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Biofuels Vital Graphics: Powering a Green Economy
http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/biofuels/The report addresses the complexity of biofuels, and highlights their
potential for contributing to a green economy. It is based on a 2009
report entitled Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources:
Assessing Biofuels by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource
Management of the United Nations Environment Programme, as well
as later studies (report will be launched in 2012).
Vital Waste Graphics 3
Vital Waste Graphics 3 has a deliberately wider scope than the Basel
Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazard-
ous Wastes and their Disposal. From generation to disposal, waste is
a by-product of societal dynamics, and all too often absent from our
consideration. Vital Waste Graphics 3 seeks to put waste in context by:
looking at some of the forces driving global trends; examining various
concerns and the strategies developed to address them; and, consider-
ing the difficulties encountered in implementing these strategies (re-
port will be launched in 2012).
Blue Carbon: First Level Exploration of Natural Coastal Carbon in the
Arabian Peninsula (With Special Focus on the UAE and Abu Dhabi)
GRID-Arendal was commissioned by the Abu Dhabi Global Environ-
mental Data Initiative (AGEDI) to prepare this feasibility study on blue
carbon that was launched at a major blue carbon event during the Eye
of the Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi, 12-15 December. The report explores
the mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and sea grass meadows
that act as natural carbon sinks in the Arabian Peninsula. The report
is intended to generate regional support for the conservation and sus-
tainable management of blue carbon ecosystems.