Greenhouse Gas Emissions Global Business Aspects
The world is getting hotter as it experiences the extremes of global climate change. In 1999, catastrophic storms hit Honduras, China and East India, bringing severe devas tation to lives and national economies. EI Nino swept across the Pacific in early 2000, inflicting the worst floods on Mozambiq...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
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2001, 2001
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Table of Contents:
- Annexes Annex 1 Annex A of the Kyoto Protocol: Targeted Greenhouse Gases and Sources
- Annex 2 Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol: Countries and QELRCs (commitments)
- Annex 4 List of Countries Signing and Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, at end 1999
- Units, Definitions and Conversion Factors
- Figures Index
- Country, Place Index
- Persons Index
- A9.3 The Role of the Private Sector and Trading Exchanges
- A9.4 Kyoto Protocol and Non-Kyoto Protocol Risks
- A9.5 Case for Private Sector Financing of CDM Projects
- A9.6 Issues Regarding “Tradability” of Emissions Credits Earned by Non-Annex I Firms
- A9.7 Case of Governments Which Have Not, or May Not, Sign Up to the Kyoto Protocol
- A9.8 Countries Listed in Annex I to the Convention Compared to Countries listed in Annex B to the Protocol
- A9.9 Definition of Small and Medium-Size Enterprises, and Large Companies
- A9.10 Project Selection Criteria for the CDM: Industries and Country Targets
- A9.11 Reference Datum for Measuring Emissions Reductions for CDM: Emissions Additionally
- A9.12 How Annex I Countries Can Move Ahead with the CDM
- A9.13 A Global Private Equity Fund — The World CDM Green Fund
- A10 Islands-at-Risk — Contingency Plans for Evacuation and Resettlement (Tables A10.1, A10.2, A10.3 and A10.4)
- A4 The Green 500 Project — A National Green Index to Rank Firms, Case Study: United Kingdom, Case Example 1, Case Example 2 (Tables A4.1, A4.2)
- A5 Carbon Accounting and Carbon Taxes
- A5.1 Accounting for Carbon Assets
- A5.2 Effect of Taxation on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- A6 National Pilot Schemes for Emissions Permits Trading Outside Annex I countries
- A6.1 National Permits Trading Scheme for India and China: Bilateral Cooperation Between the World’s Two Most Populous Countries
- A6.2 Model Questionnaire to Enterprises in Developing Countries
- A7.1 Annuitised and Levelised Costs of Carbon Abatement
- A7.2 Pricing Credits or Permits: Calculating “Overnight” and “Discounted” Cost
- A7.5 Economics of Energy Conversion — Coal to Natural Gas for Power Stations
- A8 Cost Data — Indicative Costs of Key Equipment for Thermal Power Projects
- A9.1 The Clean Development Mechanism
- A9.2 Role ofthe Conference of the Parties (Governments)
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Global Warming
- 3 The Kyoto Protocol’s Flexible Mechanisms
- 4 Institutional Issues
- 5 Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide
- 6 Clean Development Mechanism Project Prospects
- 7 Project Parameters and Equitable Treatment
- 8 CO2 Reduction Technologies and Financial Analysis
- 9 Emissions Trading
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- A1 Contact Addresses of Environmental Authorities/Relevant Government Authorities in Developing Countries
- A2 United Nations and Multilateral Environmental Organisations Concerned with Environmental Policies and Financing of Projects
- A3 Emissions Measurement and Monitoring
- A3.1 Technical Methods (Table A3.1)
- A3.2 Maintaining Sustainability in Kyoto Protocol Projects
- A3.3 World Bank Guidelines on Environmental Standards — Major Atmospheric, Land and Water Pollutants from Industries and Domestic Sources (Table A3.2)