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Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Articles
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Gas flaring in developing countries – need for kyoto mechanisms or sectoral crediting mechanisms?
Gas flaring is a phenomenon that is wasteful in terms of valuable resources as well as a contributor to global GHG emissions, and occurs mostly in developing countries. It can only be mitigated through long-term and strategic investments, involving ...
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Proposals on carbon-related border adjustments: prospects for wto compliance
Recently the practice of border adjustment in international trade has attracted much interest in the context of climate change. The risk of carbon leakage, the competitive disadvantage of industries in countries introducing a cap on emissions and ...
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Renewable energy from the ocean and tides: A viable renewable energy resource in search of a suitable regulatory framework
Ocean energy technology involves a range of engineering technologies that are able to obtain energy from the ocean using a variety of conversion mechanisms. Over the past few years there has been significant progress towards the development of ...
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Enhancing the role of the CDM in accelerating low-carbon technology transfers to developing countries
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in its present form concentrates on single projects, mostly in isolation of the host country’s national and technological context. CDM project patterns largely follow those of foreign direct investments, ...
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Maximum carbon intensity limitations and the agreement on technical barriers to trade
Emission of greenhouse gases is a global problem. Any nation seeking to restrict such emissions by its manufacturers should avoid putting them at a disadvantage in world and domestic markets where they are likely to compete with producers that do ...
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Climate change and the international trade of biofuels
This paper explores the significant role that biofuels have in mitigating greenhouse gases, especially in the transportation sector. The paper focuses specifically on the benefits of the use of ethanol and biodiesel and the emergence of their ...
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Will the “Friends of Climate” emerge in the WTO? The prospects of applying the “Fisheries Subsidies” model to energy subsidies
Notwithstanding the potential virtues of subsidies in certain circumstances, this form of government intervention in markets mainly through financial or fiscal means may have huge negative impacts in addition to the effects on efficiency and trade. ...
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The programmatic approach to CDM: Benefits for energy efficiency projects
With a view to enhance Energy Efficiency in the project portfolio, this paper discusses new approaches to the CDM that aim at reducing transaction costs. After a brief description of earlier approaches, the recently adopted Programmes of Activities ...