The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is expected to help Annex I countries achieve their binding commitment through a cost-effective way and to promote sustainable development in non Annex I countries including China, which has been the largest host country in the CDM market. This paper aims at...

In this paper, two methods are proposed to assess the efficiency of carbon capture and storage (CCS) involving back-leakage of CO2 from geological storage reservoirs to the atmosphere. The first method is a physical approach based on radiative forcing. It leads to a criterion that assesses...