Climate Disruption in Canadian Constitutional Law: References Re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act

Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change

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Constitutional Law

The effects of local pollution regulation on greenhouse gas emissions

In most countries, environmental regulation has focused on local pollution, which causes damages near the emission source, while national regulation on greenhouse gases (GHG) has been slow. In this paper, we ask whether US local air pollution regulations have had an effect on GHG emissions. On the one hand, a firm required to lower emissions of local pollutants might respond by adopting technol...

Private Standards in the Climate Regime: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

This paper seeks to explain the success of two NGOs in creating standards for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the level of an entire company. These emissions accounting standards, called the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, have been widely adopted by multinational firms, emissions reporting registries, and even an emissions trading scheme. The paper traces the widespread ad...

Climate change. Recent reductions in China's greenhouse gas emissions.

T he prevailing wisdom about China's greenhouse gas emissions is that they are increasing steadily, because of the large quantities of coal being used to fuel a fast-growing industrial economy, and most projections show China's greenhouse gas emissions continuing to grow in the coming decades (1). However, we find that China's CO 2 emissions declined by 7.3% between 1996 (the peak year) and 200...