Tagged ‘Carbon Emissions’
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IMF Makes Case for Ending Trillion-Dollar Global Energy Subsidies
The International Monetary Fund has released a report urging governments to end subsidies for petroleum, electricity, natural gas and coal, which globally amounted to $1.9 trillion in 2011 even as energy prices continued to rise.
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Report: As Congestion Worsens, Public Transit’s Benefits Grow
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute finds that congestion has cost car commuters more time and money every year for three decades. Meanwhile, public transit has saved commuters more time and money annually over the same period.
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Emanuel’s Infrastructure Trust Solicits Investors for First Project
The Chicago Infrastructure Trust, which seeks private partners to pay for the city’s public projects, has issued a request for qualifications. First up: A $200 million effort to make energy efficient retrofits to city buildings.
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Bidding Farewell to Mexico City’s Green Mayor
A look back at six years of planning successes in one of the world’s largest and most complicated cities.
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URBAN NATION: Climate Change Policy Evolving at the Local Level
The topic of climate change may have seldom come up during this election season. But inaction on the part of the feds has allowed city governments to develop their own climate change policies, and observers have come to see action at the local level not as a stopgap until the federal government steps up, but as a worthy substitute.
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Dispatches from Rio: C40 Cities Pledge to Cut Two Counties’ Worth of Carbon Emissions
The 59 cities participating in the C40 program will attempt to reduce their collective carbon output by 1.3 billion tonnes — equal to the amount of emissions from Mexico and Canada combined in 2008 — over the next two decades.
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China: A Sustainable Example for the U.S.?
A look at a new report that presents a surprising finding: The average Chinese citizen has a smaller carbon footprint than the average American.
