From the Paris Agreement to a low-carbon Bretton Woods : rationale for the establishment of a mitigation alliance

• Main Author: Stua, Michele (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Carbon offsetting.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319546995; 9783319546988
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement. In doing so the book defines those criteria that may lead to an effective establishment of a Carbon Club acting within the mandate of the Paris Agreement and identifies the key questi...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Collaborator and Co-Author; Collaborators ; Contents; Editor and Main Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Why Can Market Mechanisms Enhance Mitigation Ambition?; 1.2 The Paris Agreement; 1.3 Climate Clubs and Where They Can Make a Difference; 1.4 A 'Mitigation Alliance' as Special Form of a Climate Club; 1.5 How to Define the Common Mitigation Target; 1.6 Learning from the Clean Development Mechanism; 1.7 Kinds of Transactions; 1.8 Governing the Market; 1.9 How Carbon Prices Are to Be Generated; 1.10 Co-benefits of Mitigation.
• 1.11 Mobilizing a Transformational ClubReferences; Part I: Foundation of the Mitigation Alliance; Chapter 2: The Road to Paris; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Brief History of Climate Change Negotiations; 2.3 The Multi-annual Battle Culminating in the Paris Agreement; 2.4 The Paris Agreement; 2.5 Conclusions: Towards an Experimental Climate Governance; References; Chapter 3: Climate Clubs and Their Relevance Within the Paris Agreement; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Climate Clubs: Typologies and Interpretations; 3.3 Rationale and Objectives of Transformational Clubs.
• 3.4 Structure and Functioning of Transformational Clubs3.5 Models to Enforce the Club's Objectives; 3.6 Transformational Clubs and the Paris Agreement Regime; 3.7 Conclusions: Towards a Mitigation Alliance; References; Chapter 4: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement as Foundation for the Mitigation Alliance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Unveiling Article 6; 4.3 Analysing the Terminology of Article 6; 4.4 A Transformational Club Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: The Mitigation Alliance; 4.5 Conclusions: Drafting the Architecture of the Mitigation Alliance; References.
• Part II: Architecture of the Mitigation AllianceChapter 5: The Mitigation Alliance Target and Its Distribution; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Adoption of an Aggregate Target in Line with the Paris Agreement Objectives; 5.3 CBDR-RC Burden Sharing Within the Mitigation Alliance; 5.4 Conclusions: Significance of a Mitigation Demand in Line with the Paris Agreement Objectives; References; Chapter 6: A Single Mechanism for the Certification of Mitigation Outcomes; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Ties Between the Clean Development Mechanism and Article 6; 6.3 Introducing the Mitigation Alliance Mechanism.
• 6.4 The Mitigation Alliance Mechanism as an Evolution of the Clean Development Mechanism6.5 Overcoming the Limitations of the Clean Development Mechanism; 6.6 Conclusions: The Mitigation Alliance Mechanism as Pillar of the Mitigation Alliance Supply System; References; Chapter 7: Approaches to the Exchange of Mitigation Outcomes; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Towards a Mitigation Alliance Carbon Market; 7.3 Interpretation and Use of Offsetting; 7.4 The Mitigation Alliance Facilitating Convergence Towards a Single Market; 7.5 Approaches to the Certified Mitigation Outcomes Exchange.