McGraw Hill Higher Education - McGraw
... GRI-Certified Training Program- to create worldwide common understanding of the sustainability reporting process Sponsored Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency to discuss issues on reporting and assurance G4—standardized approach to reporting, encouraging the degree of transparency a ...
... GRI-Certified Training Program- to create worldwide common understanding of the sustainability reporting process Sponsored Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency to discuss issues on reporting and assurance G4—standardized approach to reporting, encouraging the degree of transparency a ...
2007 August, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics
... households would bear disproportionately large burdens—to shareholders of energy companies, who are disproportionately higher-income households.” However, if permits are auctioned, the revenue can be used to offset other taxes or provide other public services and consumers would share in the benefit ...
... households would bear disproportionately large burdens—to shareholders of energy companies, who are disproportionately higher-income households.” However, if permits are auctioned, the revenue can be used to offset other taxes or provide other public services and consumers would share in the benefit ...
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... Notes: 1 This country is part of a wider regional aggregate in the WITCH model. The growth of emissions in the BaU scenario is calculated using the average growth rate of the wider regional aggregate to which the country belongs. 2 We use the increment of GHGs emissions in the WITCH model BaU scenar ...
... Notes: 1 This country is part of a wider regional aggregate in the WITCH model. The growth of emissions in the BaU scenario is calculated using the average growth rate of the wider regional aggregate to which the country belongs. 2 We use the increment of GHGs emissions in the WITCH model BaU scenar ...
An Analysis of Black Carbon Mitigation as a Response to Climate
... Likewise, action by industrial countries alone to reduce their emissions to minimal levels by mid-century cannot be cost-effective because during this century a majority of GHG emissions will originate from developing countries.11 However, developing countries have been unwilling to adopt carbon lim ...
... Likewise, action by industrial countries alone to reduce their emissions to minimal levels by mid-century cannot be cost-effective because during this century a majority of GHG emissions will originate from developing countries.11 However, developing countries have been unwilling to adopt carbon lim ...
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Module: Introduction Module: Management [Investor]
... terms of energy and carbon emissions savings, with all our operations having targets in place for energy and carbon emissions reduction to 2015. d) The most important components of the long term strategy that have been influenced by climate change: Anglo American has embarked on a Mine2030 project, ...
... terms of energy and carbon emissions savings, with all our operations having targets in place for energy and carbon emissions reduction to 2015. d) The most important components of the long term strategy that have been influenced by climate change: Anglo American has embarked on a Mine2030 project, ...
Construction of abatement cost curves
... banned chlorofluorocarbons then their significance is almost similar to CO2 (Reilly et al., 2003). To limit climate change in the most effective way, then climate policies have to cope with all of them simultaneously. A significant benefit that non-CO2 GHGs provide is their quite low abatement cost ...
... banned chlorofluorocarbons then their significance is almost similar to CO2 (Reilly et al., 2003). To limit climate change in the most effective way, then climate policies have to cope with all of them simultaneously. A significant benefit that non-CO2 GHGs provide is their quite low abatement cost ...
National Inventory Report on greenhouse gas sources and sinks
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... • Indicate that the reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and that the reproduction has not been produced in affiliation with or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada. Commercial reproduction and distribution is prohibited except with wr ...
Climate Change and the Global Economy
... to recent financial turbulence. The main cause of these negative effects is the fact that advanced economies have placed trade restrictions on imports of biofuels, constraining the production of biofuels in lower-cost countries such as Brazil. This chapter focuses on examining the macroeconomic an ...
... to recent financial turbulence. The main cause of these negative effects is the fact that advanced economies have placed trade restrictions on imports of biofuels, constraining the production of biofuels in lower-cost countries such as Brazil. This chapter focuses on examining the macroeconomic an ...
Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World
... agent (Burtraw and Shobe 2009). Negotiated resolutions between governments are hard to study. We do know that the interstate compact option provided explicitly for such purpose in the U.S. Constitution is rarely used,6 which seems to imply that there are significant costs to localities in using this ...
... agent (Burtraw and Shobe 2009). Negotiated resolutions between governments are hard to study. We do know that the interstate compact option provided explicitly for such purpose in the U.S. Constitution is rarely used,6 which seems to imply that there are significant costs to localities in using this ...
ITLS-WP-09-21 - The University of Sydney
... the paper presents conclusions, drawing out some key policy implications. ...
... the paper presents conclusions, drawing out some key policy implications. ...
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... emissions make up almost half of New Zealand‟s gross emissions: at current targets, with a conservative carbon price of NZ$25, by 2020 New Zealand agricultural emissions will have an annual opportunity cost of $1 billion11. If New Zealanders could even halve emissions from agriculture we would benef ...
... emissions make up almost half of New Zealand‟s gross emissions: at current targets, with a conservative carbon price of NZ$25, by 2020 New Zealand agricultural emissions will have an annual opportunity cost of $1 billion11. If New Zealanders could even halve emissions from agriculture we would benef ...
INSTITUTIONAL AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION A Thesis Presented
... and trade systems allow emissions to exceed the affected populations’ fair share in global CO2e absorption capacities. Furthermore, all existing systems allow firms to obtain more tradable emissions permits if they offset their emissions by funding other activities that sequester carbon dioxide or r ...
... and trade systems allow emissions to exceed the affected populations’ fair share in global CO2e absorption capacities. Furthermore, all existing systems allow firms to obtain more tradable emissions permits if they offset their emissions by funding other activities that sequester carbon dioxide or r ...
