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C. Streck A. Tuerk B. Schlamadinger 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(5):455-463
An important aspect in the linking of different emissions trading schemes is the degree to which these systems allow (or ban)
external offset project categories. The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) currently allows the use of credits from energy
and industry projects developed under the Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation (JI) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
but excludes the use of carbon credits from forestry projects for compliance in the EU ETS. Forestry credits generated by
the CDM have a limited lifetime and expire at the end of a project’s crediting period, or earlier if the carbon stock for
which the credits have been issued ceases to exist. According to the recently adopted amendment of the EU ETS Directive forestry
credits will remain to be excluded until 2020. The present article reviews how the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement
Scheme (Australia), the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (US) and the voluntary scheme of the Chicago Climate Exchange integrate
forestry offsets into the respective system and how they deal with the risk of losing stored and credited biomass. By comparing
the results of different scenarios this article shows how differences in the treatment of forestry offsets could impact the
efforts to link various emission trading systems in future.
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A. TuerkEmail: |
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Pablo del Río 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(3):203-213
Internal mitigation projects have recently been proposed as an additional flexibility mechanism, particularly in the context
of the European Union. Their main objective is to engage sectors not included in the European Union emissions trading scheme
(EU ETS) in cost-effective emissions reductions. However, in this paper it is argued that, when assessed in terms of dynamic
efficiency, the instrument is likely to be, at best, irrelevant to induce the scale of systemic technological changes which
are required to tackle the climate change problem and, at worst, detrimental for this task. Insights from the Evolutionary
Economics of technological change complemented with political economy considerations are used to support this claim.
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Pablo del RíoEmail: |
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Serge I. P. Stalpers André R. van Amstel Rob B. Dellink Ivo Mulder Saskia E. Werners Carolien Kroeze 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(4):359-378
This article discusses an approach for identification and evaluation of short-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction
options in firms. The approach is based on lessons learnt from a project using Participatory Integrated Assessment (PIA) and
builds on the idea that effective public climate policy for firms requires options that have support from stakeholders and
are practically feasible. Scenarios are used to provide a link with short-term policy developments and a model assists to
communicate quantitative effects of options to participating stakeholders. Our approach can be seen as a first step towards
a framework that meets the need for more systematic approaches to PIAs identifying effective public policies for short-term
GHG emission reduction options in firms. In order to identify effective options for non-carbon dioxide GHG emission reductions,
our approach has been applied to Dutch dairy farms, after which it has been refined. The case study suggests that our approach
can provide balance between practical, context specific issues and scientific-theoretical aspects, thereby avoiding common
pitfalls of participatory research projects to focus too much on either theory or practical issues.
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Serge I. P. StalpersEmail: |
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Shimpei Iwasaki Bam Haja Nirina Razafindrabe Rajib Shaw 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(4):339-355
Climate change combined with human activities poses significant risks to people’s livelihood especially in developing countries.
Adaptation at the community level is of crucial importance in enabling them to respond to the direct and indirect effects
of changes in climate. In a case study of fishing communities in Chilika lagoon, India, the focus is made on understanding
climate change adaptation at the community level and scaling it up into the policy perspective through application of Sustainable
Livelihood Approach. This article challenges the research and policy community to encourage the identification of locally
negative constraints and positive strengths toward climate resilient communities in rural areas.
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Rajib ShawEmail: |
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Kenneth T. Gillingham Steven J. Smith Ronald D. Sands 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(7):675-701
In the coming century, modern bioenergy crops have the potential to play a crucial role in the global energy mix, especially
under policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as proposed by many in the international community. Previous studies have
not fully addressed many of the dynamic interactions and effects of a policy-induced expansion of bioenergy crop production,
particularly on crop yields and human food demand. This study combines an updated agriculture and land use (AgLU) model with
a well-developed energy-economic model to provide an analysis of the effects of bioenergy crops on energy, agricultural and
land use systems. The results indicate that carbon dioxide mitigation policies can stimulate a large production of bioenergy
crops, dependent on the level of the policy. This production of bioenergy crops can lead to several impacts on the agriculture
and land use system: decreases in forestland and unmanaged land, decreases in the average yield of food crops, increases in
the prices of food crops, and decreases in the level of human demand of calories.
