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Can Permanence be Insured? Consideration of some Technical and Practical Issues of Insuring Carbon Credits from Afforestation and Reforestation

Wong-Leung, Jenny P.; Dutschke, Michael - 2003

Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these...

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The Role of Forestry Sinks in the CDM - Analysing the Effects of Policy Decisions on the Carbon Market

Jung, Martina - 2003

The details on rules and modalities for the inclusion of forestry projects in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are one of the last non resolved implementation issues of the Kyoto Protocol. We examine in detail the implications of different policy decisions concerning the inclusion of CDM...

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Gender Discrimination and the International Division of Labour

Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - 2003

The paper empirically explores the international economic effects of gender discrimination, namely the linkages of gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and the extent of gender discrimination across countries and...

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Equal emissions per capita over time: A proposal to combine responsibility and equity of rights

Bode, Sven - 2003

After Future climate policy regimes may be based on the Kyoto-Protocol or on other policy instruments such as carbon-taxes. Any effective regime based on the Protocol requires the determination of the concrete contributions by each Party. This involves namely the time of contribution and the...

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A Proposal for the Attribution of Market Leakage to CDM Projects

Kuosmanen, Timo; Vöhringer, Frank; Dellink, Rob B. - 2004

Economic models suggest that in many cases, market leakage rates of greenhouse gas abatement reach the two-digit percentage range. Consequently, the Marrakesh Accords require Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects to account for leakage. Despite this, most project proponents neglect market...

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Multi-Period Emissions Trading in the Electricity Sector: Winners and Losers

Bode, Sven - 2004

Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior...

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Global Climate Policy and Corresponding Activities on a City-Level

Sippel, Maike - 2004

Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...

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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution

Shams, Rasul - 2004

The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …

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The History of Sinks: An Analysis of Negotiating Positions in the Climate Regime

Jung, Martina - 2004

The issue of terrestrial carbon sinks, officially labelled as Land use, Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) has been one of the most contentious and difficult issues in the international climate change negotiations. This study analyses the negotiation process on sinks from the third Conference...

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

Bode, Sven; Jung, Martina - 2004

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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