Climate negotiations have been going on for the last two decades and the awareness for impacts of climate change has improved substantially. However, the trends of global CO2 emissions did not reveal any encouraging signs, with developing countries emitting even more CO2 and industrialized...

As the severity of climate change is increasingly recognized throughout the world, the international community has announced plans to achieve carbon neutrality and has introduced policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The Korean government is also devising concrete measures to achieve carbon...

Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in carbon-sink projects may be constrained by high costs. This problem may be particularly severe for projects involving smallholders in developing countries....

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of reaching net-zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050. Unlocking the potential of natural climate solutions in the strive for net-zero emissions is increasingly gaining attention. A large potential may arise from the...

In September 2011, the General Office of China's National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on the Pilot Project of Carbon Emissions Trading. Over the past decade, the carbon emission trading system (ETS) has gradually developed in China. Based on a quasi-natural experiment of...

The proposal put forth in this paper is called Effective capital. The objective is to scale resources brought to bear on the SDG’s as efficiently as possible by focusing on outcomes that are normalized across projects and efforts. This allows individual actors and small projects to escape the...

The green transition requires a substantive shift in financial flows that will not occur without policy interventions. We map out and critically assess the dominant, ‘risk-based’ approach which relies on changing the relative prices of green /dirty assets. Since it outsources the pace and...

As Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a new technology, there had been no legal framework regulating CCS projects or addressing its potential risks on either an international or a European or national level. Accordingly, significant changes at all governance levels have taken place within the...

The looming climate crisis calls for the development of novel forms of response, but so far, climate change action does not meet its ambitions to tackle the issue. Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) are one proposed solution to bridge the gap. However, VCMs are criticized for not providing real...

This paper investigates farmers’ incentives to participate voluntarily in carbon offset markets when environmental credit stacking is allowed, that is, farmers can stack water quality credits with carbon credits. The implications of stacking on additionality of environmental services in...