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This paper explores the likely impact of emissions trading design on transaction costs. Transaction costs include both the costs for the private sector to comply with the scheme rules and the costs of scheme administration. In economic theory transaction costs are often assumed to be zero. But...
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The social and environmental implications of plantations in the CDM are analysed under a hypothetical laissez faire approach and a proactive approach to Sustainable Development (SD), bounded by existing COP7 agreements and efficiency and equity considerations. Implications for timber rich,...
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was originally seen as an instrument with a bilateral character where an entity from an industrialised country invests in a project in a developing country (DC). Also, multilateral funds were envisaged that would bundle investments to spread project risks....
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was originally seen as an instrument with a bilateral character where an entity from an industrialised country invests in a project in a developing country (DC). Also, multilateral funds were envisaged that would bundle investments to spread project risks....
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International climate protection investments (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects) are burdened with problems of contract enforcement, which prevent the realisation of efficiency gains associated with these investments. The paper analyses this problem from the...
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Im Dezember 2008 stehen wichtige Schritte der internationalen Klimapolitik bevor, die einerseits die Gestaltung der Klimaschutzmaßnahmen in Europa und andererseits ein Folgeabkommen des Kyoto-Protokolls nach 2012 betreffen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Stand der...
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Anfang Dezember, bei dem Weltklimagipfel in Kopenhagen, wird das Startsignal zu einer wichtigen Verhandlungsrunde im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel gegeben. Doch die Chancen, in Kopenhagen ein neues Klimaprotokoll und somit einen erfolgreichen Ausgang zu erzielen, sind in den vergangenen Monaten...
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