The future of the CDM: Same same, but differentiated?

Climate Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 752-767

  Bakker, Stefan ^a,b   Haug, Constanze ^b   Van Asselt, Harro ^b   Gupta, Joyeeta ^b   Saïdi, Raouf ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon market; Clean Development Mechanism; Differentiation; Discounting; Kyoto Protocol

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; KYOTO PROTOCOL; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78851471954     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0035     Document Type: Article

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