Laurence was previously head of technology at Sandbag, an NGO
focused on carbon markets.
Through the Secretariat and its specialist members, IETA maintains, updates, and develops new contracts that are recognized for their clarity, conciseness and
focus on carbon market details.
In addition to her law degree, Mary also holds a master's degree in political science from York University, where her research
focussed on carbon markets and economic theory.
Not exact matches
In 2009, Bloomberg L.P. purchased New Energy Finance, a data company
focused on energy investment and
carbon markets research based in the United Kingdom.
A problem is that
markets for trading
carbon dioxide
focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.
The industry will need to
focus on the best technologies and enforce support of those with the highest reduction in
carbon footprint while making investments to quickly scale the deployment of better fuels into the
market.
In particular, IIASA researchers will
focus on how potential phosphorus
market crises might put pressure
on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between
carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.
Thomas has also worked extensively in the analysis of
carbon market mechanisms and
carbon pricing instruments, with a
focus on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will
focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low -
carbon economic growth in major
markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil.
Often when business action is discussed, we
focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental
market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero
carbon emissions by 2050).
A clear
focus remains
on carbon markets,
carbon pricing, climate finance and
market - based mechanisms like the CDM, which has incentivized the registration of more than 8,000 projects in 111 countries.
Our first article comes back
on the latest UNFCCC intersession, which took place last May in Bonn,
focusing specifically
on the Article 6 of the Paris Agreement that deals with
carbon markets.
Only a year ago, WND reported scientists and others
on a team assembled by the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, which
focuses on free -
market solutions to today's problems, say the «scare» of global warming from the use of
carbon fuels and other human activities «is over.»
The expansion of renewable energy is a central part of this strategy.9 As China's renewable energy industries grow, Chinese green technology companies are starting to assert themselves in international
markets and low -
carbon collaboration and assistance are increasingly becoming features of the country's foreign cooperation strategy.10 At the fourth Forum
on China — Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2009 the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced 100 clean energy projects across Africa, including some small - scale projects
focused on solar energy.11 At the fifth FOCAC meeting Downloaded by [Weill Cornell Medical College] at 10:13 25 July 2016 Third World Quarterly 3 in South Africa in December 2015 China pledged US$ 60 billion for a variety of areas of China — Africa cooperation, including renewables and technology transfer.
We need new policies, regulatory frameworks, and institutions
focused on four areas: creating
market - based incentives to innovate and raise
carbon productivity; addressing
market failures that prevent abatement opportunities from being captured profitably; resolving issues of allocation and fairness, in particular between the developed and developing worlds and between industry sectors; and accelerating progress to avoid missing critical emissions targets.
No one claims that
carbon markets alone will fix the climate mess, but they do have a role to play, and its a role we hope to understand a bit more after this week, we thanks to two new surveys — one
focused explicitly
on the motives and strategies of voluntary
carbon buyers, and the other
focused on the specific ways that voluntary
carbon markets are being utilized in different parts of the world.
Instead, they demanded an unworkable framework of legally binding international emissions targets, influenced and supported by climate hawks who demanded a laser
focus on increasing renewable deployment and energy efficiency, mainly through
market mechanisms such as cap - and - trade and
carbon taxes.
Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary
markets, while most media coverage of
carbon trading has
focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This article examines the role of
carbon finance in cookstove projects in Kenya, with a
focus on market transformation.
The letter emphasizes, «Effective disclosure of the
market risks from climate change would
focus on how low -
carbon scenarios would impact commodity demand and price and include the knock -
on effects of those shifts
on future capital expenditure plans, liquidity and reserves valuations, if any.»
In the first 20 years of
carbon policy, as noted above, policymakers» almost exclusive
focus on «
market - based» policy rather than the combined political - economy as a whole including direct public investment and utilizing the policy space available to monetarily sovereign government in the area of fiscal policy more generally.
Focus on transformational action: «Ensure that renewable and efficient solutions are emphasized rather than false solutions that fail to produce the results and protection we need, such as
carbon markets in land and soil, dangerous geoengineering interventions, and more.»
