Living Planet Report 2006

Since 2000, the WWF has issued the Living Planet Report every other year. Read about it in this Mongabay news article.
From the forward:
The Living Planet Report 2006 confirms that we are using the planet’s resources faster than they can be renewed – the latest data available (for 2003) indicate that humanity’s Ecological Footprint, our [...]

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Age of Consequences

The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) was reviewed last December by Dave Archer, a climate scientist as the University of Chicago.
Excerpt from the reveiw:
The “expected” scenario calls for 1.3 °C of warming globally above 1990 levels, by [...]

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UNEP Year Book 2008

The United Nations Environment Programme’s annual report, UNEP Year Book 2008 (PDF, 62 pg, 7 MB), “documents some of the many insights, events, and issues that have emerged during 2007 and, not surprisingly, it is dominated by the theme of climate change.” (See here for translations and individual sections.)
Excerpt:
If average global temperatures increase 3.4° [...]

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CBO: carbon tax vs cap-and-trade

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released a report, Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions (13 pg summary, 25 pg report), comparing a carbon tax to cap-and-trade schemes.
A tax on emissions would be the most efficient incentive-based option for reducing emissions and could be relatively easy to implement. If it was coordinated among major [...]

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UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008

Published in November 2007 by the United Nations Development Programme, the full report is a 384 page PDF. A summary is also available. See this page for links to both and a brief introduction. From the introduction:
FACT: Most wealthy countries, specifically OECD countries, are failing to meet their targets for cutting greenhouse [...]

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