As the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has shown its rapidly growing market and we approach the beginning of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, an increasing number of non-Annex-B countries have recently established their Designated National Authorities (DNAs) to participate in...

We analyze the interaction of climate and development policy that has taken place since the early 1990s. Increasing dissatisfaction about the results of traditional development cooperation and the appeal of climate policy as a new policy field led to a rapid reorientation of aid flows. At the...

The implementation of activities aimed to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions is more cost-efficient in developing countries than in most of the industrialized world. A Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is to assure that the interests of all parties implicated in Joint Implementation...