1st Edition
Climate Change and Carbon Markets A Handbook of Emissions Reduction Mechanisms
Edited By Farhana Yamin
Copyright 2005
468 Pages
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Routledge
472 Pages
by
Routledge
468 Pages
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Routledge
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Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Change and Carbon Markets aims to provide an accessible and practical guide to cutting edge market-based mechanisms... Read more
List of Abbreviations * List of Figures, Tables and boxes * Foreword * Preface and Acknowledgements * About the Contributors * Introduction * Purpose * Structure of Book * The Nature of the Climate Change Problem * An Overview of the UNFCCC * An Overview of the Kyoto Protocol * An Overview of the Kyoto Mechanism * Part I: The International Rules on the Kyoto Mechanisms * Part 2: The EU Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Scheme * Part 3: Development and Implementation of the Kyoto Mechanisms Worldwide * Part 4: Conclusion: Mechanisms, Linkages and the Direction of the Future Climate Regime * Appendices: 1 Documents Relating to the EU Emisssion Allowance Trading Scheme * 2 EU Emission Allowance Trading Scheme Directive * 3 EU Directive 2004/101/EC * 4 EU Guidelines on Allocations of Allowances * Index
Biography
Farhana Yamin is a Fellow in Environment at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. She is an international lawyer specializing in climate change law and policy. She is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, former Legal Advisor to AOSIS and consultant to the European Commission on the EU Emissions Allowance Trading Directive. Her other publications include The International Climate Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures.
