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The climate-trade nexus gains increasing attention as governments are taking great efforts to forge a post-2012 climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This raises the issues of the scope of trade-related measures and of when and how they could be used. This paper discusses how far...
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The draft negotiating text on long-term co-operative action under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/8; the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 HR 2410 (United States); the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 HR 2454...
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Climate change has turned out to be a major issue. The Clean Development Mechanism is the tool provided by the Kyoto protocol to address emission reduction and to promote sustainable development in developing countries. The challenge to an alternative development path, arising by increasing...
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Cooperation in international environmental agreements appears difficult to attain because of strong free riding incentives. This paper explores how different technology spillover mechanisms among regions can influence the incentive structures to join and stabilize an international agreement. We...
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This review “diagnoses” climate change as an international governance challenge and explores the political feasibility of alternative “cures.” Human activities’ growing effect on Earth’s climate system is extremely challenging, characterized by, inter alia, very long time lags...
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Comprehensive global cooperation is essential to limit global temperature increases while continuing economic development, e.g., reducing severe inequality or achieving long-term economic growth. Achieving long-term cooperation on climate change mitigation with n strategic agents poses a complex...
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Current international negotiations to address climate change are marked by growing divergence between government … chemicals associated with human activity. But the Conference’s inability to satisfactorily address the reality that the world … decision, raises significant doubt about the efficacy and equity of the treaty. Attempts at the recent World Summit on …
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Carbon Trading is one of the key issues which is increasingly becoming hot topic of debate around the globe with the ever increasing problem of global warming. The genesis of carbon trading lies in the Kyoto Protocol. The present paper seeks to shed some light on the conceptual idea of carbon...
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Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the policy instrument of choice in the industrialized world to …
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around the world. In order to measure climate change policy, we introduce a new index, the ‘Climate Laws, Institutions and …. CLIMI covers all the relevant institutions and sector-specific policies in 95 countries, representing 90% of the world’s GHG …
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