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Steven J. Smith (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The interaction between emissions trading and renewable electricity support schemes. An overview of the literature 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Pablo del Río González 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2007,12(8):1363-1390
The public promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources coexists in many countries with the recent implementation
of emissions trading schemes. As shown by several papers, this coexistence may lead to significant interactions between both
instruments, in the form of synergies and conflicts. This paper provides an overview and analysis of the literature on such
coexistence and interactions. A major conclusion is that policy measures aiming at exploiting the synergies between both instruments
should be implemented. The greatest synergy effects from the use of both instruments take place through appropriate coordination
of their targets. Another key finding is that, although some stylised facts can be inferred from the studies, some results
from those complex interactions are context-specific since they depend on the design of the instruments in particular countries.
In spite of the significant policy implications of such interactions for the effective and cost-effective functioning of both
instruments, this is a surprisingly under searched field. It is so concerning, both, theoretical and empirical analysis.
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Pablo del Río GonzálezEmail: |
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Approaches to semi-synthetic minimal cells: a review 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Following is a synthetic review on the minimal living cell, defined as an artificial or a semi-artificial cell having the
minimal and sufficient number of components to be considered alive. We describe concepts and experiments based on these constructions,
and we point out that an operational definition of minimal cell does not define a single species, but rather a broad family
of interrelated cell-like structures. The relevance of these researches, considering that the minimal cell should also correspond
to the early simple cell in the origin of life and early evolution, is also explained. In addition, we present detailed data
in relation to minimal genome, with observations cited by several authors who agree on setting the theoretical full-fledged
minimal genome to a figure between 200 and 300 genes. However, further theoretical assumptions may significantly reduce this
number (i.e. by eliminating ribosomal proteins and by limiting DNA and RNA polymerases to only a few, less specific molecular
species). Generally, the experimental approach to minimal cells consists in utilizing liposomes as cell models and in filling
them with genes/enzymes corresponding to minimal cellular functions. To date, a few research groups have successfully induced
the expression of single proteins, such as the green fluorescence protein, inside liposomes. Here, different approaches are
described and compared. Present constructs are still rather far from the minimal cell, and experimental as well as theoretical
difficulties opposing further reduction of complexity are discussed. While most of these minimal cell constructions may represent
relatively poor imitations of a modern full-fledged cell, further studies will begin precisely from these constructs. In conclusion,
we give a brief outline of the next possible steps on the road map to the minimal cell.
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Pier Luigi Luisi (Corresponding author)Email: |
Francesca FerriEmail: |
Pasquale StanoEmail: |
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Kirsten Halsnæs Priyadarshi Shukla 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(2):105-130
The paper presents a number of ideas on how climate change policy implementation in developing countries can be supported
by alternative international cooperation mechanisms that are based on stakeholder interests and policy priorities including
broader economic and social development issues. It includes a brief review of current development policies, technological
research and promotion efforts, and climate change that demonstrates that mutual policy initiatives undertaken by governments
and the private sector actually have major positive impacts on climate change without being initiated by this global policy
concern. Furthermore a number of examples are given on how future development objectives in Brazil, China, and India jointly
can support economic and social goals and global climate change concerns if these goals are taken into consideration and supported
by international cooperative mechanisms. The paper proposes international cooperative mechanisms that can support the implementation
of integrated development and climate change policies. The mechanisms include an international sustainable development (SD)
and Climate Finance Mechanism (SDCFM), technology development and transition programmes, technology standards, and other measures.
