15 results on '"*ENVIRONMENTAL policy"'
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2. Integrity of the Emerging Global Markets in Greenhouse Gases.
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Solomon, BarryD. and Heiman, MichaelK.
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GREENHOUSE gases & the environment , *GREENHOUSE gases , *GOVERNMENT policy , *EMISSIONS trading , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact charges ,UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 December 11 - Abstract
This article considers the integrity of the emerging emissions allowance markets for greenhouse gases (GHG) under the international emissions trading system created by the Kyoto Protocol and the parallel European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. In particular, we suggest that accepted definitions of emissions baselines, initial allocation of emission credits, verification of “additionality” for GHG reduction beyond what would have occurred without trading, assuring permanence for offset-generating projects, preventing leakage of emissions-generating activities from protected project areas, monitoring, and reporting requirements are problematic. As with previous reforms that also rely on market allocation and expansion of private property rights, GHG trading deflects change in the social relations of production required for more sustainable production while commodifying access to the atmosphere and nature's ability to recycle carbon. Alternatives to this modern-day GHG indulgence system are considered, especially an upstream carbon tax, designed to force change in energy procurement and use. Although we found that most of the conditions required for the efficient operation of the international GHG markets are not being met thus far, further changes in the trading systems are being made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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3. Congressional Consent Under the Compact Clause: Plugging the Leaks in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Hupp, Margaret C.
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *GAS leakage , *EMISSIONS trading , *GOVERNMENT policy , *GREENHOUSE gases ,ENVIRONMENTAL aspects - Abstract
The United States faces a potential turning point in the relationship between state and federal regulation of environmental issues. With the election of President Barack Obama, who has signaled a commitment to taking action in the area of carbon emissions regulation, the national government may step into an arena where the states are already playing, setting up a federalism debate to determine the better actor to enact meaningful and efficient environmental protection. Effectiveness in this area depends on the balance between quick enactment to prevent increased emissions (and further harm) and the comprehensiveness required to address this national and global issue. This Comment examines the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to illustrate how the use of a seldom-examined constitutional tool-consent under the Compact Clause-could enable states to form efficient and effective regional regulatory schemes that could be meaningful units within the greater system of federalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
4. An Evaluation of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme in Practice.
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Kelly, Gerard H.
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ENVIRONMENTAL impact charges , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *POLLUTION & economics , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *CARBON dioxide , *EMISSIONS trading , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *GREENHOUSE gases - Abstract
This paper offers an appreciation of the complex detail of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme and the complications encountered in linking such a scheme across 25 Member States before examining the scheme, with a view to ascertaining its potential business consequences and flirt her developments to the scheme which may occur in the months and years ahead. The author concludes that it is safe to assume that the scheme is here to stay and that it will make a valuable contribution to cutting CO2 emissions and meeting the EU'S Kyoto obligations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
5. The EU Emission Trading Directive.
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Mortensen, Bent Ole Gram
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EMISSIONS trading , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL engineering - Abstract
The introduction of a European emission trading scheme is a major step in handling the Kyoto Protocol's demand for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The EU concept is based on grandfathering. A linking directive including the use of the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol is expected to be sisued. Thereby the cap will not be tight and there will be a risk of trade in hot air. Having established the background the author looks at the concept of quotas; sets out the scope of the Emission Trading Directive; examines national quotas; considers allocation of quotas and pooling, queries the issue of allocation as state aid; ponders other treaty infringements; suggests the position in relation to tradability; describes the likely position in relation to periodical split, surrendering and monitoring; and outlines joint implementation and the clean development mechanism, before making some concluding comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
6. GREENHOUSE GAS TRADING IN EUROPE.
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Kruger, Joseph A. and Pizer, William A.
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EMISSIONS trading , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *EMISSIONS trading laws , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *AIR quality , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact charges , *POLLUTION control costs , *CLIMATE change , *AIR pollution , *GREENHOUSE gases , *CLIMATOLOGY , *GLOBAL temperature changes - Abstract
Discusses how Europe will launch an updated emissions trading program for greenhouse gases in 2005 which is much larger and more complex than the U.S. effort. Role of market-based policies in environmental regulation and in the formation of future European and international climate change policies; Consideration of the plans for the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to address global climate change implement a more consistent trading program among nations; Innovations regarding provisions that provide flexibility in monitoring and compliance; Difficulty associated with the preparation and review of National Allocation Plans; Use of auctions in the distribution of tradable emissions allowances in the U.S. INSETS: EUROPEAN UNION TERMINOLOGY;KEY FEATURES OF EU ETS;EFFECTIVE EMISSIONS TRADING PROGRAMS: A VIEW FROM THE ECONOMICS;SUMMARY OF U.S. TRADING PROGRAMS
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- 2004
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7. Emissions trading as a new dimension to European environmental law: the political agreement of the European Council on greenhouse gas allowance trading.
