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change has been negligible to date, but the potential to contribute to mitigation climate change at the regional level is …
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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of … disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these …
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for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic …. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …
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Regulators often seek to promote the use of improved, cleaner technology when new investments occur; however, technology mandates are suspected of raising costs and delaying investment. We examine investment choices for electricity generation under a strict emissions rate performance standard...
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On efficiency grounds, the economics community has to date tended to emphasize price-based policies to address climate change -- such as taxes or a “safety-valve” price ceiling for cap-and-trade -— while environmental advocates have sought a more clear quantitative limit on emissions. This...
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In 2005, the European Union introduced the largest and most ambitious emissions trading program in the world to meet its Kyoto commitments for the containment of global climate change. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has some distinctive features that differentiate it from the more...
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Current and proposed greenhouse gas cap-and-trade systems allow regulated entities to offset abatement requirements by paying unregulated entities to abate. These offsets from unregulated entities are believed to contain system costs and stabilize allowance prices. However, the supply of offsets...
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Climate change policy analysis has focused almost exclusively on national policy and even on harmonizing climate policies across countries, implicitly assuming that harmonization of climate policies at the subnational level would be mandated or guaranteed. We argue that the design and...
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Carbon markets are substantial and they are expanding. There are many lessons from experiences over the past eight years -- fewer free allowances, better management of market-sensitive information, and a recognition that trading systems require adjustments that have consequences for market...
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