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Does Global Climate Policy Promote Low-Carbon Cities? Lessons Learnt from the CDM

Sippel, Maike; Michaelowa, Axel - 2014

An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....

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On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the International Climate Regime

Bode, Sven; Jung, Martina - 2014

As GHG emissions did not decline as anticipated early of the 1990ties Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) recently gained more and more attention as a climate change mitigation option. However, CO2 suppressed in geological reservoirs is likely to lead to future releases of the CO2 stored. This...

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Carbon Matching Commitments

Coleman, James W. - 2022

With the United States’ reentry to the Paris Agreement, there is now consensus among the world's largest carbon emitters that emissions must be reduced. But there is still a radical lack of consensus on what regulations should be chosen to reduce carbon. Worse, there is also a radical...

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The Liability Rules Under International GHG Emissions Trading

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2002

buyer beware liability could be an effective deterrent to non-compliance, but the costs of imposing it are expected to be …

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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol

Driesen, David M. - 2014

spillovers yields fresh insights. Market liberalism's ideal of comprehensive evaluation of costs and benefits conflicts with its …

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What Has Kyoto Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradeable Permit Markets

Hahn, Robert W.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2003

of international greenhouse gas trading mechanisms. Virtually all design studies and many projections of the costs of … meeting the Kyoto targets have assumed that an international trading program can be established that minimizes the costs of … domestic vehicle. It is true that costs can be minimized if all countries use domestic tradeable permit systems to meet their …

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A Meaningful U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change

Stavins, Robert N. - 2013

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...

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Climate Change Law : An Introduction

Dernbach, John C.; Kakade, Seema M. - 2015

This article explains the basic elements of climate change law, with a particular focus on those issues that promise to be important for a considerable time as well as the major factors that are driving the development of this law. The emerging law of climate change is being constructed at the...

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Renewable Energy under the Kyoto Protocol : The Case for Mixing Instruments

Driesen, David M. - 2014

This paper suggests that a mixture of measures may be needed to encourage renewable energy under the Kyoto Protocol. It explains that the goal of maximizing short term cost effectiveness tends to conflict with the goal of encouraging the long-term technological development that the world will...

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A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change

Stavins, Robert N. - 2013

The need for a domestic U.S. policy that seriously addresses climate change is increasingly apparent. A cap-and-trade system is the best approach in the short to medium term. Besides providing certainty about emissions levels, cap-and-trade offers an easy means of compensating for the inevitably...

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