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Peeters, Marjan
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EMISSIONS trading , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
On 9 December 2002 the (Environment) Council of the European Union unanimously agreed on a common position on a Commission's proposal for a Directive establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading. This follows the idea that a common European emissions trading system should be preferred above a collection of national emissions trading systems. The European framework for emissions trading needs to he filled in by the Member States. One of their main tasks will be to allocate the greenhouse gas allowances according to a National Allocation Plan. The use of new regulatory instruments as emissions trading will raise new legal questions, which not always can be foreseen before the real application of the instrument in practice. It does not seem to he that the relevant institutions in the European Community already have a clear insight in all the necessary provisions for a well-functioning and just emissions trading, scheme. Especially the allocation of the tradable emissions rights can be questioned. With the present criteria, the allocation of the transferable rights will likely be a complicated and probably time-consuming task for the national governments. The European politicians seem to be willing, to take this risk with emissions trading, in order to build experience [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
8. A U.S. Dialogue Heard around the World.
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Kjellén, Bo
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CLIMATE change , *CLIMATOLOGY , *GLOBAL temperature changes , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *GREENHOUSE gases , *AIR pollution , *EMISSIONS trading , *AIR quality , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact charges , *POLLUTION & economics - Abstract
Presents a report on the Climate Policy reports at the Aspen Institute's Climate Change Policy Dialogue which occurred during November 2003. How the report was commissioned by the Pew Center and was issued to participants in May 2003 under the title Designing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program; Introduction of the report by Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Change; Controversies surrounding the Kyoto mechanisms and emissions trading practices; Focus of the report on a U.S. unilateral mandatory scheme to be launched outside the Kyoto Protocol; Efficiency of U.S. action on climate change.
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- 2004
9. New NAPs Criticized.
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GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *EMISSIONS trading - Abstract
Discusses the National Allocation Plan (NAP) which aims to distribute greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowances to regulated industries in European Union (EU) countries. Use of emission allowances in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme; European Commission's assessment of NAP from several member states prior to summer recess.
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- 2004
10. Tracking Climate Change.
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Parris, Thomas M.
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CLIMATE change , *CLIMATOLOGY , *GLOBAL temperature changes , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *GREENHOUSE gases , *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation , *POLLUTION prevention , *EMISSIONS trading , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *AIR quality , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact charges , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *POLLUTION & economics , *POLLUTION control costs - Abstract
Presents observations about the international efforts to track climate change and instill laws which protect the environment. Consideration of how Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; How the goals of the convention were to set framework for intergovernmental efforts to fight the challenges of climate change; Ways in which the Kyoto Protocol would reduce developed-country greenhouse gas emissions by at least 4 percent; Details provided on the laws at the UNFCCC Web site.
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- 2004
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11. The Rapid EU Process: Causes and Consequences.
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Wettestad, Jørgen
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EMISSIONS trading , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *GREENHOUSE gases , *GLOBAL warming , *ENVIRONMENTAL law - Abstract
This commentary discusses the European Union's Emissions Trading system. In their very instructive and useful overview of the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), "Greenhouse Gas Trading in Europe: The New Grand Policy Experiment," Joseph A. Kruger and William A. Pizer note that implementation of the system has been an impressively rapid process. They indicate that a main factor for understanding the character and speed of this process is the constructive use of lessons from U.S. trading programs by EU decisionmakers. The EU's high-speed decision-making process in constructing the emissions trading system can basically be understood and explained by a combination and interaction of three perspectives. First, the EU system was more ripe and ready for emissions trading when the process started in 1998 than may be readily apparent. Second, the European Commission (the Commission), the formal EU agenda-setter, played an extraordinarily strong entrepreneurial role throughout the development of the system, which sped up the process. Third, there is the perspective of the lessons learned from the U.S. emissions trading experience, as emphasized by Kruger and Pizer.
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- 2004
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12. Emission impossible.
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Wahl, Andrew
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EMISSIONS trading , *CANADIANS , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *AIR pollution , *POLLUTION , *GASES , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) - Abstract
This article focuses on the efforts of Canada to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emission credits. Steve Teller is a man whose job is on hold. He's project manager of the Canadian Climate Exchange, a company that the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange formed two years ago to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emissions credits, which corporations will be able to buy and sell in order to meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. There is a small swarm of brokers, consultants, fledgling exchanges and other entrepreneurial companies expecting that Canada's Kyoto commitments--to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012--will spawn a new industry around the trading of emission credits. A trading system gives businesses that face pollution restrictions the choice of paying the government for credits, subsidizing emission reduction projects elsewhere, or paying for internal measures that reduce emissions, whichever is cheaper. These are companies in the electricity generation, oil and gas, mining and heavy manufacturing industries, which together are expected to produce about half of Canada's total greenhouse-gas emissions by 2010. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect on Feb. 16, and yet Canada's plan to meet its steep--some say impossible--emission reduction obligations is still not fully known.
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- 2005
13. European Union Council Adopts Linking Directive.
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GREENHOUSE gases , *EMISSIONS trading , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation on environmental policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL law - Abstract
Reports on the European Union (EU) Council's adoption of a"linking directive" which establish a scheme for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowance trading within the European Community. Linking of the Kyoto Protocol flexible mechanism of Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS); Terms under the ETS Directive.
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- 2004
14. Riding along the clean-car corridor.
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Cooney, Catherine M.
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EMISSIONS trading , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *AIR pollution laws - Abstract
The article reports that in May 2005, Washington became the ninth U.S. state to adopt vehicle tailpipe standards that are tougher than the federal government's. Washington's standards would not go into effect until Oregon approves the low-emission vehicle (LEV) rules for its automobiles, which could happen in the next few years. More controversial is California's update of its LEV-II rules in September 2004 which addresses greenhouse gases. LEV supporters are delighting in what they call the creation of clean-car corridor.
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- 2005
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15. United Kingdom Analyzes NAPs.
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GREENHOUSE gases , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *EMISSIONS trading - Abstract
Discusses the "Interim Report on National Allocation Plans" (NAP), released by Ecofys, a consulting company within the Ecoconcern Group specializing in energy savings and renewable energy solutions. Study of NAP submitted to the European Commission by the end of July 2004; Greenhouse gas emission rates set by the NAP.
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- 2004
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