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Issues In The Valuation Of PV/Renewables: Estimating The Present Value of Externality Streams With A Digression on DSM This paper continues and extends previous research dealing with the role of financial risk measurement in the valuation of renewable and conventional energy technologies. This previous work concludes that proper valuation of resource alternatives in the context of IRP can be made with the application of market-based, (risk-adjusted) discount rates, as opposed to the present practice of discounting all revenue requirement components at the firm's weighted average cost of capital (WACC).

JI Online This homepage is designed to be your online resource for information about JI activities in the United States and abroad. It includes official information from the United States Initiative on Joint Implementation (USIJI), other government programs that support JI activities, and information on private sector programs to reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.

League of Conservation Voters (LCV) The League of Conservation Voters works to create a Congress more responsive to your environmental concerns. As the bipartisan political voice for over nine million members of environmental and conservation groups, LCV is the only national environmental organization dedicated full-time to educating citizens about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress..

Living Within our Environmental Means: Natural Resources And An Optimum Human Population An article by Rachel F. Preiser. In a recently published report, "Natural Resources and an Optimum Human Population," Cornell University professor Dr. David Pimentel has presented some sobering statistics indicating the insufficiency of world resources to sustain a rapidly-expanding human population.

Modeling the Global Environment: Is the Montreal Protocol a Useful Precedent? By the time the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987) entered into force the diplomatic community was convinced that other environmental problems could be effectively handled by the same "framework-protocol" model. It has since become "conventional wisdom" that the Montreal Protocol is the model for solving other global problems, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity. This paper challenges this wisdom by arguing it is unlikely the success of the Montreal Protocol will be replicated in a global warming regime. The second section of the paper offers alternate paths to addressing global warming.

National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety (NCVECS) WWW Site This WWW page is being provided as a public access to information about NCVECS as well as topics and issues related to mobile sources emissions, including but not limited to: light duty vehicle emissions research, On-Board Diagnostics II, automotive emissions repair tips, automotive technician training issues, Basic and Enhanced I/M inspection program issues, and Federal and State legislative activities related to this area.

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) A national resource for climate information.

National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank / NESE DB The National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank (NESE DB) is a collection of the most recent and comprehensive information on important issues in the United States. This databank comprises over 65,000 documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, tables, and time series.

Natural Resources Research Information Pages Natural Resources Research Information Pages (NRRIPS) are intended to be an Internet resource guide for natural resources students, researchers and practitioners.

Natural Resources Defense Council Environmental information and news on-line from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Non-Nuclear Energy (JOULE-THERMIE) JOULE Component The objectives of this programme are three-fold : to reduce the environmental impact of energy use and to carry out research into renewable energy sources and fossil fuels.

Ocean Information Center (OCEANIC) The Ocean Information Center (OCEANIC) maintains information on: (1) WOCE-World Ocean Circulation Experiment; (2) TOGA - Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment; (3) Research Ship Information and Schedules; and (4) Research Ship Information and Schedules.

Oceanography Resources on the Internet A list of some of the oceanography resources that can be found on the Internet.

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) U. S. Congress This is a link to an excellent study entitled "Studies of the Environmental Costs of Electricity." The report examines studies that assign monetary value to the environmental effects of energy technologies. The report examines a set of environmental cost studies, compares and contrasts their methods and assumptions, and discusses how they could be made more useful to federal policymakers.

On Governments and Glaciers "We know we've reached crisis point when the glaciers are moving faster than the governments." It was perhaps this eloquent statement, by the World Wildlife Fund's energy campaigner, Adam Markham, which most succinctly summed up the feelings of the environment lobby around the world. For many of its members, June was the month when hope gave way to despair: in Europe, government energy ministers failed to approve the targets for renewable energy set out in a long awaited policy paper; and at the Earth Summit in New York, Japan joined the oil producing nations in blocking the way for a political statement on binding targets for CO2 emission cuts.

Our Environment An on-line environmental magazine.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pollution Prevention Web Site The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of nine U.S. Department of Energy multi-program national laboratories operated by Battelle Memorial Institute. Staff at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) conduct research in nearly every field of basic science to solve problems in the areas of the environment, energy, health and national security.

Pacific Rim Enterprise Center The Pacific Rim Enterprise Center is an independent, non-profit organization that protects and restores the global environment by providing innovative solutions to critical environmental problems.

PIENet - Environmental Global Links Australian department of Primary Industries and Energy Global Catalogues on Environment. The extent of this page is to provide an initial entry point to comprehensive World Environment meta catalogue sites. Some links are also provided to slected outstanding sites in the subject area.

Plant the Future The tree-planters' home page where you can learn all about the Global ReLeaf 2000 Campaign to plant 20 million trees for the year 2000.

Pollution Engineering Online Pollution Engineering is the only environmental magazine that covers manufacturing locations and waste treatment facilities that purchase more than 85% of the $40.5 billion spent annually for products, equipment and services to prevent, control, treat and dispose of air, water, solid and hazardous contaminants in the $134 billion environmental market.