One common consensus reached by all parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is that global warming is happening and needs to be addressed. However, with this is the dilemma of how to set standards that are common yet differentiated. For instance, should nations like China that currently out-produce the United States […]
Absolute vs Intensity Emission Targets Since the earliest stages of climate change negotiations, methods for making emissions cutbacks have been a subject of hot debate. Absolute caps, which would establish national, legally-binding emission goals, are the most well-known and environmentally effective system, however developing countries have recently pushed for intensity targets instead, insisting that […]
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The role trade will play in the post-Kyoto climate negotations has yet to been fully determined. Efforts have been made to reduce GHG emissions through trade, but many questions about the range and form of finance and investment for innovation, adaptation, and technology transfer remain. For our group’s key issue paper I focused on the […]
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REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) has the potential to be an amazing program, but only with strategic planning as well as careful management. While there are many benefits to the conservation of forest, a type of carbon sink which sequesters a large amout of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, there are certain issues […]
As Grace, Luan and I discovered as we researched Flexibility Mechanisms, the number of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in Africa is dismally small when compared the number of projects in countries like China, India and Brazil. However, it seems like this trend may be changing. The UN just released a report that suggests the […]
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