The Pew Center on Global Climate Change released a new report
examining measures contributing to climate change mitigation in
Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey. The report
found that these measures have reduced the countries' combined
greenhouse gas emissions growth by nearly 300 million tons a year.
If not for these efforts, the report concluded, emissions in the
six countries could be about 19 percent higher than they are today.

Among the many efforts identified are market and energy reforms
to promote economic growth; development of alternative fuels to
reduce energy imports; aggressive energy efficiency programs;
use of solar and other renewable energy to raise living standards
in rural locations; reducing deforestation; slowing population growth;
and switching from coal to natural gas to diversify energy sources
and reduce air pollution.

Broader implementation of such efforts could reduce future emissions
growth by an additional 300 million tons a year by 2010, the report
estimates.

Full text of the report is available at:

http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/dev_mitigation.cfm