Charlotte Streck

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 11 (2017), Issue 3, Page 204 - 205

Charlotte Streck, Moritz von Unger

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 10 (2016), Issue 3, Page 178 - 189

The adoption and entering into force of the Paris Agreement is a welcome occasion to re-assess the legal foundations of emissions trading and, in particular, the nature of ‘carbon rights’. Cap-and-trade (‘allowances’) and baseline-and-credit (‘credits’) represent the main emission trading approaches, the former imposing compliance obligations, the latter stipulating voluntary action to reduce and monetize emissions. Each approach comes with legal characteristics and raises legal questions concerning property rights and protection, taxation, and financial regulation, on the one hand, and the proper recognition of individual mitigation efforts (in the context of environmental services) and participation rights, on the other hand. This article places the different type of rights in the context of their creation, purpose, and function.

Charlotte Streck, Moritz von Unger

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 10 (2016), Issue 3, Page 175 - 177

Charlotte Streck

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 2, Page 158 - 168

This paper aims to inform the ongoing international climate change negotiations by examining the main arguments underlying the debate surrounding additionality of emission reductions as well as additionality of finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. The main methods of testing additionality will also be discussed. This paper is organized in three parts. The first part summarizes the history of financial additionality, the second looks at ways to test the additionality of emission reductions. The third part concludes with proposals on how to establish clear criteria for testing additionality with the aim of reducing the controversy that surrounds the concept so as to realize its implementation in the long-term.

Moritz von Unger, Charlotte Streck

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 3 (2009), Issue 1, Page 14

er and stake, it was with great optimism, open dismay or silent resignation that supporters of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) saw climate negotiators convene in Poland in December 2008. They had hoped for representatives of the Kyoto Parties to bring momentum to the discussions of recent years of how to strengthen the CDM, one of the three flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol (KP). While the continuous growth of the instrument does not exactly point to a mechanism in crisis, the CDM is at a critical stage. The number of cr

Charlotte Streck

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 2 (2008), Issue 3, Page 9

ests play an essential role in climate change mitigation. Forests store about 45% of the terrestrial carbon and have the potential to sequester large amounts of additional carbon. Carbon uptake by forests contributed to a “residual” 2.6 PgC year1/1 terrestrial carbon sink in the 1990s, amounting to approximately 33% of anthropogenic carbon emission from fossil fuel and land-use change.2 Landuse related activities, which include forestry, but also agriculture and land management, can contribute to the mitigation of climate change in various

Robert O’Sullivan, Charlotte Streck

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 2 (2008), Issue 3, Page 9

luencing our climate. By storing carbon, forests can help mitigate climate change; by releasing carbon, they contribute to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. Despite their essential role as storehouses of carbon and regulators of local climates, forests in many parts of the world are degraded and destroyed in order to expand agricultural lands, gain timber or clear space for infrastructure or mining activities. Decreased harvesting and increased regeneration make forests in temperate zones act as ca

Charlotte Streck, Thiago Chagas

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 1 (2007), Issue 1, Page 11

ormulates the common understanding of the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations that “substantial” cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are necessary to avoid, to the extent possible, catastrophic climate change. The international agreement to achieve such cuts will be negotiated in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the leaders of the most powerful industrialised nations have confirmed that it is their goal to “agree on a detailed contribution for a new global framework by the end