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Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Policy Benefits in U.S. Regulatory Analyses : Domestic versus Global Approaches
Gayer, Ted - 2016
Although benefit assessment principles are well established for specific populations, very little attention has been paid to how to define the scope of the pertinent population for such assessments. Whose social welfare matters and whose benefits should be included in the assessment? In the case...
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The 'Stern Review' and its Critics : Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Cole, Daniel H. - 2008
The UK's Treasury's "Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change" (Oct. 2006) reached dramatically different conclusions and policy recommendations than most earlier economic analyses of climate change. It found that the costs of climate change, as well as the potential net benefits of...
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The 'Stern Review' and its Critics : Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Cole, Daniel H. - 2008
The UK's Treasury's "Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change" (Oct. 2006) reached dramatically different conclusions and policy recommendations than most earlier economic analyses of climate change. It found that the costs of climate change, as well as the potential net benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223464
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Study of International Regulatory Co-operation (IRC) arrangements for air quality : the cases of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, the Canada-United States...
Kauffmann, Céline; Saffirio, Camila - 2020
China, Japan and Korea have deployed a multiplicity of co-operation efforts at different levels of government to promote air quality and curb transboundary pollution. This paper identifies the existing arrangements for air quality co-operation in North East Asia and provides guidance to advance...
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The Importance of Being Factual : The U.S., China, and the Future of the Kyoto Protocol
Anand, Aarthi - 2014
By most accounts, the December 2012 Doha Round negotiations achieved little. The continued failure of member governments to reach consensus increases the risk of a catastrophic rise in global emissions. The current impasse is due in no small measure to the expressed concern of the United States...
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The Case for U.S. Ratification of the Basel Convention on Hazardous Waste
Yang, Tseming - 2018
Over the past two decades, the failure of the United States to ratify a string of global multilateral environmental agreements has become a significant source of frustration for environmentalists and diplomats. Delay has been uniquely serious, however, with respect to the 1989 Basel Convention...
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Intellectual Property Provisions of Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements in Light of U.S. Federal Law
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2011
During the past several years, the United States has concluded a substantial number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements (hereinafter “FTAs”), largely with developing countries. Each of those FTAs includes substantial commitments in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs)...
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Remaking the World to Save it : Applying U.S. Environmental Laws to Climate Engineering Projects
Hester, Tracy - 2012
Given the high levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and the likelihood of growing emissions in the future, even aggressive limits on greenhouse gas emissions might ultimately fail to prevent dangerous climate disruptions. To prepare for this risk, some scientists have started to...
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U.S. Environmental Law in Global Perspective : Five Do's and Five Don'ts from Our Experience
Elliott, E. Donald - 2020
Lessons learned from U.S. environmental law. Five best and five worst things in U.S. environmental law. "Third-mover advantage" by which legal systems may be do better by adopting legal devices after studying experience elsewhere. "Virtual regulation" by which incentives from regulatory system...
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Compensation for Natural Resource Damages from Oil Spills : A Comparison of USA Law and International Conventions
Jones, Carol Adaire - 2013
The basic measure of natural resource damages in USA environmental liability statutes is the cost of restoring the … of the resources. Recent developments, however, suggest international and USA laws are on paths toward convergence. In … the 1996 regulations implementing the natural resource liability provisions of the USA Oil Pollution Act [OPA], natural …
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