Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Obama Calls for Market-Based Climate Change Solution in SOTU :: POWER Magazine. President Obama outlined a number of key energy-related measures in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, urging Congress to pursue legislation to mitigate climate change and calling for an expansion of clean energy and reduced red-tape for natural gas and oil permits. "After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future.
We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar—with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before—and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it," the president said of the nation’s energy endeavors.
The president noted that over the past four years, emissions of "dangerous carbon pollution" had fallen, but he said the country must do more to combat climate change. Sources: POWERnews, The White House. Reflections from Cambridge on the Climate Talks in Doha | An Economic View of the Environment. Ever since I returned – some two weeks ago – from Doha, Qatar, the site of the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-18) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), I have planned to offer some commentary on this year’s annual climate negotiations, including the principal outcome, namely, the “Doha Gateway.”
I decided to wait, mainly in order to put some geographic and temporal distance between the conference and my thoughts, so that I could reflect on “the forest,” rather than enumerating “the trees.” Then, a few days ago, a reporter from the Harvard Gazette, Alvin Powell, came to my office to discuss this very subject. Having covered this and related topics for a number of years, he has considerable background on both the science and the policy. And he had done his homework to prepare for the interview. By Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer Wednesday, December 19, 2012 File photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer GAZETTE: What were those three? Trade-climate-change-game-theory-carbon-adjustments.pdf (Objet application/pdf) DP-12-54.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement - DT n°43 : <font color='#008080'>Can Uncertainty Justify Overlapping Policy Instruments to Mitigate Emissions ?</font>
DT/WP No 2012-43 Title : Can Uncertainty Justify Overlapping Policy Instruments to Mitigate Emissions ? Authors : Oskar Lecuyer, Philippe Quirion Document Date : December 2012 Language : EnglishAbstract : This article constitutes a new contribution to the analysis of overlapping instruments to cover the same emission sources.
Using both an analytical and a numerical model, we show that when the risk that the CO2 price drops to zero and the political unavailability of a CO2 tax (at least in the European Union) are taken into account, it can be socially optimal to implement an additional instrument encouraging the reduction of emissions, for instance a renewable energy subsidy. Our analysis has both a practical and a theoretical purpose. It aims at giving economic insight to policymakers in a context of increased uncertainty concerning the future stringency of the European Emission Trading Scheme.
We develop an analytical and a numerical model of the EU energy and carbon markets. Actuelle - Édito Énergie - What role for the EU in Doha? Historical leader of the fight against climate change, the European Union’s influence declined in Copenhagen. This opened the way to the so-called BASIC countries to show their willingness to become a driving force in the international climate agenda. Interestingly enough, the Copenhagen conference also introduced a welcome shift in the traditional UN separation between developed and non developed countries.
If industrialized countries are responsible for most of current GHG emissions, emerging countries are the biggest emitters of tomorrow. However, Cancun conference and a strong pressure from the G77 reverted to the North/South partition. Yet according to the recent BASIC countries’ joint ministerial statement, the ever present battle over the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility" is far from over. Should Europe aim to remain THE leader or rather settle to be a driving force of climate international negotiations among others? Conférence de Doha sur les changements climatiques (COP-18) | Objectif Terre. La 18e Conférence des Parties (COP-18) à la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC) et 8e Conférence des Parties siégeant en tant que Réunion des Parties au Protocole de Kyoto aura lieu du 26 novembre au 7 décembre 2012 à Doha (Qatar). C’est la première COP à avoir lieu depuis l’établissant la « Plateforme de Durban pour une action renforcée » qui, au terme de la Conférence de Durban (CdP-17 ; nov.
-déc. 2011), a fait sauter le verrou du Plan d’action de Bali en établissant un nouveau groupe de travail chargé d’élaborer le régime climatique post-2020, qui pourrait prendre la forme d’un protocole, d’un instrument juridique ou d’un résultat concerté ayant force de loi. Ce nouveau régime, qui inclura toutes les Parties, devra être achevé au plus tard en 2015 et entrer en vigueur en 2020. À moins d’un mois de la fin de la première période d’engagements, la Conférence de Doha devra relever plusieurs défis de taille, à savoir: Should You Pay Attention to the UN Climate Talks? The annual United Nations (UN) climate talks are rarely a pretty sight. The typical script is fairly reliable. Negotiators typically arrive at each summit with mostly realistic goals. But diplomats and those who seek to influence them spend the first week or so ratcheting up demands and accusations, in part for leverage, but at least as much in order to make themselves look good and their adversaries appear villainous.
