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September 2014

Green Growth: A U.S. Program for Controlling Climate Change and Expanding Job Opportunities

Center for American Progress, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
This report quantifies the level of investment required for the United States to align emissions reductions with international goals in an economically beneficial and technically feasible manner.
February 2020

Features and Prospect of China’s National GHG Emissions Trading Scheme

This report explores the contextual factors that influence the design of China’s national emissions trading scheme (ETS) and affect its performance.
June 2011

Interactions between Emission Trading Systems and other Overlapping Policy Instruments

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

This paper discusses interactions that can occur when a cap-and-trade based emission trading system is combined with overlapping policy instruments (environmentally related taxes, subsidies, ‘command-and-control regulations, information instruments, etc.), addressing emissions stemming from the s

August 2017

Bush Control Generates Economic and Environmental Benefits in Namibia

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) case study of Namibian highlights the economic and environmental benefits of bush control on national and local level.
19 December 2018
Online

Clean Air for All - reducing transport-related emissions with legal action

On 19 December 2018 (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CET), the Energy Future Exchange is hosting a webinar on "Clean Air for All - reducing transport-related emissions with legal action".
April 2014

Auction Mechanisms for Allocating Subsidies for Carbon Emissions Reduction: An Experimental Investigation

Environment for Development Initiative (EfD)

One method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to subsidize emissions-reducing activities. The question is how to allocate such subsidies. Allocation through auctions is an emerging mechanism.

24 March 2020

CERES Webinar - Mobilizing Finance for a Net Zero Emissions Economy

Ceres
On the 24th March 2020 at 17:00 - 18:00 (CET) Ceres, the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations Office for Partnerships are co-hosting a webinar on 'Mobilizing Finance for a Net Zero Emissions Economy'.
December 2020

Whole-System Zero-Emissions Demonstration: China’s Vision on Future Green Urbanization

This report introduces a new concept — Whole-System Zero-Emissions Demonstration (WS-ZED). The WS-ZED concept goes one step further than net-zero carbon and proposes a broader concept to reveal the added value of synergy among net-zero carbon, net-zero waste, and net-zero pollution. This new concept aims to resolve these growth challenges by adopting a holistic approach to put in place urban management policies to combat both climate change and environmental degradation.

Emissions Trading Scheme

Organisation: 
Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
Country: 
Republic of Korea

This paper, Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin: Emissions Trading Scheme, introduced the operation of the Korean Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Korea's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to increase over the decades.

November 2019

Emissions Gap Report 2019

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report provides an independent scientific assessment of how countries’ climate pledges and actions are affecting the global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) trend, comparing it with the emission reductions necessary to limit global warming to well below 2°C and 1.5°C in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

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