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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Clean Development Mechanism"”.
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International successes in clean development mechanism implementation : lessons for South Africa
The pace at which South Africa is implementing Clean Development Mechanism projects has been regarded as slow, below the country’s potential and lagging other developing countries. Factors discouraging implementation of CDM projects in South Africa are universal and not just unique to South Africa. …
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The road to the successful clean development mechanism : lessons from the past
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has evolved at a surprising speed since 2003 and is considered to have made positive contributions to the development of greenhouse-gas-reducing projects in developing countries. Taking into account its historical significance as the first effort of its kind …
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Strategic issues facing the development of clean development mechanism projects in South Africa
… emitted around the globe. Under the protocol, a mechanism called the CDM was created in order to help developing nations, such as South Africa, lower their carbon emissions. This paper looks at the development of the carbon credits market in South Africa which was created by CDM. Since the …
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A comparative assessment of the clean development mechanism and Alberta's carbon offset system
… 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 overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …
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Development of a Framework for Assessing Sustainability Benefits of Landfill Gas Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
The twin objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are to assist developing country host nations in achieving sustainable development, and to assist developed countries in meeting their greenhouse gases (GHG) emission reduction targets. This is achieved through implementing GHG abatement …
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The clean development mechanism potential of a combined heat and power plant in Stellenbosch, South Africa
… waste res idues. This dissertation assesses the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) potential of a proposed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant that will utilise a sawmill's byproducts, or waste residues, as its fuel source; the sawmill is located in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The sawmill employs …
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Der 'Clean Development Mechanism' : Unsicherheit bei der Projektevaluierung und langfristige Anreize für Entwicklungsländer ; mit Fallanalysen im Energie und Transportsektor
… unterstützen, führt das Protokoll von Kyoto den Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) ein. Im Rahmen des CDM können Investoren aus Industriestaaten Klimaschutzprojekte in Entwicklungsländern durchführen oder finanzieren und die damit erzielten Emissionsreduktionen auf ihre eigenen …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) : analysing the financial viability of potential CDM projects, and assessing associated sustainable development impacts for South Africa
… reduction instruments known as 'flexibility mechanisms' to achieve the overall objective of “... stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere ...” (UNFCCC 1992). Of the four climate change mitigation implementation instruments (or mechanisms), the Clean Development …
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From Kyoto to Paris - a review of South Africa's climate change response with particular emphasis on the Clean Development Mechanism and envisaged transition to the Sustainable Development Mechanism
… The study focuses in particular on tracing the development of and learning from past experience with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - one of the flexible mechanisms provided for in the Kyoto Protocol and tailored specifically for reducing emissions in developing countries. This is …
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Effective fulfilment, implementation, and supervision of the validation and registration requirements for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects: a missing link in the achievement of the sustainable development objective of the CDM
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was established by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol to promote sustainable development in developing countries and, at the same time, assist developed countries to achieve their emission reduction commitments in a cost-effective way. The CDM appears to have …
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Giving Effect to the Kyoto Mechanisms: Implications for South African Policy and Legislation
… an examination of two of the three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto protocol, namely the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Emissions Trading and their rules and guidelines for implementation. Regard will be had to specific emissions trading schemes as models for a future South African …
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Distributive justice in international law: : can the CDM regime support an equitable geographic distribution of projects?
… and how an equitable geographic distribution of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects can be achieved. In particular, it examines whether the CDM legal regime can achieve an equitable geographic distribution of projects, or whether the issues that contribute to the inequitable distribution …
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Die Implementierung nationaler Ausgleichsprojekte in der Klimaschutzpolitik der Bundesrepublik aus ökonomischer Perspektive
… Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten von NP mit dem Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) und Joint Implementation (JI) offen. Die umweltökonomische Analyse ergibt, dass NP in Deutschland in Ergänzung insbesondere des EU-Emissionsrechtehandels eingeführt werden sollten. Dementsprechend werden Fragen der …
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Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration from the Mexican oil industry : an action plan
… of this strategy may be crucial to the future development of the oil and electricity industries in signatory countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These signatories and their major corporations have research initiatives underway to deploy and test …
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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Implementierung internationaler Klimaschutzabkommen – Eine ökonomische Nutzen-Kosten-Betrachtung am Beispiel der technologischen Kooperation
… von Ansätzen, die (im weiteren Sinne) als Mechanismen einer Technologiekooperation im gegenwärtigen System betrachtet werden können untersucht die Arbeit in Kapitel 4 den Einfluss des Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) auf den Transfer von Technologien. In Kapitel 5 werden mögliche …
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Impact of European Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) on carbon emissions and investment decisions in the power sector
… Furthermore, related policy domains such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Renewable energy policy are assessed and sector-wide carbon abatement estimates are reconciled between fuel switching and emissions displacement from renewables.
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O USO DO MERCADO DE CARBONO COMO FONTE DE FINANCIAMENTO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE ÁREAS AGRÍCOLAS: ESTUDO DE CASO DE PEQUENAS PROPRIEDADES DE PASTAGEM NO CENTRO-NORTE FLUMINENSE.
… has an objective to analyze within the Local Development with eucalyptus reforestation on lands used for grazing, having as a financial source the Carbon Credits Market through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, as well as support market demand for the charcoal for siderurgic …
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Optimización de estrategias de empresas del sector energético ante el cambio climático
… Emission Reductions) from internal CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects at a competitive prize, compared with the prizes of other market instruments. To proceed with this assessment, the CDM marginal cost curve of this company is needed; its construction requires the development of …
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Leveraging Policy for Renewable Energy Development in Industrialized Countries and Emerging Markets
… analyzes existing policies and financial mechanisms used to encourage renewable energy development through three academic papers. I first propose the carbon revenue bond as a new financing tool to complement the environmental credit markets that exist in developed countries. Stochastic …
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Analyzing sustainable energy in developing countries: Selected South African case studies
… The thesis reports on environmentally friendly development paths derived from the application of the Goal Programming extension of MARKAL. Finally it questions the appropriateness of the Clean Development Mechanism's policy of supporting only 'additional' GHG mitigation in certain circumstances. …
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