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Energy, Environment and Development-related Chatham House books are listed below.

America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership
May 2010

At a time of economic crisis and involvement in two wars, President Barack Obama took office calling for a renewal of America's global leadership. In this book, senior resident and affiliated scholars offer perspectives...

Climate Change and Forests: Emerging Policy and Market Opportunities
October 2008

Once the province of think tanks, academics, and global agencies such as the UN, climate change has finally penetrated the world's consciousness. To date, international attention has focused primarily on the industrial...

Keeping The Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity
July 2007

We are making a mess of energy. What we're doing with it is leaving people in the dark and endangering the planet. But we could do much better. Keeping The Lights On shows how. In immediate, accessible everyday language...

Oil Titans
March 2006

Ninety per cent of the world’s oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies. Originally created as political instruments, these so-called national oil companies (NOCs) face new demands amid today’s dwindling oil...

Russia and the Kyoto Protocol
March 2006

Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol brought the pact into force and establishes an international market for greenhouse gases. As Parties seek to meet their Kyoto commitments, the main interest in Russian climate...

Policing International Trade in Endangered Species
October 2002

Regulation of the international trade in wildlife, worth billions of dollars a year, is the subject of one of the oldest multilateral environmental agreements, the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered...

Double or Quits?
September 2002

Global energy demand is likely to rise substantially by mid-century. At the same time, the use of fossil fuels may need to be severely curtailed to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Nuclear power is one of only...

Climate Change and Power
May 2002

The electricity sector is one of the largest carbon emitters in Europe. To control these emissions, economic instruments such as emissions trading, taxes, and various voluntary agreements are increasingly being...

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
April 2002

The Cartagena Protocol, the international treaty governing biosafety and trade in biotechnology – one of the most controversial new technologies – has far reaching implications for agriculture, human health and...

Technology Transfer for Renewable Energy
March 2002

This book highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and grid-...
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