The Kyoto Protocol And Its Economic Implications

Author : Dan Schaefer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788186019
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kyoto Protocol & Its Economic Implications written by Dan Schaefer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Congressional hearing on the Kyoto Protocol, on the costs of stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2010, & its possible economic implications to the U.S. Witnesses include: Stuart E. Eizenstat, Under Secretary for Economic Business & Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; & Janet Yellen, Chair, Council of Economic Advisors. Additional material submitted for the record: Hon. Dan Schaefer, letter dated March 26, 1998, to Hon. Janet Yellen, requesting material for the record, & submission of same.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kyoto Protocol and Its Economic Implications written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Murkowski
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0756701430
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, U.S. Senate written by Frank Murkowski and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing held on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, in which the administration agreed to legally binding obligations to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 7% below 1990 levels during the years 2008 to 2011. Witnesses: Sen. Daniel Akaka, Evan Bayh, Jeff Bingaman, Jim Bunning, Conrad Burns, Larry Craig, Peter Fitzgerald, Bob Graham, Chuck Hagel, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Frank Murkowski, & Craig Thomas; Jay Hakes, Admin., U.S. Energy Info. Admin.; Mary Novak, Energy Service, WEFA, Inc., Burlington, MA; Cecil Roberts, United Mine Workers of America; Margo Thorning, Amer. Council for Capital Formation; & Janet Yellen, Council of Economic Advisers.

Author : Christophe P. Vasser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604569834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kyoto Protocol written by Christophe P. Vasser and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the The Kyoto Protocol which is a significant protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change. It was adopted on 11 December 1997 by the 3rd Conference of the Parties, which was meeting in Kyoto, and it entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of June 2008, 182 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed cg countries (plus the EU as a party in its own right) are required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the levels specified for each of them in the treaty (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries), with three more countries intending to participate. One hundred thirty-seven (137) developing countries have ratified the protocol, including Brazil, China and India, but have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions. "The Kyoto Protocol" separates countries into two groups. Annex I includes developed nations, while Non-Annex I refers to developing countries. Emission limitations are only placed on Annex I countries. Non-Annex I nations participate by investing in projects that lower emissions in their own countries. For these projects, they earn carbon credits. These credits can be traded or sold to Annex I countries, which allow them a higher level of maximum carbon emissions for that period.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Kyoto Protocol And Its Economic Implications... Hearing... Serial No. 105-108... Committee On Commerce, U.S. House Of Representatives... 105th Congress, 2nd Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book UNFINISHED BUSINESS written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was completed on the morning of December 11, 1997, following over two years of negotiations. The product of these deliberations is a complex and incomplete document knitting together the diversity of interests and perspectives represented by the more than 150 delegations. Because the document is complex, its implications are not immediately obvious. If it enters into force, the Kyoto Protocol will have far-reaching implications for all nations--both nations with obligations under the Protocol and those without obligations. National energy systems, and the world's energy system, could be forever changed. In this paper the authors develop an assessment of the energy and economic implications of achieving the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. They find that many of the details of the Protocol that remain to be worked out introduce critical uncertainties affecting the cost of compliance. There are also a variety of uncertainties that further complicate the analysis. These include future non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of their mitigation. Other uncertainties include the resolution of negotiations to establish rules for determining and allocating land-use emissions rights, mechanisms for Annex 1 trading, and participation by non-Annex 1 members in the Clean Development Mechanism. In addition, there are economic uncertainties, such as the behavior of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in supplying emissions credits under Annex 1 trading. These uncertainties in turn could affect private sector investments in anticipation of the Protocol's entrance into force. The longer the nature of future obligations remains unclear, the less able decision makers will be to incorporate these rules into their investment decisions. They find that the cost of implementing the Protocol in the US can vary by more than an order of magnitude. The marginal cost could be as low as $26 per tonne of carbon if a global system of emissions mitigation could be quickly and effectively implemented. But it could also exceed $250 per tonne of carbon if the US must meet its emissions limitations entirely through domestic actions, and if mitigation obligations are not adequately anticipated by decision-makers.

Author : Sebastian Oberthür
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662039257
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kyoto Protocol written by Sebastian Oberthür and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century. After many years of involvement in the negotiation process, the book's two internationally recognised authors now offer the international community a first hand and inside perspective of the debate on the Kyoto Protocol. The book provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the history and content of the Protocol itself as well as of the economic, political and legal implications of its implementation. It also presents a perspective for the further development of the climate regime. These important features make this book an indispensable working tool for policy makers, negotiators, academics and all those actively involved and interested in climate change issues in both the developed and developing world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G. Victor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824060
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming written by David G. Victor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative. Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them. Kyoto's fatal flaw, Victor argues, is that it can work only if emissions trading works. The Protocol requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to specific targets. Crucially, the Protocol also provides for so-called "emissions trading," whereby nations could offset the need for rapid cuts in their own emissions by buying emissions credits from other countries. But starting this trading system would require creating emission permits worth two trillion dollars--the largest single invention of assets by voluntary international treaty in world history. Even if it were politically possible to distribute such astronomical sums, the Protocol does not provide for adequate monitoring and enforcement of these new property rights. Nor does it offer an achievable plan for allocating new permits, which would be essential if the system were expanded to include developing countries. The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol--which Victor views as inevitable--will provide the political space to rethink strategy. Better alternatives would focus on policies that control emissions, such as emission taxes. Though economically sensible, however, a pure tax approach is impossible to monitor in practice. Thus, the author proposes a hybrid in which governments set targets for both emission quantities and tax levels. This offers the important advantages of both emission trading and taxes without the debilitating drawbacks of each. Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics-from students to professionals--and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book.

Author : Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Warming written by Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive examination of the economic, social, and political context of climate policy in industrialized and developing nations. Calls for a multilateral approach that goes beyond the mitigation-focused Kyoto policies and stresses the importance of generating policies that work within a time frame commensurate with that of climate change itself"--Provided by publisher.