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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Kyoto Protocol"”.
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Speculating WTO coverage and classification of emmission allowances created and generated by the Kyoto Protocol
… the views of different world authorities on the Kyoto protocol. The current legal status regarding the different opinions and arguments are also considered. This study is limited to defining what allocation of allowances, units and credits as created by the Kyoto protocol can be defined as goods, …
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Can the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change achieve its ultimate objective?
… was made, after intensive negotiations, in Kyoto, Japan, with the signing of a Protocol to the Framework Convention. The Kyoto Protocol (the Protocol) signed in 1997, is significant because it introduces for the first time, legally binding obligations on developed countries to reduce their …
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All That Is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Sinks Under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
… gas emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change may invest in projects in developing countries that reduce or remove CO2 and take credit for the reductions. Since vegetation absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, trees in one place could offset gases emitted …
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Carbon sequestration in short-rotation forestry plantations and in Belgian forest ecosystems
… die de Belgische overheid aangegaan is onder het Kyoto Protocol.
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A study of the outcome of Irish agriculture policy on Ireland’s climate change obligations compared to other countries with similar agriculture sectors
The Kyoto Protocol, while not successful in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, established the main actions required to control emissions. Its successor the Paris Agreement sets a target of climate neutrality by 2050. The EU has adopted a climate leadership position with an interim target of a 40% …
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European Union Climate Change Policy: in the nexus of internal policy-making and international negotiations
… scheme (EU ETS) after the signature of the Kyoto Protocol, external factors affected the EU s divergent preferences and unified it to approve the ETS in the EU-wide. Second, I examined the relations of the EU s internal climate policy-making and international negotiations by applying the …
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Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration from the Mexican oil industry : an action plan
… will make it easier to achieve compliance with Kyoto Protocol emissions target and provide an impetus for the Clean Development Mechanism (part of the Kyoto Protocol) to support CCS. Mexico, one of the leading oil producers and consumers in the developing world, is not yet participating fully in …
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Jungtinių Tautų ir Europos Sąjungos teisinės priemonės sprendžiant klimato kaitos problemas /
… could solve the problem of climate change. The Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997. The major distinction between the two, however, is that while the UNFCCC encouraged developed countries to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, the Protocol commits them …
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JAV (ne)dalyvavimas daugiašaliuose susitarimuose dėl klimato kaitos: Kioto protokolo ir Paryžiaus susitarimo atvejai /
… own decision of (non)participation in cases of Kyoto Protocol and Paris Accord in order to legitimize political decisions. Master thesis seeks to prove that factual objectives that influence U.S. climate policy do not change or change slowly and gradually. Therefore, cardinally different climate …
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Structures et fonctionnements des marchés du carbone
… resulting from the coming into force of the Kyoto protocol in 2005 and the implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2002. The first part of the work is devoted to a literature-based analysis of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms: Emissions Trading (ET), Clean …
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International environmental governance : a case for increased regulation in the carbon markets
… attached to emissions reductions, and with the Kyoto Protocol one such mechanism has been established. At the forefront of Kyoto is an economic quantity instrument known in the carbon markets as 'cap and trade'. The central question[s] in this research paper [are:] Are carbon trading and …
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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
… change that eventually led to the birth of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. This outcome represents a legally enforceable strategy for reinforcing the UNFCCC. Being among the first key climate change regime milestones, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted to enable a working environment for international …
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Other equators : measures for an international tribunal for the Rights of Nature
In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol institutionalized carbon offsetting as a "market solution" to emissions, allowing companies and states to offset every tonne of carbon dioxide emissions with an equivalent tonne of carbon dioxide sequestered somewhere else. This logic of equivalence was enabled by a set …
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Energy consumption of building 39
… energy consumption and in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol. This thesis seeks to further expand our understanding of how the MIT campus consumes energy and with that knowledge be able to recommend methods of reducing energy consumption by minimizing and even eliminating careless energy use. …
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Reduced emissions from deforestation and degredation (REDD) and its potential role in Canada's climate change action plan
… if REDD Offsets will be included in a post-Kyoto Protocol framework. At the time of writing, Canada proposes to achieve a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions below 2006 levels by 2020 through an intensity based cap-and-trade scheme. International forestry-based offsets are …
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Strategic issues facing the development of clean development mechanism projects in South Africa
The Kyoto Protocol was signed into existence in 1999 in an effort to lower carbon emissions 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 …
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Greening the economy : a case study to identify a different approach to encourage sustainability
… place to reach the targets that were set at the Kyoto Protocol. However, considerable transformation is needed to change the behaviour of businesses, to green the economy and to encourage sustainability. This study examined the different market instruments available by the government to …
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CO2 Market Design and Operation.
… during the design and operation of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Emissions Trading Scheme and the United Kingdom's Carbon Reduction Commitment. The case studies were developed through participant observation between October 2006 and June 2010. The research developed a conceptual …
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Giving Effect to the Kyoto Mechanisms: Implications for South African Policy and Legislation
… 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 trading scheme and …
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Climate policy design : interactions among carbon dioxide, methane, and urban air pollution constraints
… require controlling multiple substances. The Kyoto Protocol structure constrains the major greenhouse gases and allows trading among them, but there exist other possible regime architectures which may be more efficient. Tradeoffs between the market efficiency of all-inclusive policies and the …
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