Global Climatic Cooperation and Emission Rights Allocation

A Global Carbon Market and the Allocation of Emission Rights

The paving of the way for a new climate agreement has turned out to be extremely challenging. The negotiators struggle to make the required emissions reductions binding under international law and to agree on burden-sharing amongst nations. Despite the fact that the G8 (Major Economics Forum 2009 ) as well as the Copenhagen Accord (UNFCCC 2010 ) refer to the 2°C target, the current pledges of t...

SNM and global cooperation.

Human Rights and Global Democracy

O ver the past dozen years or so democratic theorists and activists have become increasingly worried about globalization’s adverse effects on democracy. Their concerns include: (1) democratic deficits, or the lack of democratic control over existing intergovernmental and supranational governance structures such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the European Union (EU); (2) democratic ...

Dynamical Allocation Method of Emission Rights of Pollutants by Viability Constraints Under Tychastic Uncertainty

This study proposes a method of dynamic decentralization by constraints and its associated software. It can be used to allocate pollutant emissions rights among the different polluters such that they achieve both given global and local emission thresholds not to be transgressed. Knowing the maximum growth rates of polluting emissions of each polluter in the worst case, this method provides the ...

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: Disability Inclusive Development and International Development Cooperation

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...