
Anja KollmussStockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Anja Kollmuss
MA in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University
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April 2007 - February 2011
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Diese Studie analysiert eine Auswahl von Massnahmen, um in der Schweiz zusätzliche, innovative und möglichst verursachergerechte Finanzquellen zu erschliessen.
This study assesses the environmental integrity risks of international carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and discusses possible international rules to address them. A considerable risk is that several countries have mitigation targets that correspond to higher levels of emissions than business-as-usual (BAU) projections. The amo...
This study systematically evaluates the environmental integrity of Joint Implementation (JI) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Our analysis indicates that about three-quarters of JI offsets are unlikely to represent additional emissions reductions. This suggests that the use of JI offsets may have enabled global GHG emissions to...
Carbon markets are considered a key policy tool to achieve cost-effective climate mitigation. Project-based carbon market mechanisms allow private sector entities to earn tradable emissions reduction credits from mitigation projects. The environmental integrity of project-based mechanisms has been subject to controversial debate and extensive resea...
Avoiding double counting of emission reductions is a key policy concern to Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Double counting of emission reductions can occur when a single greenhouse gas emission reduction or removal, achieved through a mechanism issuing units, is accounted more than once towards attaini...
This paper describes the different types of discounting, their objectives and their potential impacts on carbon markets. Discount factors can be used to strengthen the environmental integrity of offsets and to give preference to certain projects types or geographic regions. Applying a discount can also, in theory, enable the use of offsets to provi...
Avoiding double counting of emission reductions is a key policy concern to Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper systematically assesses how double counting can occur and how it could be addressed. It finds that double counting can occur not only directly, but in rather indirect ways which can be...
This working paper explores the question of target “time frame” and its implications for the generation and use of tradable emissions units. Under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreements, some countries have adopted continuous or multiple-year emissions targets, while others have taken on discontinuous or single-ye...
This paper evaluates projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) that abate N2O emissions from adipic acid production. The research shows that carbon markets enabled N2O emissions abatement levels that had not previously been achieved. However, data on adipic acid production, plant utilization and international trade patterns show that the...
Over the past decade, a number of offset programs have developed quite sophisticated processes to review offset projects, approve or reject them, and issue credits based on their performance. This paper reviews offset project approval and credit issuance processes for three compliance market programs and five programs that issue offset credits for...
In recent years, businesses, local governments and individuals have set goals for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to directly reducing their own emissions, many of these entities have purchased carbon offsets to help achieve their mitigation goals. Yet establishing offset quality can be difficult, due to issues such as add...
Carbon offsetting involves knowing how much pollution a person/machine/ plant is responsible for, for a certain activity. One will then pay a carbon offset company for the amount of CO2 emitted. The carbon offset company would then invest the money in a project meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The emitter will then get credit for a share e...
Numerous theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmental behavior. Although many hundreds of studies have been undertaken, no definitive explanation has yet been found. Our article describes a few of the most influential and...
This paper addresses one of the more vexing and poorly understood questions facing GHG offset programs: How can offset programs be designed to work with, and enhance, other GHG mitigation policies to create an effective, secure, and equitable climate protection regime? Or, put more specifically, do offset programs, and the potential revenue streams...
This paper evaluates nitric acid projects under the CDM and considers whether they may pose a risk to environmental integrity. The paper finds that the CDM successfully fostered abatement in this sector which previously had not engaged in abatement practices. It further finds that carbon leakage is unlikely for this project type and that there is n...