developing countries. Equity demands that developed countries-the source of most past and current emissions of greenhouse gases-act first to reduce emissions. That principle is embedded in the 1992 United Nations […]
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