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Priyadarshi Shukla (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Alexander Golub Jos Cozijnsen Annie Petsonk 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(5):433-453
This article examines possibilities for linkage between the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and Russia, with
a view to enhancing cooperation on a broader scale than the project-based approaches that have been tested thus far. Three
paths for possible EU-Russia linkage are presented by which the Russian Assigned Amount under the Kyoto Protocol can be greened
in order to stimulate emissions trading: 1. Joint implementation—reductions earned via individual projects in Russia; 2. Greened
allowances or green investment schemes; and 3. Linked cap-and-trade systems, in which a Russian domestic emissions trading
system would link with the European Union Emissions Trading System. The authors conclude that the third option, emissions
trading through linked domestic emissions trading systems, offers the best opportunities at the lowest transaction costs.
The authors discuss useful innovative instruments like call options and slip level arrangements on government-to-government
and business-to-business levels.
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Annie PetsonkEmail: |
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Greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries through technology transfer?: a survey of empirical evidence 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sonja Peterson 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(3):283-305
While greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are projected to rise primarily in the developing countries, the potential for developing
new GHG mitigation technologies exists primarily in the industrialized countries. It is thus important, not only for predictions
about future emission paths but also for climate change mitigation policies, to understand how the international diffusion
of such technologies takes place and how it affects the energy infrastructure and GHG emissions in developing countries. This
paper provides an overview of the channels through which these technologies diffuse and focuses on the empirical evidence
pertaining to the effects these technologies have on GHG emissions in developing countries.
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Sonja PetersonEmail: |
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Jayant A. Sathaye Kenneth Andrasko 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2007,12(6):971-1000
Climate change programs have largely used the project-specific approach for estimating baseline emissions of climate mitigation
projects. This approach is subjective, lacks transparency, can generate inconsistent baselines for similar projects, and is
likely to have high transaction costs. The use of regional baselines, which partially addresses these issues, has been reported
in the literature on forestry and agriculture projects, and in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation program guidance for them (e.g.,
WRI/WBCSD GHG Project Protocol, USDOE’s 1605(b) registry, UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism). This paper provides an assessment
of project-specific and regional baselines approaches for key baseline tasks, using project and program examples. The regional
experience to date is then synthesized into generic steps that are referred to as Stratified Regional Baselines (SRB). Regional
approaches generally, and SRB in particular explicitly acknowledge the heterogeneity of carbon density, land use change, and
other key baseline driver variables across a landscape. SRB focuses on providing guidance on how to stratify lands into parcels
with relatively homogeneous characteristics to estimate conservative baselines within a GHG assessment boundary, by applying
systematic methods to determine the boundary and time period for input data.
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Kenneth AndraskoEmail: |
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T. A. Persson 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(5):399-408
It is argued that there are at least five reasons for the Northeast states of the United States to implement a regional emission
trading scheme for carbon dioxide despite the lack of federal policy regulations: goodwill, learning, political influence,
risk management and competitiveness interests. Using an energy-economy model, the carbon price to bring the firms into compliance
with a 10% reduction by 2020 is estimated to be 20-150 US$ per ton C. There have been discussions about linking the ongoing
EU Emission Trading Schemes to the Northeast state initiative. The prime argument is that such a linkage would encourage a
change of the federal US policy, which has traditionally followed action taken at the state level. Emissions trading with
binding mitigation commitments could thus be demanded and accepted also on federal level. This paper demonstrates that the
impact of linkage on permit prices depends on the reduction target in the European scheme: A low EU target results in a net
flow of permits to the Northeast scheme, while a 40% EU reduction target results in a net flow of permits from the Northeast.
Flow of permits from the Northeast state must be compensated for by the EU because the United States is not a party of the
Kyoto Protocol. The EU must therefore buy permits in allowances recognized in the Kyoto regime in an amount equal to the net
flow of permits from the Northeast states.
