Yasuni-ITT Initiative ThesisAvailable

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Wil Burns

A new document regarding the Yasuni-ITT Initiative (the innovative initiative of Ecuador to keep petroleum underground, protect biodiversity and indigenous peoples, and develop sustainably) is now available online: The Yasuni-ITT Initiative: an international equity mechanism? Master thesis. The thesis aimed at analysing and assessing whether the Yasuni-ITT Initiative can be considered as an alternative pilot [...]

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Climate Interactive Scorecard on the Copenhagen Accord

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Wil Burns

In the past few days, I’ve summarized the take of the World Resources Institute and WWF on the Copenhagen Accord. A new analysis by Climate Interactive, comprised  of researchers from Sustainability Institute, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Ventana Systems,  provides an even more pessimistic assessment. Using the C-Roads computer simulation, the researchers concluded [...]

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