The Economics of Climate Change – Likely Carbon Sequestration
... 8. Greenhouse gas emissions need to be brought under control BEFORE global warming feedbacks start contributing significantly to the Earth’s temperature, as an additional equivalent amount of CO2 wound then need be sequestered, driving the costs even higher. 9. If we want to prevent disruptive clima ...
... 8. Greenhouse gas emissions need to be brought under control BEFORE global warming feedbacks start contributing significantly to the Earth’s temperature, as an additional equivalent amount of CO2 wound then need be sequestered, driving the costs even higher. 9. If we want to prevent disruptive clima ...
Tradable Carbon Permit Auctions: How and Why to Auction Not Grandfather
... are reduced to the extent that permits are banked. Given the long life time of CO2 in the atmosphere, short term voluntary banking is unlikely to have significant impacts on CO2 concentrations. Allowing banking further increases liquidity in secondary markets, since all permits are the same after th ...
... are reduced to the extent that permits are banked. Given the long life time of CO2 in the atmosphere, short term voluntary banking is unlikely to have significant impacts on CO2 concentrations. Allowing banking further increases liquidity in secondary markets, since all permits are the same after th ...
Junk Mail`s Impact on Global Warming
... our planet is warming at an unsustainable rate. Taking on climate change is going to require some hard choices. But there’s one choice we can make that won’t be hard at all: getting rid of junk mail that we never wanted in the first place. This report reveals one of the most appalling and little-kno ...
... our planet is warming at an unsustainable rate. Taking on climate change is going to require some hard choices. But there’s one choice we can make that won’t be hard at all: getting rid of junk mail that we never wanted in the first place. This report reveals one of the most appalling and little-kno ...
Emerging Markets for Carbon Stored by Northwest Forests
... more efficient vehicles, adding a carbon tax to increase the purchase price of gasoline or increasing the attractiveness of mass transit. Emissions related to land use change, such as farming and forestry activities, are more challenging to cap. Since emissions accounting on a national level include ...
... more efficient vehicles, adding a carbon tax to increase the purchase price of gasoline or increasing the attractiveness of mass transit. Emissions related to land use change, such as farming and forestry activities, are more challenging to cap. Since emissions accounting on a national level include ...
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... little, too fast”; developing countries should play a more substantial role and receive incentives to participate; implementation should focus on market-based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately addressed by most proposals. ...
... little, too fast”; developing countries should play a more substantial role and receive incentives to participate; implementation should focus on market-based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately addressed by most proposals. ...
A New Approach to Climate Change: A Consideration of Ancillary
... on the number of offset credits that could be purchased through the Clean Development Mechanism. The ETS allows for unlimited banking of permits from year to year, and has a secondary market for future permits (Newell et al, 2013: 127). The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was formed by a collecti ...
... on the number of offset credits that could be purchased through the Clean Development Mechanism. The ETS allows for unlimited banking of permits from year to year, and has a secondary market for future permits (Newell et al, 2013: 127). The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was formed by a collecti ...
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... total costs of the stabilization policy are lowered by 10-23%. Or alternatively, REDD could enable a additional reduction of 20ppmv of CO2 equivalent concentration without policy costs increase. The comprehensive Eliasch Review (2008) has investigated the impact of introducing credits from forestry ...
... total costs of the stabilization policy are lowered by 10-23%. Or alternatively, REDD could enable a additional reduction of 20ppmv of CO2 equivalent concentration without policy costs increase. The comprehensive Eliasch Review (2008) has investigated the impact of introducing credits from forestry ...
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... (GHG) emissions and much more than other regions. On the basis of per capita GHG emissions this becomes obvious in form of higher consumption levels and standards of living. Under ethical and equity aspects this is in particular problematic because most of the victims of climate change are not among ...
... (GHG) emissions and much more than other regions. On the basis of per capita GHG emissions this becomes obvious in form of higher consumption levels and standards of living. Under ethical and equity aspects this is in particular problematic because most of the victims of climate change are not among ...
