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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Carbon Offset"”.
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A comparative assessment of the clean development mechanism and Alberta's carbon offset system
This thesis is an assessment of Alberta’s Carbon Offset System (ACOS) using the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a comparator. ACOS is a hybrid policy, having features of both command-and-control and market based instruments. The objective of implementing ACOS within Alberta’s …
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The Political Economy of CDM Market in China: Business Actors in the Governance of Carbon Offset
This thesis examines the role of business actors in networking, influencing and shaping the governance of China’s CDM market. By adopting a neo-pluralistic view of business power, it reveals how companies in the CDM market in China are wielding their unique capabilities and technics to affect …
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From theory to practice in joint implementation of the climate change convention : New England Power's forestry carbon offset projects in Malaysia
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Analyzing Risks in Voluntary Forest Carbon Offsets Using Open Data: A Hybrid Framework Integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs and Geospatial Analytics
The credibility of voluntary carbon markets hinges on the quality of carbon offset projects, particularly in forestry and land-use sectors where claims of additionality and emissions reductions are often disputed. This paper introduces a novel, open-source approach to evaluating carbon offset …
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Feasibility study of carbon offsets as a source of revenue for a land trust using the Climate Action Reserve's avoided conversion protocol
… forest land contained 45,337 teragrams (Tg) of carbon. Changes in land use and forestry practices in 2008 resulted in a net carbon sequestration of 940.3 Tg of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 13.5% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, making forests a net sink for carbon. With …
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
… issues of our time. Afforestation generated carbon offset projects hold a position in Canada as potentially influential, yet frustratingly under-utilized, options to mitigate climate change. This dissertation responds to the question, “what are the economic implications of afforestation …
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Koalisi Lahan–Gambut: Assembling Peat–Land Futures in Kalimantan
… Mega-Rice Project and most notably today’s carbon offset regimes, peat has been transformed into a paradoxical ecology: degraded yet investible, conserved yet profitable. These transformations enclose land, force communities to choose between extraction or restoration, criminalize fire, and …
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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Trading Markets
A large number of concepts related to carbon offset trading policy are currently being discussed such as baseline, leakage, permanence, monitoring, verification, enforcement, financial feasibility, and third party verification. Cutting across these concepts are a variety of risks and uncertainties. …
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What Role Can CEQA Play in Reaching GHG Emissions Reductions Goals Set Forth in AB 32 – An Analysis of CEQA, AB 32, and Recommendations for CEQA Reform
… for CEQA reform includes incorporating the carbon-offset program established under AB 32 as part of the California cap-and-trade program into CEQA projects, expanding CEQA streamlining to include projects that employ green building, energy efficiency, and VMT reducing projects, and improving …
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Carbon offsets as a cost containment instrument : a case study of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Carbon offset is one type of flexibility mechanism in greenhouse gas emission trading schemes that helps nations meet their emission commitments at lower costs. Carbon offsets take advantage of lower abatement cost opportunities from unregulated sectors and regions, which can be used to offset the …
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Realizing global environmental objectives through local environmental initiatives : the incentives behind stakeholder participation in forest carbon sequestration projects
… have been invested in jointly-implemented forest carbon sequestration projects in both Annex Band non- Annex B countries. This prompts the question of why, without mandatory emission reduction requirements or promise of any return on their investment in emission reduction credits, governments, …
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Modifying a Cow-Calf Biophysical Simulation Model for Analyses of Alternative Enterprises
… aimed at increasing biomass supply and lowering carbon emissions, were analyzed for their implications on the financial and environmental wellbeing of farms. It turns out, each of the two policies, the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) and a Carbon Offset Program (CO), encourage the …
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Three essays on emission credit markets
… linking the emission allowance market and the offset credit market. The Kyoto Protocol established targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate climate change, and it introduced two kinds of market-based mechanisms: the emission allowance market and the carbon offset …
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Biochemical Methane Potential and Methane Oxidation Potential of Excavated Waste Residue from Calgary Biocell
… (MOP) of the EWR were evaluated to find the carbon offset of the Calgary Biocell project and potential application of EWR in future landfill biocovers. The EWR samples were collected from different locations within the Calgary Biocell and characterized. The composition of each EWR sample was …
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How best to generate carbon revenue for small-scale projects in sub-Saharan Africa
… projects, delivering only 0.3% of the total CDM carbon offsets. This is thought to be because of the low intensity of the greenhouse gas reducing interventions prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of institutional capacity relating to the CDM processes, the high transaction costs of the …
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Essays On The Effects Of Asymmetric Information
… of uncertainty, specifically in the context of a carbon offset market. In this scenario, a regulator offers private land owners a contract that compensates them for producing carbon offsets while minimizing adverse selection and welfare losses. The model shows that monitoring should decrease as …
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Sensitivities of Atmospheric Composition to High-Altitude Vehicles Emissions
… 0.057 ppbv rise from NOₓ emissions, while black carbon and organic carbon caused a reduction of 0.0005 ppbv. Additionally, we noted an increase in global column ozone (0.14 DU), with NOₓ and water vapor contributing 0.20 DU and -0.026 DU, respectively. PWM PM₂.₅ increased by 0.006 μg/m³, where …
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An investigation of the biogeochemical exchange of the macro plant nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen on rewetted peat soil on the Somerset Levels and Moors.
… farming technology and emerging concept of carbon offset credits they could have potential to become a profitable and bring ecological beneficial biomass production. The wetland plants that naturally grow on the SLMs could potentially be used for paludiculture and for the phosphorus …