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Diminishing emission budgets and increasing risks of catastrophic damages from climate change require analyses of rapid response options including geoengineering options such as ocean iron fertilization (OIF). To decide whether or not OIF might be such an option an assessment of its potential as...
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-permanent. Specific modalities related to non-permanence will need to be developed in order to include afforestation and reforestation … how to address non-permanence have been proposed, these being temporary credits and insurance of emission reduction … credits. This paper discusses the practicality and potential difficulties of the insurance approach for addressing non-permanence …
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The Milan conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has established two types of emission offsets under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), valid for afforestation and reforestation activities. In order to account for the non-permanent nature of carbon storage in forests,...
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to lead to future releases of the CO2 stored. This „non-permanence“ must be considered if an environmentally sound policy … climate regime. It is based on existing rules and modalities regarding non-permanence of sequestration in the Land use, Land …
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, permanence in forest carbon sinks in a context of uncertain opportunity costs and incomplete contract enforcement. The optimal … permanence is to be ensured. That is, as the carbon price increases, the payment could be raised and vice versa. …
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The Yasuni National Park is a protected area located in the Amazon region of Ecuador and is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. This Initiative proposed a...
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Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
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In these times of crises, capitalism and the far-reaching marketization of our societies has again become a subject of contestation and critique. Alternative organizing is one response to the critique of capitalism. As an embodied and constructive form of critique it takes place in prefigurative...
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"Closing borders is naive, the virus will come regardless" - this was the policy assumption that was repeatedly stated until mid-March by the WHO, the EU, as well as responsible authorities in Germany and other countries. Meanwhile, other states had started closing their borders to travellers...
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macroanalytical innovation and diffusion research. A research gap is identified in innovation theory with regard to the …
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