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Current Developments journal article

Camilla Bausch, Michael Mehling, Leonardo Massai, Andrea Hudson Campbell

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 2 (2008), Issue 1, Page 11

logic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin/Washington, D.C. More than any previous year, 2007 saw momentum build for concerted international action on climate change. With a lively public debate and several highprofile events, global warming enjoyed unprecedented media attention and also a prominent place on the political agenda as the year came to an end. Against this backdrop, more than 10,000 participants convened in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 15 December 2007 for the 13th Conference of Parties to


Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Allowances in the United States – A Northeastern Example journal article

Camilla Bausch, Sandra Cavalieri

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 1 (2007), Issue 2, Page 10

best-known greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading initiative in the U.S. is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). As of October 2007, a group of 10 states in the northeastern U.S. have agreed to begin an emissions trading system on 1 January 2009. This proposed system covers the electricity energy sector; more specifically generators with power plants in the RGGI region with over 25 MW of nameplate capacity, totalling approximately 810 facilities in the participating states.1 Although RGGI is a sub-national regional initiative,


Tracking down the Future Climate Regime – An Assessment of Current Negotiations under the U.N. journal article

Camilla Bausch, Michael Mehling

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 1 (2007), Issue 1, Page 13

dynamic subject matter in a growing array of societal responses to environmental degradation. During this process, it has been literally promoted to a symbolic status, reflecting the many challenges humanity will face in reconciling continued development with the need to distribute environmental and economic burdens equitably across regions as well as generations. Environmental issues have rarely attracted as much attention as climate change does nowadays, with a series of influential documentaries1, reports2 and public events3 projecting

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