A Greenhouse Development Rights analysis of Finland’s role in a climate constrained world (in the context of the EU’s proposed 2020 targets and approach to effort-sharing.

A Greenhouse Development Rights analysis of the Netherlands’ role in a climate constrained world (in the context of the EU’s proposed 2020 targets and approach to effort-sharing.

A major step in the evolution of our country reports, A Greenhouse Development Rights analysis of Denmark’s role in a climate constrained world, in the context of the EU’s proposed 2020 targets and approach to effort-sharing, was a major success.  Its publication was noted in the Dagens Nyheter (the largest Swedish daily newspaper) and led to the Swedish Green Party’s lobbying of the government to support GDRs.

And here’s a nice picture.

The second edition of the Greenhouse Development Rights book is now available.

Download  the entire second edition here.  Download a brief (6 pages) nicely laid-out version of the executive summary here.  Download the longer (10 pages) version of the executive summary here.

The second edition of the Greenhouse Development Rights book is quite similar to the first, which was published in November of 2007.  However, it contains a number of important changes. Many are localized matters of precision and style.  But others are more significant:

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The World Watch Institute’s climate-themed State of the World Report: 2009 contains an extended discussion of Greenhouse Development Rights in its concluding chapter, Sealing the Deal to Save the Planet.  Actually, the whole book is great, and deserves wide reading.