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Press Release
November 17, 2009
WASHINGTON,D.C.(November 11, 2009) -An online tool to monitor tropical rainforests, released today by the Center for Global Development (CGD), detects forest loss in areas as small as a square kilometer (about a third of a square mile), making it easy to know when and where forest destruction is occ...
Nov
18
2009
12:30—3:00 PM
November 09, 2009
Forest clearing in developing countries is an enormous contributor to global warming, accounting for about 15% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The Bali Action Plan seeks ways to reward countries for reducing these emissions--an agenda known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Fore...
Jun
23
2009
4:00—5:30 PM
June 01, 2009
As part of the "Demographics and Development in the 21st Century" series, CGD Senior Fellow David Wheeler will summarize the cross-country research he conducted with Dan Hammer on the economics of population policy for carbon emissions reduction. Wheeler includes assessments of the effects of family...