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September 19, 2008
Climate policy experts from think tanks and academia have urged the World Bank to begin calculating the social and environmental costs of carbon emissions from the projects it funds and to include these calculations in project assessments. But bank officials rejected the calls, saying that the calc...
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...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2008
The Washington Post was the first to cover CGD’s release of CARMA 2.0, featuring the new data in the August 27 print edition of the paper. Several mainstream outlets and their blogs chased the Post story digging deeper into the data. CARMA’s data sparked a controversy when it revealed that the India...
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...
August 22, 2008
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