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January 2005
"The Case for Intensity Targets"
Discussion Paper
Both China, the nation with the largest emissions of greenhouse gases, and India, the fifth-largest emitter, announced in the week before the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) in Copenhagen that they would offer for the purposes of negotiation "intensity targets" at the COP. (Carbon intensity is the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of GDP.) Neither country had offered any potentially internationally-binding target prior to these. China offered a reduction target of 40–45 percent by 2020, over the 2005 intensity. India, a few days later, announced a "voluntary" target of 20–25 percent over the same period. High on the list of topics discussed in Copenhagen will be the relative value of intensity targets versus absolute emissions-reduction-targets, which most industrialized countries, including, also very recently, the United States (17 percent over 2005—provisionally until Congress enacts domestic climate legislation) have offered.
Winter 2005
Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting in China: An Evaluation of the Current System and Recommendations for Improvements
Journal Article, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, issue 2, volume 33
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting in China: An Evaluation of the Current System and Recommendations for Improvements
Winter 2004/05
"The Perils of Counterinsurgency: Russia's War in Chechnya"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 29
By Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer examines the tactics used by Chechen guerrillas and the responses of Russian military and security forces.
Winter 2004/05
"China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 29
By David Shambaugh, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
International relations in Asia are undergoing fundamental change, and the emergence of China as a key regional player is a major cause.
Winter 2005
Preventing a Nuclear 9/11
Journal Article, Issues in Science and Technology
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
2005
Building a Genuine U.S.-Russian Partnership for Nuclear Security
Conference Paper
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
MTA Research Associate Matthew Bunn presented at the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management on building a genuine partnership between the United States and Russia to improve nuclear security.
Pat Rioux
December 2004
"Success and Failure in Adopting & Demonstrating Complex Technologies: Two cases in China"
Presentation
By Guodong Sun, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Project/ Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2002-2006
The Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP) seeks to combat global warming and climate change by promoting strategies for efficient energy technologies in China, India, and the United States, such as advanced coal technologies, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and advanced vehicle technologies.
Pat Rioux
December 2004
"Finding Solutions to China’s Energy Problems"
Presentation
By Guodong Sun, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Project/ Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 2002-2006
The Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP) seeks to combat global warming and climate change by promoting strategies for efficient energy technologies in China, India, and the United States, such as advanced coal technologies, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and advanced vehicle technologies.
December 17, 2004
A Cascade of Nuclear Proliferation
Op-Ed, International Herald Tribune
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The recent report on global security released by a high-level UN panel identified seven principal threats, from terrorism and poverty to environmental degradation. Among these, though, the panel gives primacy of place to nuclear Armageddon.
December 7, 2004
America Still Vulnerable
Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The new secretary of DHS would do well to address our vulnerabilities before the terrorrists do.
