From Rio to Rio: A global carbon price signal to escape the great climate inconsistency Two decades after the 1992 Rio Conference,we must admit to collective failure in combating human induced climate change. We cannot escape serious climate disruption if we keep going down that road. We must...

Le Mécanisme pour un Développement Propre (MDP) affiche un double objectif, qui devrait s'articuler pour favoriser la pérennité du régime climatique de Kyoto. D'une part, il vise à flexibiliser les engagements contraignants de réduction des émissions des pays de l'Annexe I et d'autre...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits are environmentally equivalent to domestic emission...

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is expected to stimulate the North-South transfer of climate-friendly technologies. This paper provides an assessment of the technology transfers that take place through the CDM using a unique data set of 644 registered projects. It provides a detailed...