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New from CGD
January 12, 2010
David Wheeler offers commentary on slides that illustrate his forthcoming paper with Kevin Ummel on a dynamic strategy for developing solar thermal power as a cost-competitive alternative to coal-fired power. They have presented versions of these slides at a number of conferences and policy worksho...
New from CGD
March 06, 2009
Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s climate envoy, Todd Stern were among the high-level participants at the March 3rd symposium, ‘U.S. Climate Change Action: A Global Economic Perspective,' meeting with U.S. legislators, business leaders, and academics on C...
New from CGD
January 19, 2009
Braving freezing temperatures and gusty winds, hundreds of development experts and members of the policy community packed a Washington hotel ballroom for a discussion with David Gergen on the outlook for global development policy under new U.S. president Barack Obama. Gergen, an advisor to four pres...
New from CGD
September 08, 2008
China accounts for more than half of the increase in global CO2 emissions from power production in the past year and has overtaken the U.S. to become the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluter from the generation of electricity. But on a per capita basis, U.S. power-sector emissions driving climat...
Press Release New from CGD
August 27, 2008
WASHINGTON,D.C.(August 27,2008)- China set a new world record this year, surpassing the United States as the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 from power generation, according to new data from the Center for Global Development (CGD). But on a per capita basis, U.S. power-sector emissions are still near...
New from CGD
May 24, 2007
A CGD survey of members of the international development community found overwhelming support for reforming the process of selecting the president of the World Bank. About 85 percent of the more than 700 people who responded since the survey was launched last week agreed that the bank should be head...
New from CGD
May 22, 2007
The resignation of Paul Wolfowitz has sparked a global debate about the choice of the next World Bank president. To help inform this debate, CGD has launched an online survey of views on the selection process, the desired qualifications, and perceptions of the qualifications of some of the possible ...