Action targets: a new approach to international greenhouse gas controls     

Kevin A. Baumert  Donald M. Goldberg 《Climate Policy》2013,13(6):567-581

Abstract

This article introduces and explores a new form of international commitment to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, called an action target. Action targets differ from other forms of targets, such as the Kyoto Protocol's fixed targets, in that they define a quantity of GHG abatement to be achieved, rather than a future emission level to be reached. This article explains the basic mechanics of how action targets might operate, and analyses the approach across a range of criteria, including uncertainty management and contributions to sustainable development in non-Annex I (developing) countries. The analysis suggests that action targets might improve the prospects of widening and deepening developing country participation in the international climate regime.  相似文献   

Clean development mechanism: leverage for development?     

《Climate Policy》2013,13(2):251-268

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to show that the investments through the clean development mechanism (CDM) can exert a leverage effect to (i) make attractive to developing countries non-binding commitments and the adoption of national policies and measures; this comes as a guarantee of non-conditionally of the mechanism to strictly environmental concerns and (ii) create a flow of additional investments and technological transfer from Annex B countries to non-Annex B countries.

The Indian power sector has been chosen as an example of a sector where institutional barriers, market imperfections, and tariff distortions create a great space for Pareto improvements and leave an important potential for no-regret measures: technological transfer, air conditioned systems, transport infrastructures and removal of subsidies on consumption.

This paper presents a micro-economic formalisation on (i) the evolution of profitability of current emitting technologies used in the power sector under the adoption of national policies and measures and (ii) the impact on renewable energy technologies competitiveness of emission credits in the context of CDM. This formalisation has been developed to enable quantitative simulation. A first exercise using the Markal model (used in 77 countries) on the electric sector in India enabled us to simulate the leverage effect of emission credits on additional incomes taken as a proxy for development.  相似文献   

Perverse incentives under the CDM: an evaluation of HFC-23 destruction projects     

《Climate Policy》2013,13(2):851-864

The clean development mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol allows industrialized countries to use credits from greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement projects in developing countries. A key requirement of the CDM is that the emission reductions be real, measurable and additional. This article uses data from registered projects to evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met by projects that reduce hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23) emissions in the production of hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 (HCFC-22). The data show that HCFC-22 plants produced significantly less HFC-23 during periods when no emission credits could be claimed compared with periods when HFC-23 destruction could be credited under the CDM. Moreover, the total amount of HCFC-22 produced appears to be determined mainly by CDM rules. This suggests that the claimed emission reductions may partly not be real and that the CDM provides perverse incentives to generate more HFC-23. The accelerated phase-out of HCFCs under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer could worsen this situation. To address these issues an ambitious emission benchmark for the baseline HFC-23 emissions is proposed.  相似文献   

基于三维地质模型的西咸新区地下空间开发 适宜性评价     

李林 《地质与勘探》2024,60(1):197-206

地下空间开发地质适宜性评价是合理进行地下空间开发、降低开发地质风险的重要手段。传统的评价方法没有考虑地下空间复杂的垂向变化,因而无法满足越来越精确的地下空间规划要求。本文以西咸新区沣东沣西为例,结合该区地质地貌背景、工程地质特征、水文地质条件、不良地质作用以及地下空间开发现状等特点,建立地下空间开发地质适宜性评价因子体系;利用三维精细化剖分的评估单元为载体,综合使用多种三维空间分析方法从多要素地质模型中定量或定性提取各项指标,运用层次分析法模型开展研究区地下空间开发适宜性评价。评价结果表明：研究区60 m以浅地下空间开发利用条件优越,总体适宜开发建设。浅层空间易受文物保护区、地面水体、活动断裂影响,中层空间受城市建成区既有设施及地下构筑物影响较大,深部地下空间主要受断裂影响。该方法能够精细刻画地下空间在垂向上的差异,评估过程与结果能够立体透明化表达,能够定性、定量地为地下空间开发利用提供辅助决策,以达到资源保护优先、协同开发的开发利用格局。  相似文献   

