Policing carbon markets
Carbon markets have emerged in recent decades as one of the most important tools for curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, but they present a number of novel enforcement challenges when compared
Cap And Trade
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Carbon markets and standards: a new agenda for LDC negotiators
This brief explores two different types of carbon markets: baseline-and-credit mechanisms, which are primarily structured around offsetting and enable trade in certified emissions reductions between countries
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Enhancing carbon pricing and international carbon market readiness through the mitigation action assessment protocol: summary report
Putting a price on carbon can be an indispensable part of a country’s strategy to reduce emissions in an efficient way. Furthermore, putting a price on carbon through international carbon markets can also
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State of forest carbon finance 2021: a green growth spurt
A new report from Ecosystem Marketplace, shows that funding to conserve and increase carbon stored in forests around the world has more than doubled between 2016 and 2019. But authors say forest carbon
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Managing Investment Revenues and Costs in the Transportation Climate Initiative Region
<p>Twelve northeast and mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia are participating in the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional transportation effort to coordinate investment in cleaner
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China’s unconventional nationwide CO₂ emissions trading system: the wide-ranging impacts of an implicit output subsidy
This paper assesses the overall costs and distributional impacts of China’s planned nationwide emissions trading system for CO2 emissions reductions, a system that will differ from cap and trade and become
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Adopt or innovate: understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade
Past cap-and-trade programmes have tended to encourage polluters to adopt existing abatement technologies, but have generally had little effect on innovation. This paper presents new evidence that the
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Adopt or innovate: understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade
Past cap-and-trade programmes have tended to encourage polluters to adopt existing abatement technologies, but have generally had little effect on innovation. This paper presents new evidence that the
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Emissions trading worldwide: status report 2018
The International Carbon Action Partnership’s new report finds 2017 marks a key step forward for emissions trading. The adoption of ETSs in emerging economies, structural reforms and new cooperation initiatives
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US, Canadian provinces launch first cap-and-trade auction to battle climate change
The U.S. state of California and two Canadian provinces kicked off a cross-border auction of greenhouse gas emission credits on Wednesday, their first joint effort to buy and sell in the "cap and trade"