scholarly journals THE THEORETICAL PAN-AFRICAN EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEM: A POLICY TOOL FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AIDING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICA.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1045-1056
Author(s):  
Avnish Roperia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Peel ◽  
Lee Godden ◽  
Rodney J. Keenan

AbstractAs international negotiations struggle to deliver timely, binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels, the environmental legal community has begun to contemplate the scope for climate governance ‘beyond’ the international climate change regime. Many see merit in a more decentralized, disaggregated approach, operating across multiple governance levels. This article examines the development of climate change law in an era of multi-level governance. It analyzes several case studies of current manifestations of multi-level governance in climate change law, including the fragmented global emissions trading system, developing arrangements governing forests and land-based sinks, the growth of climate litigation establishing transnational liability principles, efforts to ensure adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and the emergence in federal systems of a decentralized approach to climate change regulation. The article concludes by considering whether the emerging multi-level system of climate governance is adequate to meet broader international goals of climate change mitigation and adaptation.


Author(s):  
Sadegh Abedi ◽  
Mehrnaz Moeenian

Abstract Sustainable economic growth and identifying factors affecting it are among the important issues which have always received attention from researchers of different countries. Accordingly, one of the factors affecting economic growth, which has received attention from researchers in the developed countries over recent years, is the issue of environmental technologies that enter the economic cycle of other countries after being patented through technology transfer. The current research investigated the role of the environment-related patents and the effects of the patented technological innovations compatible with climate change mitigation on the economic growth and development in the Middle East countries within a specific time period. The required data were gathered from the valid global databases, including Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Bank and have been analyzed using multi-linear regression methods and econometric models with Eviews 10 software. The obtained results with 95% confidence level show that the environmental patents (β = 0.02) and environment management (β = 0.04) and technologies related to the climate change mitigation (β = 0.02) have a significant positive impact on the sustainable economic development and growth rate in the studied countries. Such a study helps innovators and policymakers in policy decisions related to sustainable development programs from the perspective of environmentally friendly technologies by demonstrating the role of patents in three important environmental areas, namely environmental management, water-related adaptation and climate change mitigation, as one of the factors influencing sustainable economic growth.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (Special Issue1) ◽  
pp. S159-S165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Nocera ◽  
Antonio Gagliano ◽  
Gianpiero Evola ◽  
Luigi Marletta ◽  
Alice Faraci

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
Markus Ehrmann ◽  
Dominik Greinacher

AbstractThe Allocation Act of the German Emissions Trading System offers an interesting 'transfer rule' which is unique in European Emissions Trading System: A plant operator may transfer the allocated emission allowances of a decommissioned facility to a new installation, if this installation replaces the old facility. Former Federal Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin stressed, that this rule provides a major incentive for the renewal of the German power plant fleet by the erection of highly efficient new facilities. These modernisation efforts could make a major contribution to climate protection efforts. It can thus be expected, that a similar rule will also be implemented in the recently discussed Allocation Act for the next allocation period 2008-2012. It is thus worth exploring the details for the application of this rule.


Author(s):  
Alicia Gutierrez González

AbstractThis article aims to give an overview of the international influence of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) in Mexico. It is divided into three parts. First, it briefly examines both the international Climate Change regime through the description of such instruments as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement, and the national regime by reviewing as the 2012 General Law on Climate Change (LGCC), the National Emissions Registry (RENE) and its Regulations, as well as other instruments regarding mitigation from carbon tax and clean energy. Second, it analyzes the legal framework of the pilot phase of the ETS in Mexico (under the cap and trade principle) which seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) only in the energy and industry sectors whose emissions are greater than 100 thousand direct tonnes of CO2. In doing so, it also explains the relevance of implementing an ETS as a cost-effective mitigation measure to achieve the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in order to reduce 22% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 (increasing to 36% if there is international support and financing) and 50% by 2050 as a developing country. Third, it focuses on the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) experience and shows that all its phases must be done gradually by adopting the learning-by-doing approach.


Author(s):  
Ilze Pruse

Abstract The goal of this paper is to analyse the volumes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the European Union Emissions Trading System’s (EU ETS) participants in Latvia in relation to their participation therein. After describing and discussing the EU ETS mechanism and its operation in Latvia in the period 2005-2010, the interconnectedness between the GHG emissions and the EU ETS participants’ operation is analysed. The analysis concludes that, although the EU ETS has contributed towards GHG emission reduction, due to the growth of the economy, overall GHG emissions from the EU ETS participants in Latvia are increasing.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Erik BAARK

China recognises the need to reduce carbon emissions in order to avoid negative consequences from climate change in the future. Therefore, the Chinese government initiated seven emissions trading system (ETS) pilots in 2013 and began to develop China’s national ETS in 2017. However, Chinese efforts to implement ETS have encountered legal, institutional and political issues that must be solved so that a national ETS could help to mitigate emissions in China.


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