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Additionality and Sustainable Development Issues Regarding CDM Projects in Energy Efficiency Sector
Michaelowa, Axel; Umamaheswaran, K. - 2006
The objective of this discussion paper is to assess additionality and sustainable development issues of energy … projects has been submitted for validation and 54 of those projects were analysed with regards to additionality and sustainable … start date. 60% are large scale projects and 90% had started before 2005. The results show that additionality and …
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What is the Optimal Offsets Discount under a Second-Best Cap & Trade Policy?
Klemick, Heather - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2012
Despite concerns about additionality, leakage, permanence, and verification, carbon offsets have been proposed as a …
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Designing efficient markets for carbon offsets with distributional constraints
Bento, Antonio M.; Kanbur, Ravi; Leard, Benjamin - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 70 (2015) C, pp. 51-71
This paper presents an assessment of the relative efficacy of three key instruments – baselines, trade ratios and limits - which are under policy discussion in the design of carbon offset programs. We rank the instruments by their implications for total emissions, economic efficiency, and...
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Environmental Co-benefits and Stacking in Environmental Markets
Lankoski, Jussi; Ollikainen, Markku; Marshall, Elizabeth; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2015
stacking on additionality of environmental services in interlinked markets, market participation rates, and market equilibrium …, and that such increased participation provides additionality in environmental service provision. It is further shown that …
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US Status on Climate Change Mitigation
Burtraw, Dallas; Woerman, Matt - 2012
In 2009, President Obama pledged that, by 2020, the United States would achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of 17 percent from 2005 levels. With the failure of Congress to adopt comprehensive climate legislation in 2010, the feasibility of the pledge was put in doubt. However, we find...
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Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions
Kerr, Suzi; Millard-Ball, Adam - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
Without effective developing country participation in climate mitigation it will be impossible to meet global concentration and climate change targets. However, developing countries are unwilling and, in many cases, unable to bear the mitigation cost alone. They need huge transfers of resources...
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The Role of Transaction Costs and Risk Premia in the Determination of Climate Change Policy Responses
Stronzik, Marcus; Hunt, Alistair; Eckermann, Frauke; … - 2003
Transaction costs and risk have generally not been taken into account in assessing the Kyoto mechanisms JI, CDM and emissions trading. However, they can have a significant influence. With regard to the project-based mechanisms, the factor that most determines the influence of transaction costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297308
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The Role of Transaction Costs and Risk Premia in the Determination of Climate Change Policy Responses
Stronzik, Marcus; Hunt, Alistair; Eckermann, Frauke; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Transaction costs and risk have generally not been taken into account in assessing the Kyoto mechanisms JI, CDM and emissions trading. However, they can have a significant influence. With regard to the project-based mechanisms, the factor that most determines the influence of transaction costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097904
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US agricultural and forest carbon sequestration over time: An economic exploraration
Lee, Heng-Chi; McCarl, Bruce A. - 2004
Global average temperature rose 1°F in the last 100 years allegedly due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. In reaction, global society is moving toward coordinated action to reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions in an effect to avoid possible future adverse...
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The dynamic competitiveness of US agricultural and forest carbon sequestration
Lee, Heng-Chi; McCarl, Bruce A. - 2003
Global society is moving towards action to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This can be expensive and socially disruptive in countries like the United States where the vast majority of emissions arise from electrical energy generation and petroleum usage. Agricultural and forest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291992