Climate policy

ICE, Inc. International Climate Policy, Inc (2009). GHG Protocol HFC Tool (Version 1.0), World Resources Initiative, http //www.wri.org (accessed 23.10.10). 

In the near future, the challenge for COP 21 to reduce GHG emissions is to try to link heterogeneous climate policy instruments as a way to reach the solution of climate change issue in the long term. 

Metcalf GE, Weisbach D. Linking Policies When Tastes Differ Global Climate Policy in a Heterogeneous World. Harvard Harvard Kennedy School. Discussion Paper 2010. p. 10-38. 

Baumert KA, Herzog T, Pershing J. Navigating the Numbers Greenhouse Gas Data and International Climate Policy. USA World Resources Institute 2005. 93 p.ISBN ... 

Keith, D.W., Sinks, Energy crops and land use, coherent climate policy demands an integrated analysis of biomass, Climatic Change, 49(1-2), 1, 2001. 

Indirect link to the objective of climate policy (e.g., impacts). 

IEA (International Energy Agency) (2007a). Energy Security and Climate Policy. Assessing interactions. Paris OECD/IEA. 

WETO (2003). World Energy, Technology and Climate Policy Outlook (WETO) 2030. Report EUR 20366. Brussels European Commission, DG Research. 

Fischedick, M., Esken, A., Luhmann, H. J., Schiiwer, D. and Supersberger, N. (2007a). C02 Capture and Geological Storage as a Climate Policy Option. Technologies, Concepts, Perspectives. Wuppertal Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal Spezial 35e. 

The countries involved in existing research efforts are those that follow a more technology oriented approach in their national climate policy, including the US, Canada, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, plus a number of EU Member States and the EU itself, which is funding a number of ongoing projects. 

Climate Policy is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on responses to climate change. For further information see www.climatepolicy.com. 

Recognizing the central importance of competitiveness concerns, in 2004 the Carbon Trust conducted a pioneering study on the competitiveness impacts of the ELF ETS.1 Building upon this work, in 2005 the Carbon Trust sponsored an international collaborative study with the European research network Climate Strategies, led by our Chief Economist, Michael Grubb. The work aimed both to build upon our earlier study, and add to this much deeper analysis of the issues surrounding allowance allocation, costs and incentives. The full results are presented in this special issue of Climate Policy. 

The European emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) has an efficient and effective market design that risks being undermined by three interrelated problems the approach to allocation the absence of a credible commitment to post-2012 continuation and concerns about its impact on the international competitiveness of key sectors. This special issue of Climate Policy explores these three factors in depth. This policy overview summarizes key insights from the individual studies in this issue, and draws overall policy conclusions about the next round of allocations and the design of the system for the longer term. 

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