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T. A. PerssonEmail: |
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Sonia Akter Roy Brouwer Saria Choudhury Salina Aziz 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2009,14(3):215-229
The study aims to assess the commercial viability of a potential crop insurance market in Bangladesh. In a large scale household
survey, agricultural farm households were asked for their preferences for a hypothetical crop insurance scheme using double
bounded (DB) contingent valuation (CV) method. Both revenue and production cost based indemnity payment approaches were applied
to assess the commercial viability of a crop insurance program assuming a partner-agent (PA) model of insurance supply. Crop
insurance is found marginally commercially viable in riverine flood plain areas. The expected indemnity payable consistently
exceeds the expected insurance premium receivable by the insurer for the households living in wetland basin and coastal floodplain.
We conclude that a uniform structure of crop insurance market does not exist in Bangladesh. The nature of the disaster risks
faced by the farm households and the socio-economic characteristics of the rural farm communities need to be taken into careful
consideration while designing such an insurance scheme.
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Sonia AkterEmail: |
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Michael J. Scott James A. Dirks Katherine A. Cort 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(4):307-339
US residential and commercial buildings were responsible for about 41 exajoules (EJ) of primary energy use per year in 2002,
accounting for approximately 9% of the world fossil-fuel related anthropogenic carbon (C) emissions of 6.7 Gt that contribute
to climate change. US Government-sponsored building energy efficiency research and implementation programs are focused on
reducing energy consumption in US residential and commercial buildings and reducing these carbon (C) emissions. Although not
specifically intended for adaptation to a warmer climate and less effective than under today’s cooler climate, these programs
also could help reduce energy demand in a future warmer world. Warming scenarios projected by the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 imply net overall decreases in both site energy and primary energy consumption in US
residential and commercial buildings, largely because of the reduced need for heating. However, there would be as much as
a 25% increase in building space cooling demand and a significant part of the increase could be offset by energy-efficiency
improvements in buildings. Overall, in the US, buildings-related energy efficiency programs would reduce site energy consumption
in buildings in the US by more than 2 EJ in 2020 and primary energy by more than 3.5 EJ, more than enough to offset the projected
growth in cooling energy consumption due to climate change and growth in the US building stock. The savings would have an
estimated annual net value at 2005 energy prices of between $45.0 and $47.3 billion to consumers.
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Michael J. ScottEmail: |
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Linking emissions trading schemes allows the combined emissions cap to be achieved at lower cost. Linking is usually environmentally
neutral, but some design features can lead to higher aggregate emissions if schemes are linked. Technical solutions to limit
the potential emissions increases due to design differences implemented when schemes are linked are not sufficient to ensure
the environmental effectiveness of the linked schemes over time. Technological, economic, administrative and other changes
that can lead to higher aggregate emissions are inevitable. The administrators of the linked schemes must ensure the stringency
of the emissions cap relative to the “business as usual” emissions of affected sources, the accuracy of the emissions reported
by affected sources, the integrity of the allowance registry, effective compliance enforcement, and the environmental integrity
of the credits issued for emission reduction projects over time. This will require a process for agreeing on revisions to
the regulations of the linked schemes, a mechanism to provide assurance of the environmental effectiveness of each of the
linked schemes, and a procedure for terminating the linking agreement.
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X. WangEmail: |
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Adaptation and mitigation as complementary tools for reducing the risk of climate impacts 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Gary Yohe Kenneth Strzepek 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2007,12(5):727-739
This paper uses the likelihood of flooding along Brahmaputra and Ganges Rivers in India to explore the hypothesis that adaptation
and mitigation can be viewed as complements rather than sustitutes. For futures where climate change will produce smooth,
monotonic and manageable effects, adopting a mitigation strategy is shown to increase the ability of adaptation to reduce
the likelihood of crossing critical threshold of tolerable climate. For futures where climate change will produce variable
impacts overtime, though, it is possible that mitigation will make adaptation less productive for some time intervals. In
cases of exaggerated climate change, adaptation may fail entirely regardless of how much mitigation is applied. Judging the
degree of complementarity is therefore an empirical question because the relative efficacy of adaptation is site specific
and path dependent. It follows that delibrations over climate policy should rely more on detailed analyses of how the distributions
of possible impacts of climate might change over space and time.
