Beyond Kyoto: A tax-based system for the global reduction of
... better abatement technology (represented by a downward shift of the marginal abatement cost function from MAC1 to MAC2) is equal to the area of trapezoid CBE 1E 2, or the difference between the two marginal abatement cost functions for the amount of pollution they are abating (E 1–E 3). Note that if ...
... better abatement technology (represented by a downward shift of the marginal abatement cost function from MAC1 to MAC2) is equal to the area of trapezoid CBE 1E 2, or the difference between the two marginal abatement cost functions for the amount of pollution they are abating (E 1–E 3). Note that if ...
Constructing Carbon Market Spacetime: Climate change and the
... considerable infrastructure. The primary source of reductions which can offset carbon emissions from regulated facilities is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). CDM carbon projects must demonstrate that the planned offsets are financially and environmental additional, that they would not occur wi ...
... considerable infrastructure. The primary source of reductions which can offset carbon emissions from regulated facilities is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). CDM carbon projects must demonstrate that the planned offsets are financially and environmental additional, that they would not occur wi ...
Carbon impact - Electricity North West
... Capacity to Customers (C2C) is one of the projects supported by the OfGEM Low Carbon Networks Fund to explore new ways of delivering a secure and affordable low carbon electricity system. Extending the use of electricity in our energy system, to heating and transport for instance, is judged to be an ...
... Capacity to Customers (C2C) is one of the projects supported by the OfGEM Low Carbon Networks Fund to explore new ways of delivering a secure and affordable low carbon electricity system. Extending the use of electricity in our energy system, to heating and transport for instance, is judged to be an ...
Avoiding Extinction
... The world is aware of the connection that scientists postulate between climate change and the use of fossil energy. The largest segment of carbon emissions, 40-45% of all global emissions of CO2, originate in the world’s power plant infrastructure, 87% of which are fossil fuel plants that produce th ...
... The world is aware of the connection that scientists postulate between climate change and the use of fossil energy. The largest segment of carbon emissions, 40-45% of all global emissions of CO2, originate in the world’s power plant infrastructure, 87% of which are fossil fuel plants that produce th ...
Introduction - Carbon Mitigation Initiative
... December 1999 – June 2000. BP runs an internal, U.S.-based competition for a research initiative in carbon mitigation. October 2000. BP and Ford Motor Company jointly announce the formation of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) at Princeton University to develop new approaches to carbon manageme ...
... December 1999 – June 2000. BP runs an internal, U.S.-based competition for a research initiative in carbon mitigation. October 2000. BP and Ford Motor Company jointly announce the formation of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) at Princeton University to develop new approaches to carbon manageme ...
The Path to Carbon Neutrality – CEIBS
... third world countries, where this can be done to much lower costs than at home. The Kyoto Protocol approves this compensation abroad for two reasons: transfer of technology from industrialized to developing countries and foreign investments in the developing world. But many critics say, this procedu ...
... third world countries, where this can be done to much lower costs than at home. The Kyoto Protocol approves this compensation abroad for two reasons: transfer of technology from industrialized to developing countries and foreign investments in the developing world. But many critics say, this procedu ...
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... that can be reached by optimal management in agricultural production. Farmers may do better if they turn out to be more active when a program is established and the production cost impact becomes a reality. Third, since this study was focused on the short-term impact, there were no long-term market ...
... that can be reached by optimal management in agricultural production. Farmers may do better if they turn out to be more active when a program is established and the production cost impact becomes a reality. Third, since this study was focused on the short-term impact, there were no long-term market ...
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... policy. Afforestation and land use are accounted for by introducing their effects in the model. This is done by relying on carbon sequestration curves provided by Sohngen (2005), which describe the average annual cost of sequestration for selected world regions. Results show that afforestation and t ...
... policy. Afforestation and land use are accounted for by introducing their effects in the model. This is done by relying on carbon sequestration curves provided by Sohngen (2005), which describe the average annual cost of sequestration for selected world regions. Results show that afforestation and t ...
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... inter-temporal optimal growth model in which the energy input of the aggregate production function has been expanded to give a bottom-up type of description of the energy sector. Countries are grouped in 12 regions that cover the world and that strategically interact following a game theoretic stru ...
... inter-temporal optimal growth model in which the energy input of the aggregate production function has been expanded to give a bottom-up type of description of the energy sector. Countries are grouped in 12 regions that cover the world and that strategically interact following a game theoretic stru ...
Carbon Offset Emission Memo - Alberta Environment and Parks
... Subject: Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) has published Version 1.0 of the Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook (the Handbook). The Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook contains a listing of common emission factors used in ...
... Subject: Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) has published Version 1.0 of the Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook (the Handbook). The Carbon Offset Emission Factors Handbook contains a listing of common emission factors used in ...
Increased Logging is a Threat to Our Global Climate
... tons (even after accounting for decades of forest regrowth on logged sites). Some of that carbon was converted into wood products, but most wood products do not last very long, so, of 149 million tons of carbon missing from the forest, only 11 million tons of that carbon remains stored in wood prod ...
... tons (even after accounting for decades of forest regrowth on logged sites). Some of that carbon was converted into wood products, but most wood products do not last very long, so, of 149 million tons of carbon missing from the forest, only 11 million tons of that carbon remains stored in wood prod ...
Policy Instruments and Achievement of Global Greenhouse Gas
... At this juncture in time, an international consensus on a global climate change treaty seems to be slipping out of our collective grasp. However, it is possible that proceeding on a different basis than the current focus of the Kyoto Protocol can provide a stronger foundation for agreement. We attem ...
... At this juncture in time, an international consensus on a global climate change treaty seems to be slipping out of our collective grasp. However, it is possible that proceeding on a different basis than the current focus of the Kyoto Protocol can provide a stronger foundation for agreement. We attem ...
