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Michaels, Patrick - 2008

Temperature records compiled by the International Panel on Climate Change are biased by non-climatic factors that are largely socioeconomic in origin. The result is that as much as 50 percent of the land-surface warming that has been detected in recent decades may not be the product of global...

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Parallel Climate Blocs : Incentives to Cooperation in International Climate Negotiations

Carraro, Carlo; Buchner, Barbara - 2012

cooperation in climate negotiations for the main world countries. A game-theoretic framework is adopted to analyse a country …

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Remaking the World to Save it : Applying U.S. Environmental Laws to Climate Engineering Projects

Hester, Tracy - 2012

Given the high levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and the likelihood of growing emissions in the future, even aggressive limits on greenhouse gas emissions might ultimately fail to prevent dangerous climate disruptions. To prepare for this risk, some scientists have started to...

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Making the States Full Partners in a National Climate Change Effort : A Necessary Element for Sustainable Economic Development

Dernbach, John C.; McKinstry, Robert B.; Peterson, Thomas D. - 2015

This article explains why states and localities need to be full partners in a national climate change effort based on federal legislation or the existing Clean Air Act. A large share of reductions with the lowest cost and the greatest co-benefits (e.g., job creation, technology development,...

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Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements : Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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Achieving Early and Substantial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under a Post-Kyoto Agreement

Dernbach, John C. - 2013

This article explains why policy makers should seriously consider substantial early reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as a part of any post-Kyoto framework, and sets out suggested elements of a framework for early action in a post-Kyoto agreement. Substantial early reductions are needed...

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Water Marketing as an Adaptive Response to the Threat of Climate Change

Adler, Jonathan H. - 2014

Demographic changes and existing water use patterns have placed tremendous pressures upon water supplies, particularly in the West. Global climate change will exacerbate pressures on water resources. The gradual warming of the atmosphere is certain to change the distribution and availability of...

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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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Climate Change Policy

Shogren, Jason F.; Toman, Michael - 2000

Having risen from relative obscurity as few as ten years ago, climate change now looms large among environmental policy issues. Its scope is global; the potential environmental and economic impacts are ubiquitous; the potential restrictions on human choices touch the most basic goals of people...

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C(r)ap and Trade : The Brave New World of Non-Point Source Nutrient Trading and Using Lessons from Greenhouse Gas Markets to Make It Work

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2015

lands) to reduce run-off into the nation’s water bodies. In theory, this is consistent with the regulatory push towards … efficiency and using markets as rational arbiters of pollution control. While this theory has been used on many small scales over … these markets could work in theory at this scale, I do not believe the administrative agencies have addressed problems with …

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