Climate impacts of land-use change in China
2009 study by the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research and the China Meteorological Administration on the climate impacts of land-use change in China.
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Human contribution to precipitation extremes
2011 study published in Nature on the relationship between human-induced increases in greenhouse gases and increased weather extremes.
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Effect of local weather on perceptions about global warming
2012 study by New York University and Temple University on the link between local weather patterns and perceptions of climate change.
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Energy innovation and competition among U.S., China, India, Brazil
2010 study by the Council on Foreign Relations on issues of technology research and development among major countries.
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Peak travel? Trends in passenger transport
2011 Stanford and U.C. Berkeley study on global trends in transportation and how they may impact predictions about future carbon emissions levels.
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The greenness of cities: C02 emissions and urban development
2008 policy brief by the Rappaport Institute and Taubman Center on carbon dioxide emissions across metropolitan and suburban areas in the United States.
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Climate change and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century
2008 paper by researchers from Harvard, MIT and Northwestern University on the potential effect of climate change on nations’ economic growth.
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Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification
2010 study by Stanford University that seeks to quantify the effects of fertilizers and higher crop yields on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries
2010 study by Harvard, Princeton, the University of Adelaide, and the National University of Singapore on the environmental impact of a large set of countries.
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Who’s winning the clean energy race?
2010 paper on the increased investment of key developing nations in the global production of clean-energy technology.
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