Greenhouse gas emissions trading and project-based mechanisms
Subtitle: proceedings, OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, Emissions Trading, CATEP Country Forum, 17-18 March 2003, Paris.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.; Concerted Action on Tradeable Emissions Permits.
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Emissions trading -- Congresses.; Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.; Sustainable development -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Papers from a forum hosted by OECD in conjunction with Concerted Action on Tradeable Emissions Permits (CATEP). The papers cover the experience of developing and transition countries with greenhouse gas emissions trading and project-based mechanisms and examine the use of tradeable permits in policy mixes and harmonisation of emissions trading schemes, as well as transition issues relating to greenhouse gas emissions trading markets.
Notes: Also available on the Internet.
Includes bibliographical references.
Papers from a forum hosted by OECD in conjunction with Concerted Action on Tradeable Emissions Permits (CATEP).
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction / Stephen Bygrave; title: Pt. I. Experience and lessons from emissions trading and project-based mechanisms in developing and transition countries: Implementing SO₂ emissions trading in China / Yang Jintian ... [et al.]. The state of development of national clean development mechanism offices in Central and South America / Liana Morera, Olga Cabeza and Thomas Black-Arbeláez. Establishing a national authority for the clean development mechanism: the Costa Rican experience / Paulo Manso. Implementing Kyoto-type flexibility mechanisms for India: problems and prospects / Shreekant Gupta. Choosing environmental policy instruments in the real world / Ruth Greenspan Bell. Building institutions to address air pollution in developing countries: the cap and trade approach / Joe Kruger, Katherine Grover, and Jeremy Schreifels; title: Pt. II. Tradeable permits in the policy mix and harmonisation of emissions trading schemes: Harmonisation between national and international tradeable permit schemes / Erik Haites. Efficient and effective use of tradeable permits in combination with other policy instruments / Nick Johnstone. Turning an early start into a false start: implications of the EU emissions trading directive for the UK climate change levy and climate change agreements / Steve Sorrell; title: Pt. III. Transition issues and areas for further work: on carbon prices and volumes in the evolving 'Kyoto market' / Michael Grubb. Political economy of tradeable permits: competitiveness, co-operation and market power / Frank J. Convery ... [et al.]. Monitoring, accounting and enforcement in emissions trading regimes / Sonja Peterson; title: Pt. IV. Summary: Experience with greenhouse gas emissions trading and project-based mechanisms in OECD and non-OECD countries / Stephen Bygrave.