1. Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the international expansion of waste management firms.
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Costa, Ionara, Doranova, Asel, and Eenhoorn, Geert-Jan
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INDUSTRIAL waste management , *WASTE products & the environment , *ECONOMIC development & the environment , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *BUSINESS enterprises & the environment , *WASTE management , *INDUSTRIAL management , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
This paper analyses the participation of firms without GHG emission liabilities as technology providers in CDM and JI projects, the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. It argues that the motivations for those firms to engaging in CDM and ii projects is based on market stimuli beyond those related to the emission market itself. Instead, their motivations are largely associated with search for new markets where their technological resources and expertise can be exploited. The analysis is based on three firms from the Dutch waste management industry. These cases suggest that the Kyotos mechanisms compensate to some extent the weakness of the underdeveloped waste management sector in developing and transition economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010