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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming

Hunt, Colin - 2009

"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...

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Game theory and international environmental cooperation : essential readings

Caparrós, A. (contributor); Finus, Michael (contributor) - 2015

Key environmental issues, such as biodiversity and climate change, have in recent years become more pressing than ever. Where the critical papers in the early 1990s explained the difficulties of cooperation in tackling transboundary environmental problems, later works have analyzed the various...

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Price relationships in the EU emissions trading system

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2010

developing countries, funding emissions cuts there instead, under a Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This … Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) delivers credits that may be used by European companies for their compliance needs …. Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) from CDM projects are credits flowing into the global compliance market generated through …

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Corporate strategies and the clean development mechanism : developing country financing for developed country commitments?

Lütken, Søren Ender; Michaelowa, Axel - 2008

This book assesses the structure of projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It … book arrives at three fundamental, interconnected, conclusions: CDM is logically a unilaterally driven investment activity …; CDM investment is an irrelevant compliance instrument for companies from industrialised countries and that this state of …

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Innovation in environmental policy : economic and legal aspects of recent developments in environmental enforcement and liability

Tietenberg, Thomas H. (ed.) - 1992

environmental policy - liability law and enforcement - which are experiencing dramatic change. It shows how economic analysis can … provide useful and meaningful insights about subjects such as criminal penalties, private enforcement, liability for oil … spills, tort remedies, and lender liability which have hitherto only been considered by lawyers. Drawing on the latest …

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The Elgar companion to the Asian development bank

Quibria, Muhammad G. (ed.); Akanda, Albab (ed.) - 2024

"Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB's objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas for reform, and challenges going forward. M.G. Quibria...

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Building world narratives for climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability analyses

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Valentin, Przyluski; … - HAL - 2011

The impacts of climate change on human systems depend not only on the level of emissions but also on how inherently vulnerable these systems are to the changing climate. The large uncertainties over future development and structure of societies and economies mean that the assessment of climate...

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ECONOMIC EXPERTISE AND DECISION-MAKING IN CONTROVERSIAL UNIVERSES

Godard, Olivier - HAL - 1996

There are two questions to be considered: a) to which extent the type of framing which may be appropriate for scientific explorations of some issues can also be relevant in a decisionmaking context, in which achieving an agreement among stakeholders is the key problem? b) what is the practical...

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Geoengineering as an alternative to mitigation: specification and dynamic implications

Sterck, Olivier - HAL - 2011

Geoengineering, i.e. the use of artificial techniques aiming at cooling the planet, is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to emission mitigation. Several methods are promising for their capacity to quickly halt global warming at a moderate cost. Such cheap technologies might be...

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Envisioning innovative groundwater regulation policies through scenario workshops in France and Portugal

Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Montginoul, Marielle; Varanda, Marta - HAL - 2012

Groundwater management policies will need to be revised in many Mediterranean countries, in light of the impact of climate change and the increasing demand for water. In this paper, we analyze stakeholder perceptions of three groundwater policy scenarios which respectively assume a strengthening...

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