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Climate Change, Carbon Markets and the CDM: a Call to Action — Report of the...
U.N. High-Level Panel on the Clean Development Mechanism http://www.cdmpolicydialogue.org/ [From a Climate Wire story by Colin Sullivan, sub. req'd] The U.N. body in charge of the world’s largest...
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Climate Negotiations Open a Window: Key Implications of the Durban Platform...
Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Centers, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / This policy brief expands upon the Science article, “Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars” by...
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Follow the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting from 8 to 19 October...
Rio Convention Pavilion at CBD COP 11 http://www.riopavilion.org/india/ To follow via IISD: http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/cop11/pavilion/ [From Press Release] At the UN Convention on Biological Diversity...
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Evaluation of Progress Under the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive:...
European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/evaluation-progress-nec-2012 [From Summary] …The interim environmental objectives set in the NEC Directive for 2010 are broadly met —...
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Can New Market Mechanisms Mobilize Emissions Reductions from the Private Sector?
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Projecting Emissions Baselines for National Climate Policy: Options for...
OECD / by Christa Clapp and Andrew Prag http://www.oecd.org/env/climatechange/CCXG%20%282012%293%20National%20Baselines.pdf [From Summary] Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions baselines are reference...
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Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free Quota Allocations
World Bank / by Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand http://bit.ly/R944M3 This paper studies interactions between a “policy bloc’s” emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets...
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The Climate Implications of the Proposed Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline
Pembina Institute http://www.pembina.org/pub/2407 To help inform the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, this backgrounder features new analysis showing that producing enough bitumen to fill the...
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Treaty Design and Duration: Effects on R&D, Participation, and Compliance
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Bard Harstad http://bit.ly/UVG9QV Climate policy is complicated. For a treaty to be beneficial, one must think through carefully how it will work, once...
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A Climate Diplomacy Proposal: Carbon Pricing Consultations
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Adele Morris, Warwick McKibbin, Peter Wilcoxen http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/22794/climate_diplomacy_proposal.html The United...
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A Fair Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse: A Major Economies Forum...
Brookings Institution / by Timmons Roberts and Marco Grasso http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/04/04-climate-emissions-grasso-roberts …We suggest that taking three manageable steps to a fair...
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Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets
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The Role of Forests in a Future Climate Agreement
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Donna Lee http://hvrd.me/13RNof0 Forests can play a significant role in helping to avoid dangerous climate...
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Putting the Pieces Together for Good Governance of REDD+: An Analysis of 32...
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International Climate Change Financing: the Green Climate Fund
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The Next Step in Europe’s Climate Action: Setting Targets for 2030
Ecofys for Greenpeace http://bit.ly/16bZWzA [Business Green] The European Commission should aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions 55 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030 if it is to tackle the glut of...
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Drifting Toward Disaster? The ETS Adrift in Europe’s Climate Efforts
Sandbag (“The 2013 Environmental Outlook for the EU ETS”) http://bit.ly/1ad7cj4 [Business Green] The European Union’s carbon trading scheme has delivered a price of carbon that is so low that it risks...
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Assessing Countries’ Contributions to Climate Finance: First Steps
First Steps Toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF): Creating a Comparative Index to Assess International Climate Finance Contributions Brookings Institution |The Center for Global...
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Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance
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U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group Documents
US Dept. of State http://www.state.gov/e/oes/rls/pr/2013/211842.htm (Full Working Group report) http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/07/211768.htm (fact sheet) The United States and China have agreed...
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