Modellers have examined a wide array of ideal-world scenarios for regulation of greenhouse gases. In this ideal world …”—which has a strikingly small impact on total world cost of carbon regulations if international trade in emission credits allows … another factor that analysts have largely ignored: credibility. In the real world governments find it difficult to craft and …

contains several idealistic assumptions that could be violated in the real world where some technologies may not be fully … available, technology transfers and diffusion are imperfect, some world regions may not accept to reduce their GHG emissions …

greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism' an international emission …