Members of the media (if they’re paying attention) report that the talks appear set for disaster. Meanwhile, away from the spotlight, negotiators quietly hash through the substantive tasks at hand. Eventually, in the middle of the second week, higher level officials arrive. Occasionally, important differences prove impractical to resolve, and the summit collapses. This process looks – and perhaps more importantly feels – very different depending on how much attention you pay to what’s going on. Which one of these vantage points gives observers a more accurate view? Kyoto, Doha et après : enjeux autour des négociations de l’après-Kyoto. Des DOI sont automatiquement ajoutés aux références par Bilbo, l'outil d'annotation bibliographique d'OpenEdition.Les utilisateurs des institutions qui sont abonnées à un des programmes freemium d'OpenEdition peuvent télécharger les références bibliographiques pour lequelles Bilbo a trouvé un DOI.
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Game theory suggests that attempts to negotiate an international environmental agreement, aiming to provide a global public good such as greenhouse gas emission reduction, are bound to fail (Barrett 1991, Carraro and Siniscalco 1992, Carraro and Siniscalco 1993). The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) nonetheless sought to find an agreement on legally binding targets for emission abatement. International conferences have been held each year since 1995. This year’s event, the 18th Conference, is from 26 November to 7 December in Doha, Qatar. The previous 17 conferences have failed to reduce emissions. There were glimmers of hope in 1997 and 2001 when the Kyoto Protocol was, respectively, initiated and finalised. This international treaty, however, bound Europe and Japan to do nothing much and most other countries to do nothing at all.
Figure 1. An obvious critique of this calculation is that the negotiations would have changed over time. Decarbonisation is no 100 metre race by EU Energy Policy Blog. This week, the European Climate Commissioner made a proposal to stabilise the European Union’s emission trading system – a market for greenhouse gas emission allowances that has been in place since 2005. Under the proposal, allowances worth six month of EU emissions (900 million tonnes) would be temporarily taken out of the trading system, and sold in 2019 and 2020 rather than 2013-2015. This “back-loading” is supposed to revamp carbon prices that dropped below €10 per tonne of carbon dioxide because of the accumulation of a large stock of excess allowances in the system.
The excess results from unexpectedly low demand for allowances induced by the economic crisis, and from emission reductions incentivised by complementary policies on renewables and energy efficiency. The rationale for “back-loading” is that it will push up the carbon price and provide incentives for market participants to continue to save on emissions. Georg Zachmann, Research Fellow, Bruegel. Développements récents de la recherche sur les outils de lutte contre le changement climatique - CDC Climat. 14 novembre 2012 Retrouvez les présentations du colloque CDC Climat Recherche-Cepremap-PSE du 4 octobre 2012. CDC Climat Recherche organisait, avec le Centre Pour la Recherche Economique et ses Applications (Cepremap) et la Paris School of Economics (PSE), le 4 octobre dernier, un colloque de recherche académique consacré aux développements les plus récents des outils de lutte contre le changement climatique. Introduite par Daniel Cohen, directeur du Cepremap, et Benoît Leguet, directeur de la recherche de CDC Climat, la journée a donné lieu à des présentations de Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France et PSE), Bard Harstad (Northwestern University), David Martimort (PSE), Stephen Salant (University of Michigan), Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University), Thomas Michielsen (Tilburg University), Julien Daubanes (ETH Zurich), et de Jérôme Pouyet (PSE).
Pour plus d’informations, consulter le site du CEPREMAP Programme et présentations : EL-9.pdf (Objet application/pdf)
Clean development mecanism. The old battle between emissions trading and renewables. Energy policy The Doha Climate Summit is approaching, and proponents of emissions trading are once again stabbing at renewables for being ineffective and too expensive. Shouldn't these camps be working together? It's enough to make you want to grab a guitar and start singing “Why can't we be friends?” Every few years, there is a climate summit – and along with it, a slew of economists pointing out that renewables are too expensive and won't do the job anyway, so what we need is a carbon price.
The latest incarnation is an article in the New York Times published by economist Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford. While his arguments against renewables are nothing new, he does have an interesting proposal for emissions trading. As Renewables International has pointed out before, the Anglo world tends to view energy policy from the viewpoint of economists. In contrast, Germans tend to look at the world as engineers, and the difference is palpable. The double standard is striking. Www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/11/13/000158349_20121113115028/Rendered/PDF/NonAsciiFileName0.pdf.
Energy in nepal. Toyota reveals four nursing robots to be produced in 2013. Motor giant Toyota has unveiled the latest addition to its Partner Robot series -- a quartet of healthcare robots. Four nursing bots, including ones that assist with walking and balance, will be deployed in 2013. They've been built in collaboration with Fujita Health University Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, Japan to get feedback on the sorts of equipment that specialised medical facilities need. Toyota will now cooperate with more nursing and medical facilities before entering full production.
The first robot, called Independent Walk Assist, looks like a chunky thigh-high knee pad and a futuristic space boot. The Walk Training Assist has a similar idea, but by supporting the entire body it can help a patient with impaired walking return to making natural steps. The Balance Training assist looks more like an arcade game than a recovery robot, but movement-heavy games like Kinect and Wii have previously helped in recuperation.
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