1 Residential Solar Panels and Their Impact on the Reduction of
... recommended the adoption of renewable energy technology to provide for about a third of the state’s energy needs in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuel use (CARB 2008). Renewable energy technology derives power from sources such as wind, sun, and biomass and it i ...
... recommended the adoption of renewable energy technology to provide for about a third of the state’s energy needs in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuel use (CARB 2008). Renewable energy technology derives power from sources such as wind, sun, and biomass and it i ...
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change
... between total emissions derived from background atmospheric changes1 and emissions needed to sustain late-Holocene mixing ratios of 255–270 p.p.b. (refs 15, 32), assuming an uncertainty in lifetime of 65%. b, Emissions by compound and sector (note scale change). Emissions associated with different s ...
... between total emissions derived from background atmospheric changes1 and emissions needed to sustain late-Holocene mixing ratios of 255–270 p.p.b. (refs 15, 32), assuming an uncertainty in lifetime of 65%. b, Emissions by compound and sector (note scale change). Emissions associated with different s ...
A Multi-Criteria Assessment Framework for Carbon
... standard market economics argue that whilst forest ecological services are hugely valuable to human well-being (in effect all ecological functions of forests are ultimately also economic values) many of these functions have no markets and hence no apparent value, justifying the creation of markets. ...
... standard market economics argue that whilst forest ecological services are hugely valuable to human well-being (in effect all ecological functions of forests are ultimately also economic values) many of these functions have no markets and hence no apparent value, justifying the creation of markets. ...
The Value of Carbon in Decision-Making
... target should be, the best way to achieve it, and how much each approach will cost. Further, it facilitates the comparison of the cost of emission reductions across sectors, and to assess the overall economic cost of a particular policy. • The SCC and MAC are valuable tools, but users of these metr ...
... target should be, the best way to achieve it, and how much each approach will cost. Further, it facilitates the comparison of the cost of emission reductions across sectors, and to assess the overall economic cost of a particular policy. • The SCC and MAC are valuable tools, but users of these metr ...
Report
... Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) in 2009. Signed by 112 nations, it also provides testament to the endurance and importance of forest-based solutions to climate change. Though voluntary and legally non-binding, the Accord acknowledges the critical role that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...
... Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) in 2009. Signed by 112 nations, it also provides testament to the endurance and importance of forest-based solutions to climate change. Though voluntary and legally non-binding, the Accord acknowledges the critical role that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...
Combating Global Climate Change - University of Michigan Law
... system to reduce acid rain in the 1990s, 4 we have never used cap and trade to address an emissions problem that involves such a wide variety of sources, nor do we have experience with a global cap and trade system. A more efficient and effective market-based approach to reduce carbon dioxide emissi ...
... system to reduce acid rain in the 1990s, 4 we have never used cap and trade to address an emissions problem that involves such a wide variety of sources, nor do we have experience with a global cap and trade system. A more efficient and effective market-based approach to reduce carbon dioxide emissi ...
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
... Requires GHG emissions reduced to 1990 levels by 2020 Early Action measures (low carbon fuel standard, mobile air conditioning, tire pressure program, shore power for oceangoing vessels) Governor has “safety valve” in the event of extraordinary ...
... Requires GHG emissions reduced to 1990 levels by 2020 Early Action measures (low carbon fuel standard, mobile air conditioning, tire pressure program, shore power for oceangoing vessels) Governor has “safety valve” in the event of extraordinary ...
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... Requires GHG emissions reduced to 1990 levels by 2020 Early Action measures (low carbon fuel standard, mobile air conditioning, tire pressure program, shore power for oceangoing vessels) Governor has “safety valve” in the event of extraordinary ...
... Requires GHG emissions reduced to 1990 levels by 2020 Early Action measures (low carbon fuel standard, mobile air conditioning, tire pressure program, shore power for oceangoing vessels) Governor has “safety valve” in the event of extraordinary ...
Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
... Consider first the situation where the state program is more stringent than the national program in that it requires reductions from sources within the state that are greater than would be achieved under the national program alone. In this case, emissions sources must surrender both state and feder ...
... Consider first the situation where the state program is more stringent than the national program in that it requires reductions from sources within the state that are greater than would be achieved under the national program alone. In this case, emissions sources must surrender both state and feder ...
The Relation Between Net Carbon Emissions
... Robert E. McCormick is professor and BB&T Scholar in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University and a senior associate at PERC. This work borrows extensively from joint work coauthored with Joshua Utt and Walker Hunter (Utt, Hunter, and McCormick 2002). Terry Anderson particula ...
... Robert E. McCormick is professor and BB&T Scholar in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University and a senior associate at PERC. This work borrows extensively from joint work coauthored with Joshua Utt and Walker Hunter (Utt, Hunter, and McCormick 2002). Terry Anderson particula ...
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... Energy use can be difficult to model. In many cases, it is associated with the use of longlived capital, ranging from automobiles with a 1five-year life, to buildings with a 50-year life, to electricity generating assets with potentially an even longer life. In addition, the markets surrounding ener ...
... Energy use can be difficult to model. In many cases, it is associated with the use of longlived capital, ranging from automobiles with a 1five-year life, to buildings with a 50-year life, to electricity generating assets with potentially an even longer life. In addition, the markets surrounding ener ...
An Analysis of Sweden`s Carbon Footprint
... and as a result are responsible for the majority of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today. Poorer countries will need to increase their emissions to allow more people to meet their basic needs, and so industrialised countries must therefore lead the way out of crisis by drastically reducing global ...
... and as a result are responsible for the majority of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today. Poorer countries will need to increase their emissions to allow more people to meet their basic needs, and so industrialised countries must therefore lead the way out of crisis by drastically reducing global ...