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Gary YoheEmail: |
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Over the past decade “bicellar” lipid mixtures composed of the long-chain dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and the short-chain
dihexanoyl PC (DHPC) molecules have emerged as a powerful medium for studying membrane associated, biologically relevant macromolecules
and assemblies. Depending on temperature, lipid concentration and composition these lipid mixtures can assume a variety of
morphologies, some of them alignable in the presence of a magnetic field. This article will examine the biophysical studies
that have elucidated the various morphologies assumed by these lipid mixtures, and their use in the biochemical studies of
biomolecules.
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John KatsarasEmail: |
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Upasna Sharma Anand Patwardhan 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(8):819-831
Differences in impacts of climate hazards across exposed units are determined by many factors including the severity of the
hazard itself, the population that is exposed to the hazard and the coping capacity of the exposed units to the hazard. Coping
capacity or adaptive capacity results from a combination of development status (generic capacity) and interventions pertinent
to the hazard (specific capacity). This paper explores the extent to which the generic adaptive capacity may explain the variation
in tropical cyclone impacts. Therefore this paper offers an empirical approach by which adaptive capacity may be measured
and validated against actual outcomes. Results not only validate the role of generic adaptive capacity in explaining variations
in impact but also reveal that general development indicators are not very important as far as predicting outcomes is concerned.
Those indicators of development that can be linked to the impact process are significant in explaining and predicting impact.
This can help identify those aspects of generic adaptive capacity which are important from the perspective of policy action
for enhancing adaptive capacity to a particular climate hazard.
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Anand PatwardhanEmail: |
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Davin Budreau Gordon McBean 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2007,12(7):1305-1320
Scientific evidence gathered over the past five years suggests that northern Canada and the Arctic have undergone, and are
undergoing, formidable environmental changes linked to global climate change. Environmental change in the north is expected
to persist and intensify over the course of the next century. When large-scale environmental changes take place, they inevitably
affect people, especially when the cultures and livelihoods of those people depend on their relationship with the environment.
Managing the local impacts of these changes is a matter of adaptation. This paper discusses some of the policy implications
of adaptation––government interventions aiming to build communities’ and regions’ capacities to adapt to environmental changes.
Three arguments for adaptive capacity building interventions in the north are discussed, and these arguments are augmented
by a comparative review of government reactions to the collapse of the cod fishery in Atlantic Canada. Reactive and proactive
policy approaches are discussed, and it is suggested from the comparison that proactive approaches to intervention are desirable
for building adaptive capacity.
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Gordon McBean (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Neil Strachan 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2007,12(4):455-470
There is substantial uncertainty regarding baseline greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions forecasts—i.e., how GHG emissions will
grow over time in the absence of policy intervention. Thus baseline uncertainty should be a key consideration in setting GHG
emissions targets as a mitigation strategy to respond to global climate change. At a minimum, the emissions target must be
less than the baseline level to induce changing behavior and new investment. Despite this fundamental policy criterion, baseline
considerations have played only a minor role in target setting under international climate policy. Baseline uncertainty applies
to both absolute and intensity based emissions targets. It is demonstrated that one advantage of intensity targets is reduced
uncertainty in the projected baseline, however there will always be some residual uncertainty in model projections. To illustrate
the importance of considering baseline uncertainty in GHG target setting, the Bush Climate Change Initiative is analyzed against
its projected baseline as a case study of a modest intensity target. Based on comparison with historical data, the range of
projections by major energy-economic models, past discrepancies in the accuracy of model projections and the added complexity
of sector-specific drivers for non-CO2 GHGs, it is shown that the Bush Initiative cannot be guaranteed or even expected to deliver actual reductions against an
uncertain baseline. This finding emphasizes the importance of setting a target that accounts for baseline uncertainty to achieve
genuine mitigation of GHG emissions.
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Neil StrachanEmail: |