Goals and Economic Instruments for the Achievement of Global Warming Mitigation in Europe: Proceedings of the EU Advanced Study Course held in Berlin, Germany, July 1997

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Climate and its Influential Factors, Especially the Anthropogenic Enhancement of the Greenhouse Effect and its Possible Impacts — Results of the Second Assessment Report of the IPCC....Pages 3-26
The IPCC/OECD/IEA Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme: International Methods for the Estimation, Monitoring and Verification of GHG Emission Inventories....Pages 27-38
Necessities and Problems of Coupling Climate and Socioeconomic Models for Integrated Assessments Studies from an Economist’s Point of View....Pages 39-53
Climate Change and Integrated Assessment: The Tolerable Windows Approach....Pages 55-77
Climate Change and Global Change: The Syndrome Concept....Pages 79-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
A Comparison of GHG Inventories and Reduction Goals for Different Countries in Europe....Pages 99-112
Allocating Emission Reduction Targets in the European Union — Issues and Proposals....Pages 113-127
The EU Position in the Negotiation Process Towards a Protocol on the Limitation and Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions....Pages 129-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Range of Possible Political and Economical Instruments for the Mitigation of Global Climate Change....Pages 139-144
A Framework for the Evaluation of Political and Economical Instruments for Global Warming Mitigation....Pages 145-157
Global and European Voluntary Approaches in Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Municipal Level and Their Results....Pages 161-167
Voluntary Commitments to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions — The Example of German Industry and Trade....Pages 169-182
Voluntary Agreements in Climate Protection — Experiences in Germany and Future Perspectives....Pages 183-204
Carbon and Energy Taxes in OECD Countries....Pages 207-229
European Commission’s Experience in Designing Environmental Taxation for Energy Products....Pages 231-237
Limits of the Tax Approach for Mitigating Global Warming....Pages 239-251
Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) as an Instrument for the Mitigation of Global Warming....Pages 255-271
Practical Examples of Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) in Costa Rica....Pages 273-281
Problems and Limitations of AIJ and the JI Potential from the Perspective of a German Project Broker....Pages 283-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
U.S. Experience with Tradeable SO 2 Allowances....Pages 295-307
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
A European Model for Tradeable SO 2 -Emission Permits....Pages 309-328
Efficiency, Equity and Optimal Carbon Abatement....Pages 331-337
Possibilities of an EU-System of CO 2 Emission Permits....Pages 339-355
Launching a Plurilateral Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System — the UNCTAD-Earth Council Initiative....Pages 357-366
Tradeable Emissions Permits and the WTO....Pages 367-376
Status of Discussion and Negotiation for a System of Tradeable CO 2 Emission Permits within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....Pages 379-384
The United States Proposal for an International CO 2 Emissions Trading System....Pages 385-393
Results of the Emission Quota Trade Simulation Experiment by the Participants....Pages 397-406
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Assessing the Different Instruments in Climate Change Mitigation from the Perspective of Economics....Pages 409-425
Assessment of the Different Economic Instruments by the Participants....Pages 427-435
Selected Results of the Working Groups....Pages 437-439
Back Matter....Pages 441-466