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Links between European Emissions Trading and CDM Credits for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects
Driesen, David M. - 2014
This paper asks whether the European Union's (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme has encouraged investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in developing countries. So far, it has produced very little investment in either in spite of the EU's decision to allow credits for projects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059682
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Constitutional Challenges and Regulatory Opportunities for State Climate Policy Innovation
Mormann, Felix - 2018
This Article explores constitutional limits and regulatory openings for innovative state policies to mitigate climate change by promoting climate-friendly, renewable energy. In the absence of a comprehensive federal policy approach to climate change and clean energy, more and more states are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934512
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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation
Chen, James Ming - 2014
regulation. The solution is as transparent as it is simple. Environmental protection must be decoupled from agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055790
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Tradable Pollution Permits and the Regulatory Game
Johnston, Jason Scott - 2014
that is actually observed. This paper models CAC environmental regulation as a bargaining game over pollution entitlements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059744
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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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Energy Efficiency in the United States
Monroe, Albert - 2014
state utility regulation either requires or incentivizes energy efficiency programs. There are significant differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144295
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Federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Laws
Dernbach, John C.; Tyrrell, Marianne - 2015
This paper provides an overview of U.S. law and policy concerning energy efficiency and conservation. The United States appears torn between two narratives - one expressing the abundant demonstrated opportunities provided by energy savings and the other based on a fear of deprivation from using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190789
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Climate Regulation of the Electricity Industry : A Comparative View from Australia, Great Britain, South Korea, and the United States
Davies, Lincoln L. - 2017
Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law … from the electricity sector. It does so through detailed, comparative accounts of climate regulation of electricity in four … analysis section identifies key lessons learned to date about climate regulation of electricity globally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955867
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Public and Private Regulations for the Governance of the Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrates
Partain, Roy Andrew - 2016
offshore methane hydrates. Prior to the discussions on public and private regulation, the study provides an introduction to … advantages of public regulation to govern the risks of accidents are presented. Third, a discussion reviews the potential … interactions of public regulation and private rules of civil liability. Fourth, the potential for private parties to advance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006188
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The Efficient Liability Sharing Factor for Environmental Disasters : Lessons for Optimal Insurance Regulation
Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - 2008
Using a structural model of the interactions between governments, firms and insurance companies, we characterise the distortions in environmental liability sharing between firms and insurance companies that the imperfect implementation of government policies implies. These distortions stem from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217819