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Designing Contracts for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2010
Reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has been identified as a cost effective … any fixed ex ante payment. Self-enforcement is more difficult to sustain the higher the cost of forest conservation is …
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The costs of stopping deforestation in PNG and Indonesia
Hunt, Colin - 2010
Protocol does not include mechanisms for forest conservation. Nevertheless, deforestation and forest degradation has now taken …) - a heavily-forested tropical country - by the reduction in deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and the …Even though deforestation in tropical developing countries releases large quantities of greenhouse gases, the Kyoto …
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GHG Mitigation Potential, Costs and Benefits in Global Forests: ADynamic Partial Equilibrium Approach
Sathaye, Jayant; Makundi, Willy; Dale, Larry; Chan, Peter; … - 2008
-and short-rotation forestry, and the reduction of deforestation -- wereanalyzed using a global dynamic partial equilibrium model …This paper reports on the global potential for carbonsequestration in forest plantations, and the reduction of … carbonemissions from deforestation, in response to six carbon price scenariosfrom 2000 to 2100. These carbon price scenarios cover a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437190
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437412
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Workshop "Effort sharing under the Climate Package - Assessing the role of the Clean Development Mechanism" Brussels, 3 June 2008 ; Consolidated texts
Best, Aaron - 2008
On 3 June 2008, the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament hosted a half-day workshop entitled: "Effort sharing under the Climate Package - assessing the role of the Clean Development Mechanism". [...] The workshop explored the role of CDM under the...
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"Sustainable Biofuel Production in Tropical and Subtropical Countries"; 12 June 2008 - Workshop proceedings
Kaphengst, Timo; Schlegel, Stephanie - 2008
In January 2008 the European Commission (EC) presented an integrated Climate and Energy package to cut emissions for the 21st Century, including proposals for specific targets on renewable energy (20% by 2020) and greenhouse gas emissions reduction (20% by 2020). The package, amongst others,...
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Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee – Inquiry Into the Effects of Climate Change on Training and Employment Needs
Hampson, Keith D.; Furneaux, Craig W.; Scuderi, Peter - 2008
universities and other research and training institutions to meet current and future demand for climate change professionals; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438330
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Managing catastrophic risk by alternative risk transfer instruments
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438957
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439051
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Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems
Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010
Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441812