Sharing the Burden of Involuntary Compulsion

Working together, sharing the burden.

Sharing the Burden of GHG Reductions

The G8 countries propose a goal of a 50% reduction in global emissions by 2050, in an effort that needs to take account of other agreements specifying that developing countries are to be provided with incentives to action and protected from the impact of measures taken by others. To help inform international negotiations of measures to achieve these goals we develop a technique for endogenously...

RENEWABLE ENERGY BURDEN SHARING REBUS Effects of burden sharing and certificate trade on the renewable electricity market in Europe

Creation of an internal market for renewable electricity will involve a political negotiation process, similar to previous EU greenhouse gas negotiations. The Energy Ministers in the EU have agreed on an overall target of 22% of electricity supply from Renewable Energy Sources (RESE) and a distribution of targets over the individual Member States. The REBUS project provides insights in the effe...

Letter from chicago: compulsion.

About a quarter of a century ago I failed psychiatry because of my imperfect understanding of the obsessive-compulsive disorders. I had not grasped the difference between compulsions and obsessions, the professor pointed out from behind his big desk; and I had written that these disorders were rare when in fact they were exceedingly common. So I spent the summer clarifying these points in my mi...

Scenarios on the burden sharing of climate change mitigation

International political debate on how climate change should be mitigated has grown stronger, and one key issue has been burden sharing, i.e. the question of how much each nation should be allowed to emit greenhouse gases. This Thesis examines the outcomes of emission reductions using the TIMES energy system model in four SRES scenarios, proposes a multicriteria approach for evaluating economic ...