The institutional landscape of international environmental governance is going to be reassessed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio 2012. A substantial overhaul is overdue. At present, the system neither ensures sufficient protection of global environmental goods,...

At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the UN institutions that deal with sustainable development are to be restructured. This offers an opportunity to implement long overdue reforms. The planned restructuring should follow the objective to improve the...

In June 2012 the international community will meet in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). One of the two main themes will be the »green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication«. To date, however,...

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 20-22, 2012. While the outcome document of the conference responded to most of the demands of the developing and emerging nations gathered in the Group of 77 (G-77), the...

This research empirically estimates abatement costs under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in India, using project-level data for 830 projects that had been registered as of April 2014. Emphasis lies on assessing the impact of international technology transfer on abatement costs and on...