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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries

Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008

This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...

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''When Cost Measures Contradict''

Montgomery, W. D.; Smith, A. E.; Biggar, S. L.; … - 2009

When regulators put forward new economic or regulatory policies, there is a need to compare the costs and benefits of these new policies to existing policies and other alternatives to determine which policy is most cost-effective. For command and control policies, it is quite difficult to...

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''Measuring the Costs of Climate Change Policies''

Montgomery, W. D.; Smith, A. E.; Biggar, S. L.; … - 2009

Studies of the costs of climate change policies have utilized a variety of measures or metrics for summarizing costs. The leading economic models have utilized GNP, GDP, the ''area under a marginal cost curve,'' the discounted present value of consumption, and a welfare measure taken directly...

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Service Contract : EC - DG Environment − CNRS-IEPE: Options for the Operationalisation of the Kyoto Mechanisms - Economic Analysis based on Partial Equilibrium Models

Criqui, Patrick; Kitous, Alban - Institut d'Économie et de Politique de l'Énergie - 2001

This report presents two series of studies performed before COP-6 and COP-6bis, in order to provide DG Environment with economic analysis of the issues at stake in international climate negotiations. These analysis used the background information provided by the large scale world energy partial...

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The Clean Development Mechanism and Least Developed Countries: Key Determinants for Enhancing Climate Change Mitigative Capacity with Case Study Analysis of Niger.

Winkelman, Andrew Gene - 2011

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol offers developing countries the opportunity to participate in the effort to reduce global greenhouse gas levels while also benefitting from sustainable development opportunities. To date, the majority of CDM investments have gone to...

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The McKibbin-Wilcoxen proposal for global greenhouse abatement

McKibbin, Warwick J - 1998

[Conclusion]: The Kyoto Protocol complicates the process of achieving a realistic approach to greenhouse gas abatement. It has created a great deal of uncertainty about how and whether countries are going to achieve the strict quantity targets that have been set by 2008 to 2012. The...

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Designing a realistic climate change policy that includes developing countries

McKibbin, Warwick J; Wilcoxen, Peter J - 2000

In earlier papers we have argued that the Kyoto Protocol is not sustainable as a global climate change policy and have proposed an alternative policy regime based on a coordinated but decentralized system of national permit trading systems with a fixed internationally negotiated price for...

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy N. - 2000

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...

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Parameter estimation of structural dynamic models using eigenvalue and eigenvector information

Allen, J.J.; Martinez, D.R. - 2008

Structural system identification methods are analytical techniques for reconciling test data with analytical models. The response data frequently used to compare a finite element model and test data are the eigenvalues of the system. However, eigenvalues alone cannot assure an adequate model....

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Convergence of construction costs in the single European market

Langston, Craig; Best, Rick - 2009

Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for … either country group. This is shown to be in contrast with convergence that is evident in the prices of other product groups …

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