This paper aims to examine the potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to address energy-related issues during the rural transition process in China, using a case study of quickly urbanizing and industrializing Yinzhou district in coastal Zhejiang province. Yinzhou's per capita GDP...

This paper aims to examine the potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to address energy- related issues during the rural transition process in China, using a case study of quickly urbanizing and industrializing Yinzhou district in coastal Zhejiang province. Yinzhou's per capita GDP...

This paper aims to examine the potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to address energy- related issues during the rural transition process in China, using a case study of quickly urbanizing and industrializing Yinzhou district in coastal Zhejiang province. Yinzhou?s per capita GDP...

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has seen a spectacular rise of activity since mid-2005 that has led to more than 400 project submissions with a combined estimated emission reduction volume of 570 million t CO2 eq. until the end of the commitment period. Several technologies have been...

Klimapolitik ist aufgrund der Vielfalt der direkt betroffenen Akteursgruppen, ihrer globalen Reichweite und ihres extrem langen Zeithorizonts besonders anfällig für Verzerrungen durch Interessengruppen. Daher ist die Theorie der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie gut geeignet, die klimapolitische...

Frankreich befand sich lange Zeit in einem klimapolitischen "Teufelskreis, in dem sich mangelnde Information und mangelndes Interesse gegenseitig verschärften" (Brodhag 1997). Dazu trug die enge Verquickung zwischen Bürokratie und wirtschaftlichen Interessengruppen sowie die zentralistische...