Products from the Nicholas Institute
Reports:
DRAFT: Designing
Offsets Policy for the U.S
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DRAFT:
Integrating State, Regional and Federal Greenhouse Gas Markets:
Options and Tradeoffs
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Harnessing
Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy: How to
Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets
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Adaptive
Implementation of Water Quality Improvement Plans: Opportunities
and Challenges
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The
Future of Water in North Carolina: Strategies for Sustaining
Clean and Abundant Water - conference report
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Convenient
Guide for Climate Change Policy and Technology
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For
Security’s Sake:
Can the United States help petroleum rich nations avoid the resource curse?
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Water,
Development and US Policy
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Pathway
to Ocean Ecosystem-Based Management: Design Principles for
Regional Ocean Governance in the United States
A Consensus Document from the October 2005 Symposium of the Duke Environmental
Law and Policy Forum.
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Do
Recent Scientific Findings Undermine the Climate Benefits
of Carbon Sequestration in Forests
An Expert Review of Recent Studies on Methane Emissions
and Water Tradeoffs
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more recent papers on methane emssions
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Balancing
U.S. Interests in the UN Law of the Sea Convention
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The
Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act: A Preliminary
Assessment of Potential Economic Impacts
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G8
Leadership is Critical to Curbing Energy-Related CO2 Emissions
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Size
Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Regulation: Who Would be Affected
by a 10,000-ton CO2 Emissions Rule?
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Climate
Change Science: What We Know
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A
Cap and Trade System for Greenhouse Gases
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Hart-McInturff
Environmental Survey
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- A “Core” Requirement for Creation of a REDD market >
- North Carolina Groin Installation >
- Drawing the line in sand or in cement: preparing North Carolina’s estuaries for climate change and population growth. >
BEST BUS Model - November 2006
BEST BUS is a decision support model for fleet managers and other transit specialists interested in finding best cost alternatives for reducing fleet emissions, enabling comparisons between current and replacement buses.
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Greenhouse
Gas Allowance Allocation: Cost Pass-Through, Sector Differentiation
and Economic Implications
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Data
and Methods to Estimate National Historical Deforestation
Baselines in Support of UNFCCC REDD
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Iron
Fertilization in the Ocean for Climate Mitigation: Legal,
Economic, and Environmental Challenges
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A
Path to Greenhouse Gas Reductions in the United States: Economic
Modeling of Interim National Targets
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A
New Opportunity to Help Mitigate Climate Change, Save Forests,
and Reach Development Goals
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The
Future of Water in North Carolina: Strategies for Sustaining
Clean and Abundant Water - pre-conference document
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U.S.
Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns:
The Limits and Options of International Trade Law
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Carbon
Capture, Pipeline and Storage: A Viable Option for North
Carolina
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Establishing
Credible Baselines for Quantifying Avoided Carbon Emissions
from Reduced Deforestation and Forest Degradation
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