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Lessons for California from the EU Emissions Trading System
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Date: October 11, 2012Download the Environmental Defense Fund report – The EU Emissions Trading System: Results and Lessons Learned -
Innovation is not enough: Why polluters must pay
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Date: March 12, 2012
Source: Yale Environment 360Gernot Wagner argues we must also cap emissions or put a price on carbon in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. -
Naomi Klein is half right: Distorted markets are the real problem
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Date: March 14, 2012
Source: GristGernot Wagner responds to Naomi Klein's claim that free markets won't solve the climate crisis. -
The rebound effect in a more fuel efficient transportation sector [PDF]
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Date: January 23, 2012
Source: Institute for Policy IntegrityReview of existing research on the rebound effect in the transportation sector with framework for policymakers and suggestions for future research. -
For young graduates, the case for economics
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Date: January 3, 2012
Source: The Washington PostEDF economist Gernot Wagner makes the case that recent graduates should pursue careers in economics. -
Improving the effectiveness of climate finance: A survey of leveraging methodologies
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Date: December 1, 2011This starting point to understand what is meant by leveraging offers guidance on creating a single methodology for more universal assessment. -
Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Finance
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Date: November 23, 2011Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Finance -
Cost Containment Through Offsets in the Cap-and-Trade Program Under California's Global Warming Solutions Act
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Date: August 1, 2011Outlines results of economic modeling on the effect offsets will have on allowance prices in California's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. -
Cool It
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Date: August 31, 1996Article from The Economist which examines how to make emissions standards more cost-effective. -
Climate policy: hard problem, soft thinking (Working paper)
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Date: March 24, 2011Policy makers can and must try to overcome inherent psychological barriers and create pockets of certainty that link benefits of climate policy to loc -
Linking reduced deforestation and a global carbon market
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Date: January 1, 2011This article in Environment and Development Economics finds that market linkage of reducing emissions from deforestation induces modest reductions in -
AGF Report Climate Finance Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet
Date: November 24, 2010Summary of options for generating $100 billion in climate finance by 2020. -
Sectoral Crediting: Getting governance right from the beginning
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Date: October 26, 2010From the Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2010. Several pathways lead into a low-carbon, high-efficiency future. Properly designed -
Energy Content of World Trade
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Report
Date: August 12, 2010Constructs a comprehensive dataset of oil and total energy embedded in world trade of manufacturing goods for 73 countries from 1978 to 2000. -
Turn Toward Climate Safety
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Fact Sheet
Date: November 30, 2009Lays out a set of principal building blocks that need to be put in place for the turn toward climate safety and shows how to generate sufficient finan -
Clearing the air on EU’s carbon market
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Fact Sheet
Date: July 9, 2009The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's first mandatory cap-and-trade program for CO2 emissions. This fact sheet describes -
Docking into a global carbon market
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Report
Date: March 17, 2009Financing the transition to low-carbon economic development must be the focus of any framework to encourage developing countries’ participation in the -
The Clear Path: Rewarding Early Actions by Emerging Economies to Limit Carbon
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Report
Date: January 13, 2009EDF proposes a new framework in Poznan that would encourage emerging economies to cap greenhouse gas emissions as part of their participation in a pos -
Cap and trade 101
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Fact Sheet
Date: March 20, 2009Behind cap and trade lies a simple idea: the market can be a powerful tool for achieving environmental progress. -
REDD document library
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Legislative Analysis
Date: November 29, 2009Collection of key documents on the REDD program.
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