Carbon – environmental disaster or an exciting new financial product
... money, carbon contracts can be used “to store value for the future as a source of income” and just as “money is a necessary input to production” so too now is carbon. He goes on to say that “[T]he fundamental source of value for both carbon contracts and money lies in the necessity of their use as ...
... money, carbon contracts can be used “to store value for the future as a source of income” and just as “money is a necessary input to production” so too now is carbon. He goes on to say that “[T]he fundamental source of value for both carbon contracts and money lies in the necessity of their use as ...
ISSUE BRIEF 14 mANDATORy REGUlATION OF NONTRADITIONAl GREENHOUSE GASES: POlICy OPTIONS FOR INDUSTRIAl
... generate other health or environmental risks (for example, the use of ammonia as a refrigerant).14 There is also concern that a particularly sudden increase in prices might unnecessarily burden both producers and end users. A more gradual change in price would give producers time to create lowerGWP ...
... generate other health or environmental risks (for example, the use of ammonia as a refrigerant).14 There is also concern that a particularly sudden increase in prices might unnecessarily burden both producers and end users. A more gradual change in price would give producers time to create lowerGWP ...
CPUC Workshop on Societal Cost Test
... SCC in California • Reflective of established GHG reduction policies • Potentially higher level of certainty about underlying costs • Consistent with driving investment in known opportunities for climate mitigation In determining the avoided costs of carbon reductions, we can compare mitigation cost ...
... SCC in California • Reflective of established GHG reduction policies • Potentially higher level of certainty about underlying costs • Consistent with driving investment in known opportunities for climate mitigation In determining the avoided costs of carbon reductions, we can compare mitigation cost ...
RCP2.6: exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature
... literature has emerged that explore such ambitious targets (e.g. Calvin et al. 2009; Clarke et al. 2009; Edenhofer et al. 2010; Rao et al. 2008). This new scenario literature has emerged partly as a responses to work by Meinshausen et al. (2006), who indicated that stabilization of radiative forcing ...
... literature has emerged that explore such ambitious targets (e.g. Calvin et al. 2009; Clarke et al. 2009; Edenhofer et al. 2010; Rao et al. 2008). This new scenario literature has emerged partly as a responses to work by Meinshausen et al. (2006), who indicated that stabilization of radiative forcing ...
Carbon stock accounts - UNSD
... landscape. Offsets such as afforestation and reforestation are widely used, for example in the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism (although there are not many certified projects), the European cap-and-trade system, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative of the US north-eastern states, the European ...
... landscape. Offsets such as afforestation and reforestation are widely used, for example in the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism (although there are not many certified projects), the European cap-and-trade system, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative of the US north-eastern states, the European ...
pri climate change strategy project
... such as Pope Francis, are now asking followers to take up this cause. Such calls are expected to accelerate in future. For carbon reductions to occur at the level required, corporate strategy, public policy, and investment strategy need to work in concert, each informing the other’s needs. Companies ...
... such as Pope Francis, are now asking followers to take up this cause. Such calls are expected to accelerate in future. For carbon reductions to occur at the level required, corporate strategy, public policy, and investment strategy need to work in concert, each informing the other’s needs. Companies ...
Green Market Responses to Global Governance: International
... Put differently, the allocation determines the net effect of the regulation.1 So, if firms in a capand-trade market received a free allocation equivalent to 100 percent of their future emissions, the allowances would offset the increased regulatory burden because firms could clean up for ‘free’ or o ...
... Put differently, the allocation determines the net effect of the regulation.1 So, if firms in a capand-trade market received a free allocation equivalent to 100 percent of their future emissions, the allowances would offset the increased regulatory burden because firms could clean up for ‘free’ or o ...
Comments on target - Ministry for the Environment
... impacting the competitiveness of New Zealand businesses, which could result in businesses moving offshore with potentially more emissions intensive practices (also known as “carbon leakage”); and to ensure we take on a similar level of cost to other countries. Other reasons included the small size o ...
