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Rio, Kyoto, Marrakesh – Groundrules for the global climate policy regime

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  • Michaelowa, Axel

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After four years of intense negotiations that tethered on the brink of failure, the design of the international climate policy regime that is formed by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Marrakesh Accords is now sufficiently clear to be implemented. Apart from the U.S. and Australia, all industrialised countries have now stated that they will ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Industrial countries are subject to binding greenhouse gas emissions targets for the commitment period 2008-2012. Several countries profit from exceptions that weaken the targets. The availability of forestry and agricultural sinks will further lower the necessity for emission reductions. A world market for emission rights will form as the Kyoto Mechanisms can be used without limits; the only category apart are sinks CDM credits that are capped. Given the U.S. position to stay out of the Kyoto Protocol, overall demand for emission rights is likely to be lower than supply of "hot air" from Russia and Ukraine. Thus the world market price will be very low, probably between 1 and 5 € / t of CO2. The price could be higher if sellers form a cartel or some sellers are excluded from the market when they do not fulfil the relatively strict reporting rules agreed in Marrakesh. Under a low price the CDM whose institutional structure is rather cumbersome will only have a chance if it concentrates on the cheapest project types and most effective host countries. Especially attractive are projects collecting and burning landfill methane while most renewable energy projects are too expensive, unless they are implemented in very favourable locations.

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  • Michaelowa, Axel, 2001. "Rio, Kyoto, Marrakesh – Groundrules for the global climate policy regime," HWWA Discussion Papers 152, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA).
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:hwwadp:26280
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    1. Müller-Pelzer, Felicia, 2004. "The Clean Development Mechanism," HWWA Reports 244, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA).
    2. Thomas L. Brewer, 2003. "The trade regime and the climate regime: institutional evolution and adaptation," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(4), pages 329-341, December.
    3. Clasing, Martin, 2006. "CO2-Emissionshandel - Auswirkungen auf die deutsche Energiewirtschaft," Jena Contributions to Economic Research 2006,2, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena – University of Applied Sciences, Department of Business Administration.
    4. Muller-Pelzer, Felicia, 2004. "The Clean Development Mechanism," Report Series 26122, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.

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