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Latest
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Illegal
logging falls by up to 75% during the last decade
A report
released today has found that iIllegal logging is estimated
to have fallen by between 50-75% during the last decade in Cameroon, the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia.
The report argues that it is essential that initiatives to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation in developing countries reinforce the existing response to
illegal logging and poor forest governance, rather than distract from
it. Read more about the report, including a video interview with
its author, Chatham House Associate Fellow Sam Lawson by following the
link below...
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Businesses must recognize new energy realities
As
the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has amply demonstrated, growing
global energy demand and the anticipated constraints on some
conventional fossil fuels pose an escalating threat to the security of
energy supply for global businesses, says this new report produced by
EEDP in collaboration with Lloyd's, which has been downloaded
almost 100,000 times since its release in June. Find out more
about the report on the Chatham House website and watch Senior
Research Fellow, Antony Froggatt discussing the report and its findings
by following th e links below.
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Cleo
Paskal wins Grantham prize for environmental journalism
The
Grantham Prize jury have awarded Associate Fellow Cleo Paskal a special
merit award for environmental journalism, praising her book, Global
Warring for going "where other examinations of climate change have
not - beyond the impacts to particular species or ecosystems and to the
very structure on which our global civilization is built: the
relationships between and among nations."
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Trade, financing and climate
change Presenting the findings of a two year project by
EEDP, this conference focused on key components under the trade and
climate change policy agenda: competitiveness, scaling up renewable
investment, piloting large-scale low carbon development in emerging economies
and the role of intellectual property rights in innovation and
technology transfer...
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Pandemics
and the need for a preventative response
EEDP and the Centre for Global Health Security convened
experts to discuss how the economic and political issues that cause
tensions between different sectors could be navigated to combat the
emergence of infectious diseases and move towards an approach that
tackles disease threats at source...
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Security Jam
The
first of its kind, the security jam was an innovative online forum
bringing together experts from NGOs, security and defence
practitioners, leading political and military figures, academics and
journalists to contribute ideas to the security issues that will shape
our future...
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Aligning climate and
development agendas in the Mekong
Using Vietnam, Cambodia
and Laos
as an example, this paper by Senior Research Fellow Heike
Baumüller highlights opportunities and strategies for regional
cooperation to jointly tackle climate change impacts and move towards
low carbon development...
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Read more... / Visit securityjam.org
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Investor Risk in Frontier Oil - deepwater & tar
sands| Thursday 29 July
This event
will bring together investors, analysts and commentators to discuss the
implications of frontier oil and possible future directions both for the
oil industry and the investment community in light of the deepwater oil
spill...
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