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10 Years of Experience in Carbon Finance Insights From Working With Carbon Markets for Development &...
This report from The World Bank provides an overview of the Bank’s
experience in working with the Kyoto Protocol’s flexibility mechanisms, particularly
the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI).
"The World Bank suggests that scaling up the CDM,
including through developing programmes of activities, will requi ...
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The World Bank
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Note on the Economic Cost of Climate Change and the Rationale to Limit it Below 2°C
This paper discusses uncertainty issues associated with the economic effects of climate change.Abstract:"This note highlights a major reason to limit climate change to the lowest possible levels. This reason follows from the large increase in uncertainty associated with high levels of warming. This uncertainty arises from three sources: the change ...
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Stéphane Hallegatte, Patrice Dumas, Jean-Charles Hourcade
The World Bank, Development Economics, Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Working Paper 5179, Washington, DC: January 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A U.S. Innovation Strategy for Climate Change Mitigation
Within a market-based economy, success is maximized if policies
directly address specific market problems. For technology innovation
relevant to mitigating greenhouse gases (GHGs), the two principal
market problems are a lack of private incentive to reduce GHGs by
adopting low-GHG technologies, and underinvestment by industry in
research and d ...
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Richard G. Newell
Brookings instirurte: december, 2008
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
After the Coal Rush: Assessing policy options for coal-fired electricity generation
"In
early January 2008, Medway Council gave approval to a planning application from
energy company E.ON to build a new coal-fired power station on the site of an
existing plant at Kingsnorth. This would be the first major coal-fired power
station built in the UK
since the 1970s.
"The Kingsnorth application has pr ...
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Lockwood, Matthew
London, UK: Institute for Public Policy Research. 02 July 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Agricultural Land Tenure and Carbon Offsets
From the Abstract: "If
agricultural producers are allowed to participate in a national
cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the
opportunity to sell carbon offsets could prompt farmers to manage their
land in a way that increases the amount of carbon stored in soil organic
matter and plant biomass, including residue ...
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Roger Claassen and Mitch Morehart
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., USA, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists
An Analysis of Various Policy Instruments to Reduce Congestion, Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions i...
From trhe Abstract: "Using a nested multinomial logit model of car ownership and personal travel in Beijing circa 2005, this paper compares the effectiveness of different policy instruments to reduce traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. The study shows that a congestion toll is more efficient than a fuel tax in reducing traffic congestion, wher ...
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Alex Anas, Govinda R. Timilsina, and Siqi Zheng
The World Bank, September 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: Asia and OceaniaFor Economists
Annual Energy Outlook 2010 (with projections to 2035)
This annual report by the Department of Energy's U.S. Energy Information Administration addresses a range of energy issues in the U.S., including the effects of newly passed or proposed legislation, market trends for specific energy sources, and case studies of specific issues.
From the Preface:
"The report begins with an ...
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Energy Information Administration
Washington, DC: April 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Assessment of Macro Economic Transmission Mechanisms of Carbon Constraints Through the UK Economy
From the Introduction: "The objective of this study is to analyse theoretically how carbon budgets (limits on the UK's emissions of carbon dioxide) affect the UK economy at a macroeconomic level. To this end it considers how a range of measures to meet the carbon budgets affect production and consumption in different sectors, and how these chang ...
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Christopher Pissarides
London School of Economics, London, UK, August 2008 ??????????????????????????
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Baltic Sea Region Testing Ground Facility (TGF)
From the Overview: "For the past five years, the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) has been an active participant in the project-based segment of the carbon markets which have mobilised significant new investments for climate change mitigation. The Baltic Sea Region Testing Ground Facility (TGF), a pioneering regional carbon fund ma ...
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Ash Sharma and Hanna-Mari Ahonen i
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, Helsinki, Finland, March 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Biofuels Subsidies and the Green Paradox
This paper discusses the green paradox, in which renewables stimulate fossil fuel consumption, and biofuel subsidies.Abstract:"This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than off ...
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R. Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas, Ngo Van Long
CESIFO Working Paper No. 2960, Munich, Germany: February 2010.
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists
Building Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: Have we got all the blocks?
It is increasingly recognized by the G-20 and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) that subsidizing fossil fuels is not only inefficient but encourages consumption of this limited and polluting source of energy. In addition, continued subsidizatioin of fossil fuels will divert funds from badly needed social concerns such as healthcare, water ...
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Global Subsidies Initiative
Global Subsidies Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Buy Coal? Deposit Markets Prevent Carbon Leakage
This paper discusses the impact of international climate coalitions on fossil fuel and renewables use.
Abstract:
"If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy dist ...
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Bård Harstad
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16119, New York City: 18 June 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists
Canada's Bitumen Industry Under CO2 Constraints
This paper discusses modeling the influence of climate policies on energy production in Canada's Bitumen Industry.Abstract:"We investigate the effects of implementing CO2 emissions reduction policies on Canada’s oil sands industry, the largest of its kind in the world. The production of petroleum products from oils sands involves extraction of bitu ...
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Gabriel Chan, John M. Reilly, Sergey Paltsev, and Y.H. Henry Chen
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA: January 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Carbon Capture and Storage Progress and Next Steps
From "Key Points on Progress":
"To measure progress against the goal of launching 20 large‐scale CCS projects by 2010, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) and the Global CCS Institute reviewed government initiatives and developed a set of assessment criteria against which to review progr ...
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International Energy Agency
International Energy Agency, Paris, France, 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Carbon capture and storage: What the EU needs to do
This report from the Centre for European Reform discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and policy in multiple countries, but focuses on policy and recommendations for CCS in the European Union. Though the report focuses on the EU, other countries who rely heavily on fossil fuels and are considering major investment in CCS (such as t ...
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Tindale, Stephen and Tilford, Simon
Center for European Reform: London, February 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Asia and OceaniaFor Economists|For the Public
Carbon Finance Possibilities for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Projects in a Smallholder ...
From the Report: "This guide is intended to guide extension service advisors and institutions who work with small‐scale farmers and foresters with an interest in Carbon Finance and Carbon Projects. Its aim is to support setting‐up carbon projects which involve small‐scale farmers. Their participation allows them to be involved in the devel ...
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Christina Seeberg‐Elverfeldt
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, February 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
China and the US: The potential of a clean-tech partnership
Yet another article outlining the urgent need for countries to work together to provide the scales, standards and technology transfer necessary, as well as the financing and colossal investment that will be required, to substantially curb the dangers of global warming. In this case, the two countries are China and The United States, as the two lea ...
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Jonathon Woetzel, Director, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company
Mckinsey Quarterly, August, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and OceaniaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Cities' Contribution to Global Warming: Notes on the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From the Abstract: "This paper suggests that the contribution of cities to global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is often overstated. Many sources suggest that
cities are responsible for 75–80 per cent of all such emissions. But as statistics drawn
from the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment show, this considerably understates the contributions fr ...
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David Satterthwaite
Sage, November 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate and Trade Policies in a Post 2012 World
This is a collection of articles by leading experts on the relationship between trade and climate change policies. It examines the future interplay between climate, trade policies, and institutions. The collection consists of articles that focus on "international, regional and national policies and institutions relevant to the implementation of ...
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United Nations Environment Programme Economics and Trade Branch and the ADAM Project
United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models
From the Abstract:
"The 'climate imperative'—the urgent need to both mitigate and adapt to global climate change—has important implications for economic development paths in general and industry and energy policies in particular. Development models and practice historically have treated climate—and indeed, the natural environment in general ...
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Lyuba Zarsky
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA, February 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
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