Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1198 g
Making Kyoto Work
Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1198 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927961-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The first protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in Kyoto in 1997 and entered into force in February 2005. It is a unique international law instrument which sets legally binding targets for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change. The targets are unprecedented in an environmental agreement and will involve substantial financial commitment in virtually all industrialized country parties to the protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is also the first international agreement to include economic instruments which are designed to involve private sector entities and assist parties to meet their targets. These economic instruments, known as the Kyoto or flexible mechanisms, are Joint Implementation (JI), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and International Emissions Trading.
The Kyoto Protocol defined these mechanisms but did not set out the details necessary for their operation. After protracted negotiations, detailed rules were finalized at the Seventh Session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties held in Marrakech in 2001. The Marrakech Accords run to almost 250 pages but still leave many important practical issues unaddressed. As the 2008-2012 commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol draws close more and more projects under CDM and JI are being developed to take advantage of the Kyoto mechanisms and the key issues and problems are now becoming more apparent.
Drawing on the emerging body of expertise in this complex area, this book conveys a knowledge of what is becoming known as 'Carbon Finance'. It thereby aims to contribute to the development of the market for carbon emission reductions - one of the objectives of the Kyoto mechanisms.
Zielgruppe
Lawyers, international and national civil servants, ministries of environment and foreign affairs, scholars and postgraduate students of international environmental law and policy.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- I. Introduction
- 1: David Freestone: The International Climate Change Legal and Institutional Framework: An Overview
- II. General Issues
- 2: Thiago Chagas, Matthieu Wermaere and Charlotte Streck: Legal Ownership and Nature of Kyoto Units and EU Allowances
- 3: Alan Cook: Accounting for Emission Reductions: From Costless Activity to Market Operations
- 4: Markus Gehring and Marie-Claire Cordonnier Segger: Trade and Investment Implications of Carbon Trading for Sustainable Development
- 5: Michael Mehling: Linking of Emissions Trading Schemes
- 6: Jolene Lin: Private Actors in International and Domestic Emissions Trading Schemes
- III. The Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms
- 7: Sander Simonetti and Rutger de Witt Wijnen: International Emissions Trading and Green Investment Schemes
- 8: Jelmer Hoogzaad and Charlotte Streck: Taking Stock of Joint Implementation
- 9: Anthony Hobley and Carly Roberts: The Practicalities of Contracting JI Transactions
- 10: Maria Netto and Kai-Uwe Barani Schmidt: CDM and the Role of the UNFCCC Secretariat
- 11: Matthias Krey and Heike Santen: Trying to catch up with the Executive Board - regulatory decision-making and its impact on CDM performance
- 12: Axel Michaelowa: Interpreting the Additionality of CDM Projects: Changes in Definitions and Regulatory Practices over Time
- 13: Christina Voigt: Responsibility for the Environmental Integrity of the CDM: Judicial Review of Executive Board Decisions
- 14: Martijn Wilder and Louisa Fitz-Gerald: Carbon Contracting
- 15: Andrew Hedges: The Secondary Market for Emissions trading: Balancing Market design and Market Based Transactions
- IV. Carbon Trading outside Kyoto: Regional Schemes
- 16: Markus Pohlmann: The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
- 17: Navraj Singh Ghaleigh: Emissions Trading before the European Court of Justice: Market Making in Luxembourg
- V. Carbon Trading outside Kyoto: National and Sub-National Schemes
- 18: K Russell LaMotte, David M (Max) Williamson and Lauren A Hopkins: Emissions Trading in the US: Legal Issues
- 19: Kyle Danish Van Ness: Off-set provisions in emerging US Cap and Trade Programmes
- 20: Martijn Wilder and Louisa Fitz-Gerald: Carbon Markets and Policy in Australia: Recent Developments
- 21: Gray E Taylor and Michael R Barrett: Canada's Experience in Emissions Trading and Related Legal issues
- 22: Christopher Tung: Carbon Law and Practice in China
- VI.Voluntary Markets
- 23: Michelle Passero: The Voluntary Carbon Market: Its Growth and Outstanding Legal and Policy Issues
- VII. Post Kyoto: Moving towards Copenhagen
- 24: Murray Ward: What might a Future Global Climate Change Deal look like?
- 25: Jos Cozijnsen and Michael Coren: The Role of Project-Based Mechanisms in a Future Carbon Market
- 26: Christiana Figueres and Charlotte Streck: A Post-2012 Vision for the Clean Development Mechanism
- 27: Bob O'Sullivan and Rick Saines: International Market Solutions to Protect Tropical Rainforest
- Aviation and Climate Change Regulation
- VIII. Summary and Outlook
- 29: David Freestone and Charlotte Streck: Summary and Outlook
