The monetary value of cetacea is gaining increasing interest within academia and the profit- and non-profit sectors, driven principally by the carbon sequestration contributions of cetacea. This paper contributes to this expanding field by reviewing the literatures related to the use and non-use...

A political economy model is presented that proposes an effective explanation as to why national allocation plans in the emissions trading scheme of the European Union have taken the form they have. The influence of the national bureaucracy, which is omitted in the majority of the related...