"After the failure of the Copenhagen conference, climate finance has become the buzzword of international climate negotiations. A "fast-track" volume of 30 billion $ has been promised by industrialised countries for emissions mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries. A...

1. The Clean Development Mechanism gold rush / Axel Michaelowa and Jorund Buen -- 2. Development cooperation and climate change : political-economic determinants of adaptation aid / Katharina Michaelowa and Axel Michaelowa -- 3. How Brazil and China have financed industry development and energy...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The contribution of local, regional and national approaches to climate-resilient development, or what good practices can be disseminated or mainstreamed? -- pt. 3. Climate-resilient development, innovation, and best practice: how to reform and bypass inefficiencies...

Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...

We study an international climate agreement that assigns emission quotas to each participating country. Unlike the simplest models in the literature, we assume that abatement costs are affected by R&D activities undertaken in all firms in all countries, i.e. abatement technologies are...