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Title

Legal aspects of implementing the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms : making Kyoto work / edited by David Freestone and Charlotte Streck.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Freestone, David
• Streck, Charlotte.

Description

xlvii, 643 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on the emerging body of expertise in this complex area, this book conveys a knowledge of what is becoming known as 'Carbon Finance'. It thereby aims to contribute to the development of the market for carbon emission reductions - one of the objectives of the Kyoto mechanisms."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Climatic changes
• Global warming > Law and legislation
• Greenhouse gases > Law and legislation
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1997 December 11

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The UN framework convention on climate change, the Kyoto protocol, and the Kyoto mechanisms -- 2. Climate change in business -- 3. Legal ownership and nature of Kyoto units and EU allowances -- 4. Accounting for and taxation of emission allowances and credits -- 5. Public participation in CDM and JI projects -- 6. Joint implementation: history, requirements, and challenges -- 7. GHG emissions trading registries -- 8. Track on JI and 'greening of AAUs': how could it work? -- 9. CDM project cycle and the role of the UNFCCC secretariat -- 10. Keeping it clean-safeguarding the environmental integrity of the clean development mechanism -- 11. Meeting participating country responsibilities under the CDM: designating a national authority -- 12. Benefit sharing under the clean development mechanism -- 13. Can companies or entities from a non-party to the Kyoto protocol participate in the flexible mechanisms? -- 14. Generation of sequestration credits under the CDM -- 15. Specific features of land use, land-use change, and forestry transactions -- 16. Carbon contracts, structuring transactions: practical expericences -- 17. CERUPT and ERUPT contracts -- 18. Negotiating a JI contract: a project developer's perspective -- 19. Experiences with the clean development mechanism in India -- 20. World bank carbon finance business: contracts and emission reductions purchase transactions -- 21. Arbitration in 'Flexible-mechanism' contracts -- 22. Emissions trading under article 17 of the Kyoto protocol -- 23. The emissions trading scheme of the European Union -- 24. Implementing the European emissions trading directive in Germany -- 25. UK emissions trading schemes -- 26. Pollution permit trading in Chile -- 27. Emissions trading schemes in Australia -- 28. Canada's experience in emissions trading and participating in the Kyoto mechanism -- 29. Linking emissions trading schemes: the EU ETS and the 'Linking Directive'

ISBN

0199279616 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004023871

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library