29 Curbing carbon without curbing development
... the result of a very limited number of decisions by a small group of firms. As a result, it is highly specific as regards moral agency – specific both in terms of the particular people whose decisions need to change and the particular actions that they need to take. This is important because the mor ...
... the result of a very limited number of decisions by a small group of firms. As a result, it is highly specific as regards moral agency – specific both in terms of the particular people whose decisions need to change and the particular actions that they need to take. This is important because the mor ...
臺灣氣候變遷議題推動成果
... voluntary commitment, and we need assistance from all sectors of society to promote industrial transformation, conserve energy, and reduce carbon emissions, so as to attain our national goals. ...
... voluntary commitment, and we need assistance from all sectors of society to promote industrial transformation, conserve energy, and reduce carbon emissions, so as to attain our national goals. ...
Greener Skies response - Aviation Environment Federation
... The crucial factor in tackling climate change is not simply arriving at a given reduction target but the cumulative stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Bill’s proposed trajectory would therefore be invalidated if aviation emissions were incorporated into the 2020 and 2050 targets at a h ...
... The crucial factor in tackling climate change is not simply arriving at a given reduction target but the cumulative stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Bill’s proposed trajectory would therefore be invalidated if aviation emissions were incorporated into the 2020 and 2050 targets at a h ...
Essentials of a Carbon Tax for Canada
... Currently we are all paying for the cost of carbon emissions in the form of poorer health, a degraded environment, and lost economic opportunities for many (including future generations). Further, the economic risk and volatility associated with the impacts of climate change is becoming increasingly ...
... Currently we are all paying for the cost of carbon emissions in the form of poorer health, a degraded environment, and lost economic opportunities for many (including future generations). Further, the economic risk and volatility associated with the impacts of climate change is becoming increasingly ...
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... U.S. being the highest GHG emitter, both in absolute terms and on per capita basis as shown in Figure 1, agreed to reduce its emissions from 1990 levels by seven percent during the implementation period of 2008-2012. However, before going into effect the Protocol required ratification and in 2002, t ...
... U.S. being the highest GHG emitter, both in absolute terms and on per capita basis as shown in Figure 1, agreed to reduce its emissions from 1990 levels by seven percent during the implementation period of 2008-2012. However, before going into effect the Protocol required ratification and in 2002, t ...
green logistics: the carbon agenda
... A broad range of measures can be applied to improve vehicle loading, save fuel and cut CO2 emissions. These include improved backloading [McKinnon and Ge, 2006], the use of more spaceefficient handling systems and packaging [A.T.Kearney, 1997], the adoption of more transportefficient order cycles (f ...
... A broad range of measures can be applied to improve vehicle loading, save fuel and cut CO2 emissions. These include improved backloading [McKinnon and Ge, 2006], the use of more spaceefficient handling systems and packaging [A.T.Kearney, 1997], the adoption of more transportefficient order cycles (f ...
Talking points: Examples of news headlines relating to climate
... In this activity, students are presented with a series of news headlines relating to climate change. Each headline is accompanied by some information explaining the issue. Ask students to discuss the information on each slide in groups and, where possible, to decide what action could be taken to dea ...
... In this activity, students are presented with a series of news headlines relating to climate change. Each headline is accompanied by some information explaining the issue. Ask students to discuss the information on each slide in groups and, where possible, to decide what action could be taken to dea ...
The Uses and Misuses of Technology Development as a Component... Abstract Henry D. Jacoby
... aggregate industrial sectors. However, for an economic change as large as the emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol, these market interactions are crucial, and so these market-based methods offer significant advantages for addressing the implications of such a commitment. The chief advantage ...
... aggregate industrial sectors. However, for an economic change as large as the emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol, these market interactions are crucial, and so these market-based methods offer significant advantages for addressing the implications of such a commitment. The chief advantage ...
2016-IP47 A Global Zero Carbon Roadmap
... Abstract The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emissions reductions within 40 years and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastro ...
... Abstract The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emissions reductions within 40 years and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastro ...
PDF - Tax Policy Center
... driving budget deficits deeper poses a problem. If the president wanted to alleviate the direct burden on earners – individual and corporate – he or she could offset the revenue loss by creating a carbon tax. The discovery and exploitation of natural resources by humans gave rise to the advanced ci ...
... driving budget deficits deeper poses a problem. If the president wanted to alleviate the direct burden on earners – individual and corporate – he or she could offset the revenue loss by creating a carbon tax. The discovery and exploitation of natural resources by humans gave rise to the advanced ci ...
Alliance of Small Island States
... The UK is a developed country, with the world's sixth largest economy. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the economic cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century ...
... The UK is a developed country, with the world's sixth largest economy. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the economic cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century ...
Global Green Policy Insights
... and waste. The Federal Council proposes to work with businesses to lessen the environmental impacts of products throughout their lifecycle and consider the introduction of regulations concerning “product environmental information and reporting on ecologically sensitive elements of a product range”. ...
... and waste. The Federal Council proposes to work with businesses to lessen the environmental impacts of products throughout their lifecycle and consider the introduction of regulations concerning “product environmental information and reporting on ecologically sensitive elements of a product range”. ...
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... UK forests are a large store of carbon and also act as an active carbon ‘sink’, removing carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere and storing it as carbon in living biomass, leaf litter and forest soil. This sequestration of CO2 is an essential ecosystem service. The data presente ...
... UK forests are a large store of carbon and also act as an active carbon ‘sink’, removing carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere and storing it as carbon in living biomass, leaf litter and forest soil. This sequestration of CO2 is an essential ecosystem service. The data presente ...