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Nearly two years after Kyoto, most OECD countries are looking towards ratification and implementation of their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. What do historical emissions and policy trends tell us about the way forward? Which policies will be needed to combat climate change? This book...
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Climate policy raises a number of challenges for the energy sector, the most significant being the transition from a high to a low-CO2 energy path in a few decades. Act Locally, Trade Globally seeks to provide a complete picture of the future role of emissions trading in climate policy and the...
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Climate policy raises a number of challenges for the energy sector, the most significant being the transition from a high to a low-CO2 energy path in a few decades.  Act Locally, Trade Globally seeks to provide a complete picture of the future role of emissions trading in climate policy and the...
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Mitigating climate change will require profound changes in world energy production and use. While the full effects of climate change are not likely to be felt for decades, the need for action is more immediate, for changes in greenhouse gas concentrations are almost irreversible. Solutions exist...
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harm and corporate benefits related to individual cartel cases. This was prepared as background material for the session …
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This paper was prepared as a background note for a discussion held at the OECD in October 2015 on Cartels Involving Intermediate Goods. It discusses the specific nature of cartels in intermediate goods and to examine the bearing this may have on their functioning and detection. The paper also...
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This paper discusses some of the complementarities and trade-offs that the fight against collusion and corruption present to policy makers. It illustrates with examples from Latin America. It was prepared as background material for the session "Improving Effective Public Procurement: Fighting...
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tools that require a higher level of proactivity from the agency, for instance, industry monitoring and cartel screenings … improve their detection tools. This paper provides an overview of detection tools to launch ex officio cartel investigations … competition authorities to implement a variety of approaches to complement one another and enhance cartel detection. …
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Prior to the Copenhagen meeting on developing a new framework for climate-change policy there were sharp differences between the positions of developed and developing countries regarding the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in fostering international technology transfer (ITT)....
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