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Lessons and Implications for Phase II, edited by Michael Grubb, Regina Betz and Karsten Neuhoff. London: Earthscan, 2007. 160 pp., GBP 65.00, hardback. Giving Away Allowances Admirers of emissions trading often portray it as “automatically” reducing emissions. This collection of articles from the journal Climate Policy shows that trading schemes sometimes fail, for the same reason that traditional regulation sometimes fails – regulators fail to demand sufficient emission reductions to make adequate progress. For emissions trading, li

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Agreement, edited by Carlo Carraro and Christian Egenhofer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007. 144pp, GBP 39.95, hardback. There are signs that international law and policy on climate change is becoming increasingly more fragmented. This is partly due to the crosscutting nature of the problem, touching upon a wide range of issues, including energy, trade, investment, biodiversity, and air pollution. As a consequence, a number of international legal instruments are relevant to the problem, with regard to both reducing greenhouse gas

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ring Kyoto Protocol Provisions, edited by Rudolf Avenhaus, Nicholas Kyriakopoulos, Michel Richard, and Gotthard Stein Berlin: Springer, 2006, 629 pp., Euro 144,95, hardcover This book deals with compliance and monitoring in international arms control and climate protection treaties. “Verifying the compliance of states with treaties may sound dry and dreary. However, when it is about respect for pledges that states have given not to acquire lethal weapons or not emit more than limited quantities of greenhouse gases the voltage in the circui

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y the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave the alarming message that it is now more than 90% certain that human activities contribute to a global average temperature increase.1 The report further stressed the rationale for speedily limiting and reducing the amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions released in the atmosphere. Two years earlier, on 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force, putting into place a binding system that included greenhouse gas emission limitation and reduction commitments for

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tectures for Agreement. Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007. 408 pp., £ 50.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-52-187163-1 Deketelaere, Kurt, Janet Milne, Larry Kreiser, and Hope Ashiabor (eds.). Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation. Volume IV: International and Comparative Perspectives. Published by Oxford University Press, 2007. 608 pp., £ 110.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-19-923126-3 Douma, Wybe Th., Leonardo Massai, and Massimiliano Montini (eds.) The Kyoto Protocol an

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lton. Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007. 184 pp., £ 24.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-84407-417-4 Ellerman, A. Denny, Barbara Buchner, and Carlo Carraro (eds.) Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme: Rights, Rents and Fairness. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007. 442 pp., £ 60.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-52-187568-4 Fauchald, Ole Kristian, and Jacob Werksman (eds.) Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volu