<p> European insights from the integration of emissions trading systems helped inform participants at GLOBE 2010, North America&rsquo;s largest international conference on business and the environment. Michael Mehling of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC joined a panel sponsored by the German Consulate General in Vancouver.</p>

Tanja Srebotnjak, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, with co-authors Professor Christopher Murray and Professor Ali Mokdad from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, published a methods paper in Population Health Metrics on small area estimation.

This article by Christiane Gerstetter, Dominic Marcellino, and Elena von Sperber explores the state of the climate technology transfer negotiations following the COP 15 meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. The article appears in the Spring 2010 edition of the journal Carbon and Climate Law Review.

<p> Decision makers and policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic converged in Brussels to discuss the relationship of the European Union and the United States in a changing and multipolar world.</p>

As the impacts of climate change and global demand for marine resources have increased, the development of an integrated, holistic marine governance framework has become a key goal for both the EU and US. Recent policy events on both sides of the Atlantic provide a window of opportunity to significantly improve marine governance in national and international waters. To this end, the Ecologic Institute led a transatlantic project team that convened a multi-stakeholder dialogue allowing experts from the EU, US and other regions to develop best practices for integrated marine management.

<p> International climate negotiations featured in a panel discussion on 2 December 2009 at the Center for German and European Studies of Brandeis University in Boston, where the Ecologic Institute was asked to provide expert insights on the likely outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit later that month. Titled &ldquo;Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference: What is the Deal? Global Perspectives on a Failed Global Climate Change Agreement&rdquo;, this panel attracted a large number of participants to discuss the prospects for a legally binding climate change agreement.</p>

<p> On 24 November 2009, the Ecologic Institute was invited to address students in a lecture series titled &ldquo;Generation Green: Germany and the Environment&rdquo;&nbsp; organized by the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. The course explored how and why Germany&#39;s Green movement addressed&nbsp; pressing environmental challenges a generation before the release of Al&nbsp; Gore&#39;s &quot;An Inconvenient Truth&quot;, allowing students to consider how specific cultural contexts shape personal attitudes, public policies and&nbsp; technological advances. Michael Mehling shared insights on &ldquo;Germany&#39;s Ecological Tax Reform: Perspectives from a Think Tank&rdquo;.</p>