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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Farmers v greens
Ameria will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has tilled these fields for four generations. His great-grandfather built the local church.
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Fiscal climate policy
Martin Hutchinson / November 13, 2009, 0:34 IST
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Going clean: the economics of Chinas low-carbon development
Developed countries are largely responsible for the climate change to date, but future responsibility is shared by developed and developing countries alike. Rapidly developing countries such as China with steeply rising emission curves must also
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The effects of low-carbon policies on net farm income
Concerns about expected increases in energy and other agricultural input costs have led some to oppose greenhouse gas cap-and-trade legislative proposals. However, these policies could result in significant revenue for U.S.
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Climate change governance: boundaries and leakage
This article provides a critical missing piece to the global climate change governance puzzle: how to create incentives for the major developing countries to reduce carbon emissions. The major developing countries are projected to account for 80 percent of global emissions growth over the next several
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Policies for low carbon growth
The Overseas Development Institute has reviewed the low carbon growth and climate change response strategies of a range of countries with differing economic characteristics to draw out the policy implications for developing countries at different stages of development.
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Carbon trading: how it works and why it fails
Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world
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Climate change: politics and facts
Climate change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer complexity and urgency is defeating us For the past 19 years
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The road to 60
MANY commentators fear that Barack Obama
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Soros to invest $1 b in clean energy, forms advisory group
BILLIONAIRE George Soros, looking to address the