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experience with carbon markets under the Kyoto protocol. The de facto end of the Kyoto Protocol and heralding of the Paris … Agreement era has created the space for critical evaluation of trading carbon assets. The Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement … Paris are likely to be very different to those that emerged under Kyoto. Nonetheless, experience with carbon markets under …
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the need to tackle climate change. What we need to do now is build unprecedented political action to fulfill the promises. He mentioned that climate volatility in places like the Sahel in Africa contribute to instability and fragility....
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By 2050, two-thirds of the planet's population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percentof the 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world's urban areas wereresponsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that numbercould grow...
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Climate auctions are an innovative climate finance mechanism, with high potential to support nationally determined …
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jurisdictions while ensuring the integrity of trades. The Kyoto Protocol utilized an International Transaction Log (ITL), operated …
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This paper builds on the findings of an earlier unpublished discussion paper titled "designing a model for networked carbon markets", with its objective being to describe key elements of the mitigation value assessment process. The outcome of this paper will inform a model for the Networked...
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The past year has seen a significant increase in global momentum for climate action. As of April 2017, one hundred thirty-seven Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have already submitted their first nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as part of...
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This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
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The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...
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