... impacting the competitiveness of New Zealand businesses, which could result in businesses moving offshore with potentially more emissions intensive practices (also known as “carbon leakage”); and to ensure we take on a similar level of cost to other countries. Other reasons included the small size o ...
Comparison of Energy-Related CO Emissions Between China and the U.S.
... CO2 GDP So the carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP have a relationship to two indicators of CO2 emissions and GDP. However, when comparing the impacts of CO2 emissions on the environment by using carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP, it can only explains a country’s carbon dioxide emissions inten ...
... CO2 GDP So the carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP have a relationship to two indicators of CO2 emissions and GDP. However, when comparing the impacts of CO2 emissions on the environment by using carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP, it can only explains a country’s carbon dioxide emissions inten ...
Report on Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Victoria
... Data from Australia’s National Greenhouse Accounts (2011) published by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) has been used to prepare this information. There is typically a two year lag between the Commonwealth Government’s publication of the National Greenhouse Accounts and ...
... Data from Australia’s National Greenhouse Accounts (2011) published by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) has been used to prepare this information. There is typically a two year lag between the Commonwealth Government’s publication of the National Greenhouse Accounts and ...
Thailand_1 - Georgia Institute of Technology
... more effective air quality management practices, such as refining programs (e.g. emissions trading, regional planning), and supporting more effective compliance enforcement. • Typical modeling approach (removing the emissions from a single source) has numerical errors. • Court case led to need to as ...
... more effective air quality management practices, such as refining programs (e.g. emissions trading, regional planning), and supporting more effective compliance enforcement. • Typical modeling approach (removing the emissions from a single source) has numerical errors. • Court case led to need to as ...
Conscious uncoupling? Low Carbon Economy Index 2015 October 2015 1.3%
... First, they aim to increase rapid investment in renewables and its share of the energy mix. For example, the capital investment needed to achieve China’s wind and solar targets is likely to add up to around $230bn. National plans describe how carbon pricing and emissions standards at power plants wi ...
... First, they aim to increase rapid investment in renewables and its share of the energy mix. For example, the capital investment needed to achieve China’s wind and solar targets is likely to add up to around $230bn. National plans describe how carbon pricing and emissions standards at power plants wi ...
Forest Sinks and the Kyoto Protocol
... that countries’ targets were set for all sources of human-caused GHG emissions except CO2 from the land use, land use change and forestry sector.1 Allowing credit in the commitment period for all sinks in countries that have taken on targets would have weakened the effect of these targets by ...
... that countries’ targets were set for all sources of human-caused GHG emissions except CO2 from the land use, land use change and forestry sector.1 Allowing credit in the commitment period for all sinks in countries that have taken on targets would have weakened the effect of these targets by ...
english - Sustainable Development of Tourism
... affecting the socio-economic benefits offered by tourism through some substitution of alternative modes of transport for tourists for short haul and some adaptation of frequency of travel and length of stay for leisure tourism at both short and long haul; however, this would require fundamental beha ...
... affecting the socio-economic benefits offered by tourism through some substitution of alternative modes of transport for tourists for short haul and some adaptation of frequency of travel and length of stay for leisure tourism at both short and long haul; however, this would require fundamental beha ...
science-based targets
... relevant to climate change. They define carbon limits and the consequences of excessive emissions. Setting targets based on IPCC data allows businesses to position themselves for impending change, with the following benefits: INNOVATION / Companies are finding ways to strategically delink economic g ...
... relevant to climate change. They define carbon limits and the consequences of excessive emissions. Setting targets based on IPCC data allows businesses to position themselves for impending change, with the following benefits: INNOVATION / Companies are finding ways to strategically delink economic g ...
Development, trade and carbon reduction
... that the carbon saving is correctly priced and that programmes to secure short-term carbon saving do not distort the incentives for investment in longer term projects. That carbon be priced correctly is a condition for any market approach to work correctly. As James MacGregor argues, this should mak ...
... that the carbon saving is correctly priced and that programmes to secure short-term carbon saving do not distort the incentives for investment in longer term projects. That carbon be priced correctly is a condition for any market approach to work correctly. As James MacGregor argues, this should mak ...