Joint Implementation to Curb Climate Change

Legal and Economic Aspects

Onno J. Kuik, Paul Peters, Nico Schrijver (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4399-3 (ISBN)

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This book is about joint implementation. It addresses legal, economic and institutional questions which should be taken into account in setting up joint implementation projects and in developing criteria for joint implementation under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). First, however, before going into any detail, we shall briefly sketch the background, quoting Daniel Bodansky: 'Each year, mankind injects approximately six billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, as well as a substantial (although still uncertain) amount from deforestation. Since the advent of the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have risen by more than twenty five percent, from 280 to more than 350 parts per million. Scientists estimate that if current patterns of emissions continue unchecked, the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide, together with parallel increases in other trace gases such as methane and nitrous oxide, will cause an average global warming in the range of 0. 2 to 0. 5 °C per decade, or 2 to 5 oc by the end of the next century. Such a temperature rise, more rapid than at any time in human history, could have severe effects on coastal areas, agriculture, forests 1 and human health. ' In recent years there has been growing awareness of the extent of the damage done to the world's environment through unsustainable patterns of development.

I Joint Implementation from an International Law Perspective.- II Putting Joint Implementation into Practice.- 2 Economic Aspects.- 3 Joint Implementation Projects between the Netherlands and Poland.- 4 Summary and Conclusions on Joint Implementation: Making It Work.- Annex 1 Joint implementation in discussion by Roebijn Heintz.- Annex 2 Status of ratification of the Convention.- Annex 3 Text of relevant provisions of the Climate Change Convention.- Annex 4 Basic principles of Polish environmental policy.- Annex 5 Additional GHG ‘costs’ of projects.- Annex 6 Polish Environmental Assessment.

Reihe/Serie	Environment & Policy ; 2
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 214 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	90-481-4399-3 / 9048143993
ISBN-13	978-90-481-4399-3 / 9789048143993
Zustand	Neuware