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Climate Change Law : An Introduction
Dernbach, John C.; Kakade, Seema M. - 2015
This article explains the basic elements of climate change law, with a particular focus on those issues that promise to be important for a considerable time as well as the major factors that are driving the development of this law. The emerging law of climate change is being constructed at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222423
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Incentivizing Renewable Energy Deployment : Renewable Portfolio Standards and Feed-In Tariffs
Davies, Lincoln L. - 2013
Two legal instruments for promoting renewable energy production - renewable portfolio standards (“RPSs”) and feed-in tariffs (“FITs”) - are in use across the globe. Many studies pit these policies against each other, treating them as either-or options. Some analyses suggest that FITs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091568
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Eulogizing Renewable Energy Policy
Davies, Lincoln L. - 2018
Across the globe, renewable energy policy is changing. The change is coming so quickly that it appears the world is now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915361
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U.S. Renewable Energy Policy in Context
Davies, Lincoln L. - 2016
This article introduces and overviews U.S. renewable energy policy. It describes the shape, content, and contours of that policy, including its emphases and functions in both the electricity and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy. To do so, the article builds a conceptual model that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002575
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Water Law in the United States and Brazil - Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty
Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015
instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182981
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Energy Efficiency and Conservation : New Legal Tools and Opportunities
Dernbach, John C.; McKinstry, Robert B.; Lowder, Darin - 2015
Many new and ambitious energy efficiency and conservation laws are being enacted at all levels of government - and with greater financial incentives than provided previously. These innovations are intended to overcome or minimize market barriers such as principal-agent problems, information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185707
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Smarter Finance for Cleaner Energy : Open up Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) to Renewable Energy Investment
Mormann, Felix - 2015
This policy proposal makes the case for opening Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — both well-established investment structures — to renewable energy investment. MLPs and, more recently, REITs have a proven track record for promoting oil, gas, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036286
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Sustainable Energy Investments and National Security : Arbitration and Negotiation Issues
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
the European Union and the world at large provide an increasingly important policy agenda for financing sustainable energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002891
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World Trade Organization, Renewable Energy Subsidies and the Case of Feed-In Tariffs : Time for Reform Toward Sustainable Development?
Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2016
Renewable energy subsidies are crucial for combatting climate change, and yet the world’s international legal … infrastructure is not designed to accommodate such subsidies. The world needs a renewable energy sector to develop and implement the … against each other: cultivation of renewable energy and prevention of unfair trade practices. The World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130983
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Intellectual Property and Clean Energy : The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice
Rimmer, Matthew - 2018
intellectual property and climate change in a range of forums – including the climate talks, the World Trade Organization, and the … World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as multilateral institutions dealing with food, health, and biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926480