Moving towards low-carbon, high-efficiency energy systems, mitigating climate change, securing energy supplies, and resolving the imbalance of payments caused by energy imports, are impending problems that nations worldwide are striving hard to resolve.
A new working paper from the World Bank provides a framework to assess the desirability of green industrial policies, focusing on the effectiveness and political acceptability of price instruments.
On 23-24 February, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) brought together country representatives from Morocco and Kazakhstan as well as experts from various academic institutions in an interactive workshop in Geneva, Swit
The Durban conference decided to establish a new market based mechanism that is to cover a broad segment of a country’s economy. The question is, however, which developing countries would actually be able to implement such a mechanism.
This report looks at potential options for curbing emissions from international aviation. It considers the environmental, economic and political consequences of potential market based mechanisms, and offers an overall assessment of climate policy in this sector.