Buying environmental insurance: Prospects for trading of global climate-protection services

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel N. Swisher ◽  
Gilbert M. Masters
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Protection

Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy / Sekundäre Nutzen der Klimapolitik

2004 ◽  
Vol 224 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Markandya ◽  
Dirk T.G. Rübbelke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Ancillary Benefits ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Reduction Cost

SummaryThe benefits of climate policy normally consist exclusively of the reduced impacts of climate change, i.e., the policy’s primary aim. Our analysis of benefits of climate policy suggests, however, that researchers and policymakers should also take account of ancillary benefits, e.g., in the shape of improved air quality induced by climate protection measures. A consideration of both, primary and ancillary benefits, has a positive influence on global climate protection efforts, e.g., because the regional impact of ancillary effects attenuates easy-riding motives of countries with respect to their provision of climate protection. In this article, we analyze the nature of ancillary benefits, present an overview of European assessment studies and explain possible methods to estimate ancillary benefits. Main differences between primary and ancillary benefits are pointed out. Furthermore, we stress the major influences of ancillary benefits on climate policy. Finally, we present one of the first models integrating primary and ancillary benefits. By this model quantitative results are calculated with respect to ancillary benefits in the UK considering different greenhouse gas (GHG) control levels. It is observed that the ancillary benefits could cover about 4 percent of the full GHG reduction cost.

The Participation of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission in the Process of Concluding International Agreements on Climate Protection

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Joanna Bukowska ◽  
Piotr Świat ◽  
Anna Sosnowska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
External Action ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Climate Protection Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Abstract For many years the European Union has aspired to be the leader of global climate protection policy. By setting increasingly ambitious challenges in its efforts against global warming, the EU has tried to encourage other countries to compete in this field at international level. In this article, the authors present the roles of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission in the process of concluding international agreements on climate protection. The division of competences between the two institutions is important in the situation when the agreements are concluded within Union’s non-exclusive competence such as the one in the field of environmental protection. In case of such agreements both the Union and its Member States are contracting parties. However, not only the division of competences is at the centre of the EU external action, but also the development of appropriate solutions that will ensure the effective achievement of climate policy objectives.

Applying student-generated theories about global change and energy demand

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 258-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Highly Nonlinear

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how learning technology could be applied to the development of educational tools for global climate change. The task to be performed in an informed dialogue is to assess the causes and drivers for global climate change and to produce an improved basis of scientific understanding for the implementation of the climate protection targets suggested for each country. By character, this approach integrates the political and the scientific level. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies learning theories and options for educational technologies to socio-economic, technological, biospheric, political and scientific themes relevant to present climate change. Findings – Drivers, effects and subsequent measures are subject to highly nonlinear effects. Thus, the combination of a (scientific, fact based) “Global Change Data Base” and a (dialogic, communication based) discourse (in the spirit of “Surfing Global Change”) seems best suitable to produce solutions for the seemingly unresolvable issues of climate protection. This combination of approaches is entitled “Tackle the Task of a Transition through Technological Targets (T5)” and allows the application of hypotheses generated by students in a scaffolded setting of discursive learning. Social implications – Suggestions for CO2 abatement measures are currently passing the process of political negotiation in all countries in the world. The different views and patterns of ethical values are harmonised during the T5 learning process and symbolise the required political process of consensus finding among and between different ministries, countries and global interest groups. Originality/value – This approach includes social and natural driving factors such as population, land use, economics, politics, energy systems, the global carbon cycle, biosphere and climate, and thus offers a more comprehensive learning endeavour than many other approaches.

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