«There is a great opportunity for the private sector to invest in a low
carbon future for Africa, using
market forces to bring innovative technologies so that the continent can develop in a sustainable way,» said Dirk Forrister, the President and CEO of International Emissions Trading Association, a business organization
focused on greenhouse gas emissions trading.
The Forum
focuses on business - critical information for mandatory and voluntary participants in Ontario's cap and trade program including navigating
market uncertainties and developing successful
carbon strategies.
The fellowship
focuses on market driven and
carbon based solutions to forest resource conflicts.To learn more about how to become a university fellow for the next cycle, email
[email protected].
The report
focuses primarily
on public climate finance flows from «north» to «south», probing the current use of funds from multi-lateral development banks (MDBs), bi-lateral financial institutions (BFIs) and
carbon markets for energy efficiency projects and the design of the future climate financial mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund to encourage energy efficiency improvements in developing countries.
These trainings will
focus on the role of financial
markets in driving the transformation towards a low -
carbon climate resilient economy, as it is fundamental to the efficient implementation of global ambitions in the post-Paris Agreement phase.
Respondents also said governments should
focus more
on increasing investment in renewable energy, halting deforestation and conserving water resources than
on carbon markets or taxes.
Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI) is a capital and services provider to the sustainable infrastructure
markets,
focused on reducing climate changing greenhouse gas emissions («GHG» or
carbon emissions) as well as mitigating the impact of, or increasing resiliency to, climate change.
you've made two points in particular that i think are spot -
on: the fact that small, organic farmers are more likely to use bio-diesel and / or alternative fuels in bringing their produce to
market, especially in the bay area where the Salon piece
focused, and also that the storage time post-harvest for the wholesalers is not insignificant from a
carbon footprint angle by any means.
As 2009
Focus on Energy
Market Provider of the Year, ECIʼs veteran engineer Craig Tarr has the kind of experience and technical background to make a «
carbon neutral» building become «
carbon negative» — that is, a building that produces more energy than it consumes.
The first part of this section briefly presents the available information regarding real
carbon credit transactions, while the second section
focuses on the literature review of several theoretical models and presents the theoretical estimates of the price and size of the
carbon market.
In calling for the development of new
carbon trading mechanisms, the Paris Agreement has theoretically established the foundation for a
carbon market focused more
on mitigating than
on offsetting pollution.
Parties were also considering how to increase funds for adaptation through the
carbon market, with discussions
focusing on extending the current 2 % levy
on mitigation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the other Kyoto mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, Mr. de Boer said.
The Summit will
focus more particularly
on innovation, developing new
carbon markets and mechanisms, greening finance, brown to green infrastructure spending and de-risking and crowding in finance.
It will
focus on how engagement between State and non ‐ State actors can be further strengthened in the key sectors for Africa (energy, agriculture and human settlements), including the role of future
carbon markets to achieve enhanced climate action, towards the goals of sustainable development.
The 10th Africa
Carbon Forum (ACF) will
focus on how engagement between State and non ‐ State actors can be further strengthened in the key sectors for Africa (energy, agriculture and human settlements), including the role of future
carbon markets to achieve enhanced climate action, towards the goals of sustainable development.
The 9th Africa
Carbon Forum will
focus on how engagement between State and non-State actors can be further strengthened in the key sectors for Africa (energy, agriculture and human settlements), including the role of future
carbon markets to achieve enhanced climate action, towards the goals of sustainable development.
To identify the key services and institutions that will be needed to support a successful IFCS program, this paper will examine three possible international forest
carbon sequestration (IFCS) models: a fund - based approach, proposed by Brazil7; a
market - based approach submitted jointly by several rainforest nations; 8 and the Forest Program for Inventories of National
Carbon (PINC) approach, which
focuses on rewarding a broad range of countries for increases in national
carbon stocks.9 While these three approaches share the same overall goal, they are structured in different ways, and their need for support services will differ as well.
However, his landmark report was, in part, misunderstood, because while everyone
focused on the
market failure of not putting a price
on carbon it also identifed five other
market failures that fuel the climate crisis: a failure of R&D investment; a failure of capital infrastructure investment; a failure to build networks where benefits are shared; a failure to account for co-benefits; and a failure of information distribution