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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Coverage of natural gas emissions and flows under a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with natural gas make up nearly 18 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions. This report provides an overview of the different point-of-regulation options for covering greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas under a cap-and-trade program.
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Climate change mitigation: what do we do?
In this document, the OECD expands its analysis in two important domains: first, it focuses on the role of technological innovation in bringing down the costs of climate change mitigation over time. It argues that a concerted research and development effort can indeed be expected to yield important benefits, but not by itself.
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Outside the cap: opportunities and limitations of greenhouse gas offsets
Carbon offset programs require the application of rigorous quantifi cation, verifi cation, and enforcement criteria in order to ensure that the integrity of greenhouse gas (GHG) caps is not compromised. Some types of climate change mitigation activities
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President-elect Obama promises new chapter on climate change
President-elect Obama showed his enthusiasm for the Poznan Conference and promised to mark a new chapter in American leadership on climate change, while addressing the opening sessions of the Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles.
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Containing the costs of climate policy
This report outlines various options for containing costs under a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Scope of a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program
This report describes issues involved in choosing the set of greenhouse gases (GHGs), emission sources, and sectors of
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The greenhouse development rights framework: the right to development in a climate constrained world
This paper argues that an emergency climate stabilization program is needed, that such a program is only possible if the international effort-sharing impasse is decisively broken, and that this impasse arises from a severe, but nevertheless
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Forestry carbon standards 2008: a comparison of the leading standards in the voluntary carbon market
A study of four leading forestry project standards from the voluntary carbon market reveals significant differences in approach, making the choice of which standard to use vital for both project developers and future credit buyers.
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Technology policies to address climate change
This brief presents public policy tools available to provide support for research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An emissions price induced by a
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Policies to reduce emissions from the transportation sector
This brief discusses public policy tools available to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. Reducing GHG emissions from transportation, which comprise one third of total U.S. CO2 emissions, will need