In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Who stands where on the climate front UNITED STATES Rejected (and has singlehandedly sunk) the Kyoto Protocol. Wants India and China also to commit to emission cuts. Will have an emission cap-and-trade# regime. Plans to impose trade barriers against countries without a cap-and-trade system. Willing to cut emission by only …
Since the inception of the cap and trade model under the Kyoto Protocol, many environmentalists have argued it will do little to cut emissions, but will instead give companies permission to pollute while generating lucrative trading fees for the banks that trade the government-issued allowances which form the backbone of …
Americans support the idea of controlling emissions. In a poll published in October by the Pew Research Centre, 50per cent of those who had an opinion supported limits, compared with 39per cent against. Other polls have shown higher levels of support. But that apparent enthusiasm is qualified by a number …
China began the year with a certain amount of trepidation about the Copenhagen climate change talks. Two years ago, researchers calculated that China had become the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, overtaking the US. Environmental groups slammed the country
The climate challenge is so serious that all possible policy measures need to be considered. Currently however, there tends to be a focus on regulations and emissions trading as the main ways of reducing carbon emissions. The use of taxation seems to be ignored or forgotten.
At present the biofuels sector is going through turmoil and some analysts question whether biofuels will be able to keep their promises. The eventual outcome will depend on the policies that countries have already put in place and those that may be implemented in the future. The purpose of this …
In Climate Finance, a leading group of 35 policy experts and scholars show how effective mitigation of climate change will depend on a complex mix of public funds, private investment though carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. This requires sophisticated national and global regulation …
America will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has …
Ameria will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has …
Martin Hutchinson / November 13, 2009, 0:34 IST Carbon tax: The International Energy Agency is trying to put a price on global warming. In its new World Energy Outlook, the policy advisory group set out targets to reduce carbon emissions, and also calculated the carbon prices needed to achieve them. …
Developed countries are largely responsible for the climate change to date, but future responsibility is shared by developed and developing countries alike. Rapidly developing countries such as China with steeply rising emission curves must also actively participate in the much needed transition to a low-carbon economy. As the world
Concerns about expected increases in energy and other agricultural input costs have led some to oppose greenhouse gas cap-and-trade legislative proposals. However, these policies could result in significant revenue for U.S. agriculture, which is a potential source of low-carbon bioenergy and low-cost abatement alternatives to fossil fuel emission reductions (i.e., …
This article provides a critical missing piece to the global climate change governance puzzle: how to create incentives for the major developing countries to reduce carbon emissions. The major developing countries are projected to account for 80 percent of global emissions growth over the next several decades, and substantial reductions …
The Overseas Development Institute has reviewed the low carbon growth and climate change response strategies of a range of countries with differing economic characteristics to draw out the policy implications for developing countries at different stages of development. The study, financed by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), selected …
