Four System Boundaries for Carbon Accounts
Knowing the carbon emission baseline of a region is a precondition for any mitigation effort, but the baselines are highly dependent on the system boundaries for which they are calculated.
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Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation policy would impose significant economic costs on carbon-intensive industries, resulting in declining output
Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan
The challenge for the nation is to develop an efficient policy for reducing carbon emissions.
Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists, and draws a number of important lessons for future applicati
Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions
The emerging pledge and review approach to international climate policy provides countries with substantial discretion in how they craft their intended emission mitigation contributions.
Linkage of Regional, National, and Sub-National Policies in a Future International Climate Agreement
As international negotiations proceed towards COP21 in Paris in December 2015, a hybrid policy architecture is emerging under the 2011 Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, in which all countries will
Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation policy would impose significant economic costs on carbon-intensive industries, resulting in declining output
Impact of the Volkswagen Emissions Control Defeat Device on US Public Health
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has alleged that Volkswagen Group of America (VW) violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by developing and installing emissions control system 'defeat devices' (
Solar Geoengineering Using Solid Aerosol in the Stratosphere
Solid aerosol particles have long been proposed as an alternative to sulfate aerosols for solar geoengineering.
Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule that defines a broad and complicated set of standards for controlling carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from affected electricity generating units.
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