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efficiency regulation has delivered preliminary economic and environmental benefits. Lessons can be learnt from the European and …
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This paper aims to launch a debate as whether and how provisions with regard to the responsibility of present polluters for future damage should be considered within the applicable regulations. The examination focuses on the European legal framework for climate protection, and gives some...
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discourage, action in other countries?This Article answers this question by describing three ways that unilateral regulation … a way that increases those countries’ incentive to regulate. Second, unilateral regulation can support incentives to … regulate elsewhere by limiting the incentive for polluters to move, or “leak,” to countries with weaker regulation. Third …
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This book chapter addresses the use of traditional regulation to ameliorate climate disruption, revealing that … traditional regulation has played a significant role. It defines traditional regulation as encompassing performance standards …, work practice standards, and phase-outs of dangerous substances. It then shows that traditional regulation has encouraged …
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International shipping accounts for approximately 2-3% percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Under business as usual conditions, emissions from the sector are expected to double by 2050. The quantity of GHG emissions from shipping combined with the potential for...
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United States, are crucial to climate and forest negotiations since they account for 54 percent of the world’s total forest …
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Federal banking regulators are grappling with how to confront the threats posed by climate change. There are increasingly loud calls for regulators to adjust the “risk-weights” used to calculate banks’ minimum capital requirements based on how exposed their counterparties are to...
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climate change are proliferating around the world, including in Australia. Regulatory drivers include corporate law … transparency and process, the associated private climate regulation is increasingly organised around substantive Paris … regulation is helping to drive robust corporate climate commitments, target-setting and associated activities, which have the …
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