Development and Demographic Change in Taiwan, 1945–1995     

《The Professional geographer》2006,58(1):111-113

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掌鳞刺属演化及晚泥盆世环境变迁     

王超勇  夏文臣 《南方国土资源》2002,15(2):21-25

牙形石掌鳞刺属Palmatolepis齿台结构和形态随时间演替 ,由近正三角形向长三角形、长菱形演化 ,在F/F界线附近受地质事件的影响而中断 ,使Palmatolepis齿台结构呈二段式发展 ,在Palmatolepis的分子中 ,那些演化速度快 ,结构变化大的分子首先灭绝 ,而那些演化速度慢 ,结构变化小的分子延续时间长 ,分布范围也更加广泛 ,在地质事件中被保留下来并得以延续 ,这种演化规律可能是生物有选择性灭绝与复苏的原因之一。晚泥盆世F/F之交环境的变化可能是由于海退 ,海底毒气喷发 ,超量金属元素的污染造成的  相似文献   

国家资源环境安全要素的综合评价   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

张雷 《地球信息科学学报》2002,4(4):86-92

资源环境安全问题始终是世界各国持续发展的核心任务和基本需求。考虑到单要素和整体两大分析方法的不足 ,作者提出了一种具有针对性的要素综合分析方法。根据世界 10个人口 1亿以上国家的抽样分析表明 ,土地、水资源、矿产及生态环境的整体状态是决定国家资源环境安全的基本要素群体。与此同时 ,为了改善国家 ,特别是发展中国家的资源环境脆弱状态和提高其稳定程度 ,第一是严格控制人口增长 ;第二是努力推进本国资源环境开发的国际化进程 ;第三是增大智力投入以提高资源深化加工程度 ;第四是加大本国生态环境保护力度。  相似文献   

Problems of the aquatic environment and countermeasures in the rapid economic development in the Zhujiang River Delta     

Yanmao Wen  Cheng Guopei 《中国地理科学(英文版)》1995,5(1):39-43

The Zhujiang (Pearl) River Delta is the rapid economic development region in China since the opening and reform door policy was carried out in 1978. Being the rapid development of industry and city, the impact on the aquatic environmental quality was significant. The pollution caused the water quality descended and the ecological system degraded, and also impeded the economic development. The characteristics and problems of the aquatic environment are: the capacity of aquatic environment is large but hasn’t been utilized rationally, the water quality is influenced by saline sea water and tide current, the main pollutants are organic matter and the pollution is going heavier, the concentration of pollutants change seasonally. The countermeasures of aquatic environmental protection are: carrying out the environmental functional regionalization and controlling the total amount of pollutant discharge, revising the industrial structure and making a rational industrial arrangement, raising the rate of waste water treatment and making a full assessment of the water conservancy project.  相似文献   

陕北油气田开发中水资源综合利用   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

高云文  曹海东  常铮  张荣甫  高文冰 《地球科学与环境学报》2005,27(4):75-78

通过对陕北工业用水短缺、大量污水无序排放的调查。研究了造成陕北严重缺水的原因，发现化工废水难以净化后供人们生活使用。但通过去重金属离子后可用于油田注水开发。炼油厂废水与油田产出水按不同比例混合处理后，根据不同油田储层物性进行回注采油。结果表明，处理后的污水适应于不同地质特征的产层。这即解决陕北特低渗油层注水的水敏性问题，同时也使大量污水得到充分利用，具有明显的经济效益和社会效益。  相似文献   

关于网络经济的经济增长特征问题的讨论   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

黄宗捷 《成都信息工程学院学报》2001,16(4):285-289

同传统的大工业经济相比较，网络经济条件下的经济增长特征问题有了新的内容。这就是，影响经济增长的主要因素有质的变化；经济资源得以在全球范围内优化配置；人力资源开发在经济增长中具有决定性作用；集约化成为经济增长的主要方式；信息技术成为经济增长的主要推动力。  相似文献