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Expanding Short Sea Shipping in California: Environmental Impacts and Recommended Best Practices
This report examines the harmful impacts of short sea shipping in California and proposes ways to reduce them.
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Dirty Business: How TransCanada Pipelines bullies farmers, manipulates oil markets, threatens fresh water and skimps on safety in the United States.
This report examines the underhanded tactics and motivations of TransCanada Pipelines in pushing for approval of its proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.
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Corn ethanol and climate change
How the Renewable Fuel Standard mandates the consumption of biofuels that contribute to climate change.
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REDD+ and carbon markets: Ten myths exploded
The United Nations’ negotiations on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – REDD+ – has become increasingly central in global discussions on climate change. This paper tak…
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State the Forest Carbon Markets: A Critical Perspective
This briefing reviews the state of the existing forest carbon market as well as the costs and benefits of a carbon offset approach for developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities to…
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The Case for a Strong Polar Code
This report provides recommendations for minimizing the environmental risks associated with polar shipping.
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Ten Ways to Game the Carbon Market
Carbon trading systems are complex, and the more complex they are, the easier they are to manipulate
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Synthetic Solutions to the Climate Crisis: The Dangers of Synthetic Biology for Biofuels Production
This report highlights our concerns with using synthetic biology to develop next-generation fuels. Synthetic biology is a dangerous, untested, unregulated technology that threatens the environment and…
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Green Scissors 2010
Green Scissors 2010 identifies more than $200 billion in wasteful government spending that is damaging to the environment and harmful to consumers.