markets have become an important new source of financing for mitigation projects and programmes. Yet to date, the … participation of urban authorities and of urban mitigation projects in the global carbon market remains extremely limited. The under …-representation of urban carbon projects can be linked both to the difficulties to implement urban mitigation projects and to the …

achieved at least cost. Reducing the costs of compliance, they argued, would make tighter environmental targets possible, and …

increase in energy taxes in conjunction with a revenue-neutral cut in non-wage labor costs. This policy is supposed to yield a … constraints on the German economy. JI significantly lowers the level of carbon taxes and thus reduces the total costs of abatement …