Corporate Strategies and the Clean Development Mechanism - Developing Country Financing for Developed Country Commitments? (Hardcover)

This book assesses the structure of projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It explains why, instead of the expected bilateral structure where a company from an industrialized country invests in a project in a developing country and receives the emission reduction credits in return, a unilateral structure prevails whereby a company from a developing country finances the emission reduction project itself and sells the emission reduction credits. The book arrives at three fundamental, interconnected, conclusions: CDM is logically a unilaterally driven investment activity; CDM investment is an irrelevant compliance instrument for companies from industrialised countries and that this state of affairs is unlikely to change post 2012; and CDM thrives in less equal and less ambitious post-2012 climate regimes. Unique in its analysis of corporate views on investment in CDM projects, this book will find widespread appeal amongst climate policy analysts, company representatives involved in developing CDM acquisition strategies and climate policymakers. It will also be of interest to anyone involved in the study of climate change, emissions reduction and trading and carbon markets.

General

Imprint:	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
Authors:	Soren E. Lutken • Axel Michaelowa
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-84720-928-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
LSN:	1-84720-928-9
Barcode:	9781847209283

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