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Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 10)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-14
  2. Introduction and Motivation

    • Michael A. Ridley
    Pages 15-17
  3. Joint Implementation

    • Michael A. Ridley
    Pages 18-60
  4. The Cost of Carbon in a Carbon Permit Market

    • Michael A. Ridley
    Pages 61-112
  5. The Carbon Hierarchy Revisited

    • Michael A. Ridley
    Pages 113-146
  6. Summary and Conclusions

    • Michael A. Ridley
    Pages 147-151
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 152-185

About this book

Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction. This book asks whether allowing countries to substitute emission reduction undertaken abroad in lieu of emission reduction at home will reduce the cost of emission reduction and allow more rapid and acute falls in pollution.
Analysing US Department of Energy data on US emission reduction projects undertaken in Eastern Europe and Central America, this book explains differences in the cost of emission reduction by method and by country. The book sets out the conditions that would allow a joint implementation system to evolve into a full-blown tradable permits system. Political and practical objections to joint implementation are aired and addressed.
This book is targeted at the environmental policy community, government officials, academics, the NGO community, economists and financiers, members of large corporations and museum educators everywhere.

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` ... Ridley has produced an easy to understand book with a good background on joint implementation.'
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1 (1999)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University College London, London, UK

    Michael A. Ridley

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