Improving energy-efficiency is essential to any strategy to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). New generations of household appliances are becoming ever more energy-efficient due to continuing technological advances, often spurred by government policies.
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.
Could trade policy measures enable a rapid dissemination of sustainable energy goods and services, given the reality of the widespread use of both fossil-fuel subsidies as well as clean-energy incentives?
This paper analyses the existing legal frameworks within which a possible Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) could be negotiated to address energy-related trade governance and the resulting legal challenges and opportunities.
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) and the The Graduate Institute Geneva - Centre for International Environmental Studies are hosting an event on 'Clean energy subsidies and the global trading system".
China’s introduction of a national ETS, scheduled for 2017, is an important development in the expanding carbon market landscape.
This study analyses trends and opportunities for trade among developing countries (i.e.
This OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper surveys the numerous domestic incentives used by governments to promote renewable energy, focusing on those that might have implications for trade - both those that are likely to increase opportunities for trade and those that may inhibit imports or p
Climate change is an unprecedented challenge facing humanity today, one that requires a quick and concerted response.