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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
2009 Bonn Seminar: Financial Architecture and Governance
From the Introduction: This ECBI (European Capacity Building Initiative) Policy Brief is based on the presentations and discussion at the 2009 round of the annual ECBI Bonn Seminars held on 7 June 2009 at La Redoute in Bonn/Bad Godesberg, during the sixth session of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA). This event wa ...
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Benito Müller
ECBI Policy Brief, July 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: Rich and Poor NationsFor Specialized Analysts
A Climate for Collaboration: Analysis of US and EU Lessons and Opportunities in Energy and Climate P...
From the Abstract: "This paper aims to improve mutual understanding between the EU and US with regard to climate change and energy policy, suggesting specific opportunities for transatlantic cooperation in this area. A background on the environmental, legislative, and economic contexts of the EU and US as they relate to climate policy sets the con ...
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Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy in the U.S.
“Climate change is not
only an issue of the environment; it is also an issue of justice and human
rights, one that dangerously intersects race and class. All over the world
people f color, Indigenous Peoples and low-income communities ear
disproportionate burdens from climate change itself, ...
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Hoerner, J. Andrew, and Nia Robinson
Oakland, CA: Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative: July 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements
From the Executive Summary: The financial crisis and deep recession illustrate the unforeseen macroeconomic conditions through which climate policy must endure if it is to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases over the long run. It has made voters uneasy about climate policy that could raise energy costs and unemployment, even though the ...
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Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter Wilcoxen
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Asia and OceaniaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Copenhagen Prognosis: Towards a Safe Climate Future
This report examines the current state of climate change, offers guidance for the future and a path forward, and finally takes into account the need for climate protection for human development in the third world.
Excerpted from the Key Messages section: "Achieving the necessary 'Great Transformation' to give humanity a reasonable chance t ...
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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
A Nuclear Future? UK Government Policy and the Role of the Market
This paper discusses the least cost strategies for decarbonizing the EU's electricity supply.
Abstract:
"Meeting carbon targets requires decarbonising electricity. The least cost strategy involves nuclear power. In a liberalised electricity market, the price of electricity is set by fossil generation whose input costs are vo ...
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David M. Newbery
University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group, Cambridge, UK: 25 March 2010.
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts
A Realistic Policy on International Carbon Offsets
From the Summary: "As the United States designs its strategy for regulating emissions of greenhouse gases, two central issues have emerged. One is how to limit the cost of compliance while still maintaining environmental integrity. The other is how to “engage” developing countries in serious efforts to limit emissions. Industry and economists ar ...
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Michael W. Wara and David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford, CA, April 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Taxonomy of Instruments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and their Interactions
From the abstract: "This paper reviews alternative (national and international) climate change mitigation policy instruments and interactions across them. Carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, standards and technology-support policies (R&D and clean technology deployment) in particular are assessed according to three broad cost-effectiveness criteri ...
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Romain Duval
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Economics Department Working Paper No. 636, September 2008
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor NationsFor Economists|For the Public
A Theory of Adaptation to Climate Change as a Global Public Good
This paper discusses a global climate change adaptation mechanism.Abstract:"Policy discussions of climate change have been primarily concerned about mitigating greenhouse gases. However, when adaptation to climate change is a global public good, an efficient allocation cannot be achieved by the imposition of a carbon tax alone to abate greenhouse g ...
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S. Niggol Seo
United States Association for Energy Economics and International Association for Energy Economics, Working Paper 10-041, Chicago and Cleveland: February 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Evaluating Proposals
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
Adapting to climate change: How building stronger communities can save lives, create jobs, and build...
In both the US and developing countries, poor communities are particularly vulnerable
to the impacts of climate change. A key determinant of whether or not a community can cope with climate change is its access to and control over resources—natural, human, social, physical, financial, and political.
Poor communities are particularly vulnerabl ...
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Oxfam America
Oxfam America, Boston, MA, 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Addressing Climate Change: The Politics of the Policy Options
Several years ago the preferred option among climate policy analysts was for a carbon tax, offset by corresponding reductions in income and other taxes. Because of the success of the SO2 model and the perception that anything labeled a “tax” would be politically infeasible, interest shifted to a cap-and-trade approach. But the SO2 experience is n ...
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Elaine Kamarck
The U.S. Climate Task Force, June 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Proposals,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
Addressing Price Volatility in Climate Change Legislation
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Dallas Burtraw suggests incorporating price floors and ceilings for carbon permits in order to reduce the riskiness of investments in less carbon-intensive technologies, minimize economic disruption and combat manipulative practices in permit markets.
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Dallas Burtraw
Resources for the Future Congressional Testimony, March 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For the Public
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
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, inc ...
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Roger Claassen and Mitch Morehart
Social Science Research Network, October 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
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
An Equitable Tax Reform to Address Global Climate Change
This paper describes a carbon tax swap that is both revenue and distributionally neutral.
The tax swap would levy a tax on greenhouse gas emissions. The revenue would be used
to fund a reduction in the income tax, tied to earned income.
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Gilbert E. Metcalf
The Brookings Institution: 2007
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists|For the Public
An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap
Abstract: The direct sale of emissions allowances by auction is an emerging characteristic of cap-and-trade programs. This study is motivated by the observation that all of the major implementations of cap-and- trade regulations for the control of air pollution have started with a generous allocation of allowances relative to recent emissions histo ...
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William Shobe, Karen Palmer, Erica Myers, Charles Holt, Jacob Goeree, and Dallas Burtraw
Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 09-25, June 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Economists
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