The World Heritage Convention and Climate Change: The Case for a Climate-Change Mitigation Strategy beyond the Kyoto Protocol

2009 ◽  
pp. 255-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica J. Thorson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Mitigation Strategy ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
The World ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals The Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting Reforestation Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véra Ehrenstein ◽  
Fabian Muniesa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Carbon Offsetting ◽  
The World ◽  
Prospective Assessment ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subjected to what we call “counterfactual display”: the production and circulation of documents that demonstrate and con!gure the counterfactual valuation. We present a case study on one carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We analyse the construction of the scene that allows the “What would have happened” question to make sense and become actionable. We highlight the operations of calculative framing that this requires, the reality constraints it relies upon, and the entrepreneurial conduct it stimulates.

First-mover advantages of the European Union's climate change mitigation strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 814-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Karkatsoulis ◽  
Pantelis Capros ◽  
Panagiotis Fragkos ◽  
Leonidas Paroussos ◽  
Stella Tsani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategy ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
First Mover

Conservation agriculture as a climate change mitigation strategy in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Deb O’Dell ◽  
Neal S. Eash ◽  
Bruce B. Hicks ◽  
Joel N. Oetting ◽  
Thomas J. Sauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Mitigation Strategy ◽  
Change Mitigation

Carbon Reduction in the Post-Kyoto era. Have we progressed? A comparison

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Bruno Zeller ◽  
Michael Longo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
The World ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
The Eu

In a fragmented global environment, the efforts of state and non-state actors are important in assessing the state of play on climate change mitigation actions around the world. This article will consider from a comparative perspective the various legislative models for addressing climate change and the reduction of GHG emissions with particular focus on the EU, USA, Australia and Switzerland. As legal developments are not limited to legislative schemes, this article will examine the voluntary carbon offset market and other trade related solutions to GHG emissions which have emerged in the absence of mandatory limitation systems. Also warranting attention are the actions of private parties in common law jurisdictions to bring legal proceedings against power companies for damage caused by climate change. Together, these developments demonstrate that climate change abatement is not the sole remit of the legislature.

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