New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities

BBC World’s Earth Report has just started a new series of reports and the first edition is a powerful programme on deforestation in Indonesia and the impact that this has on carbon emissions.  Across south east asia peat swamp forest is being drained to make way for oil palm or pulpwood trees. The destruction of tropical forests causes about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than the world’s entire transport sector – making tropical forest countries such as Indonesia, some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. Which incentives will be most effective in limiting the permanent damage of huge rates of deforestation and the costs of damaging burning trees?

Unit 2 Macro: Focus on China - Inflation [26 Jan 2012]
Externalities in Action- TED Talk [23 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Illegal logging and the human cost [23 Jan 2012]
Externalities in song [22 Jan 2012]
Externalities Cartoon [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Competitive Advantage in Trade (Some Videos) [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Prezi on Environmental Economics [11 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Freakonomics [9 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Negative Externalities [8 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities from Metal Theft [2 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Biomass Subsidies and Timber Prices [30 Dec 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Video Clips on Negative Production Externalities [29 Dec 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Sub Normal Profits - BP Leaves the Solar Industry [21 Dec 2011]
Economics of Deforestation [20 Dec 2011]
Prezi on Information Failures [20 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Long Term Unemployment - A Human Story [15 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Will a Youth Jobs Subsidy Work? [30 Nov 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Video Clips on Unemployment [6 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Unilever hit by rising costs [6 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Impulses to Change Management Models [5 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Costs and Benefits of a Super Sewer for London [1 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: UK Executive Pay - All in it Together? [29 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Is the Sun Dipping on Solar Subsidies? [27 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Ofcom gives stamp of approval for flexible pricing in mail [21 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Tesco Behaving Badly - Price Anchoring [17 Oct 2011]
Can the “invisible hand” solve Africa’s poverty? [13 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Unit Labour Costs and Inflation [12 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Copper prices and a copper crime wave [10 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Supply and Demand Rap! [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Drink Driving and Government Intervention [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Market Supply [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Greek Economy at Default’s Door [25 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Bangladesh and Comparative Advantage in Textiles [19 Sep 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Fixed and Variable Costs [18 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Short Run Costs of Production [6 Sep 2011]
NHS spending good, private provision bad? [5 Sep 2011]
Starter Activity: Health Economics [1 Sep 2011]
Economics at the Movies: The Cove - Trade in Dolphins [28 Aug 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Quiz on Business Costs and Profits [25 Aug 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Cotton Prices and the Retail Price of Clothing [13 Jul 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Economics of Volatile Corn Prices [12 Jul 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Dangers of High Inflation [11 Jul 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Reducing Unemployment after a Recession [11 Jul 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Oligopsony - Dairy Losses Drive Farmers from the Fields [10 Jul 2011]
Where there’s muck there’s brass [6 Jul 2011]
Glastonbury, rain, mud, abandoned tents and negative externalities. [4 Jul 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Are carbon taxes ineffective? [20 Jun 2011]
Oceans at grave risk [20 Jun 2011]
Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AQA Macro: Remember to revise inflation [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Cost Push Inflation [24 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Inflation [24 May 2011]
Revision notes on unemployment [22 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Price Discrimination [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro:  Monopsony Power in Markets [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: High and Low Marginal Cost Products [19 May 2011]
Super-cooperators and Game Theory [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Perfect Competition [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Outsourcing [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Business Growth [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation Efficiency and Welfare [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Ownership and Control in Modern Businesses [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Moving Away from Profit Max [18 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Diseconomies of Scale [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Minimum Efficient Scale [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: External Economies of Scale [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Economies of Scope [18 May 2011]
AS economics: Using the cost-benefit principle [18 May 2011]
Electric car charging points ‘shortfall’ [11 May 2011]
Interest Rates Held at 0.5% once again [5 May 2011]
Dominos Pizza turns to Behavioural Economics [5 May 2011]
A2 Micro: EU Aviation - State Aid and State Ownership [28 Apr 2011]
Wiki Revision: A to Z on Monopoly [23 Apr 2011]
A2 Micro: Changes in Costs and Profits [23 Apr 2011]
Externalities of Oil Pollution [22 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Public and Private Goods [21 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Taxes and Subsidies [18 Apr 2011]
Externalities of Nitrogen Pollution in Europe [16 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Costs and Profits [16 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Prices [15 Apr 2011]
China set to become exporter of inflation [14 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Frictional Unemployment [11 Apr 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Solar Panels and Economies of Scale [11 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: Prices for New and Second Hand Cars [9 Apr 2011]
UK Minimum Wage rises by 2.5% in October 2011 [8 Apr 2011]
RES Essay Competition - Obesity and a Fat Tax [7 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Aggregate Supply Shock [6 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Inflationary Pressure [5 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Banana Prices [1 Apr 2011]
The Power of Incentives [31 Mar 2011]
OCR F585 June 2011: Competitiveness [31 Mar 2011]
Progress towards low carbon economic growth [18 Mar 2011]

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