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    The process of cutting the carbon is a complex business and not all hybrid design would be a success in regard to uncertainties and political lobbying involved. The regulation of the government, participation of the industry and other participants can make the system effective over a certain time span. Carbon trading, often called emissions trading (ET), is a market-based tool to limit GHG. The carbon market trades emissions under cap-and-trade schemes (CTS) or with credits that pay for or offset GHG

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    addition, only the first carbon budget has been completed. The UK is currently in the progress of the second budget, which is 2013 to 2017. Meeting carbon budget is not the same as reducing emissions as the budget refers only to some sources of emissions. The price of carbon has recently been very low and, as a result, the governments have introduced carbon tax in the Finance Act of 2011.The Carbon Floor Price (CFP) is a top-up tax, it exists to boost the existing EU price of carbon (Webster, 2013). Only

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    the debt instruments designed for financing green projects, are the most advanced financial instrument for investors to engage in climate change finance3. Speaking of climate change initiatives, in March 2017, Russian Carbon Fund and Aera Group pioneered the first worldwide carbon credit transaction using blockchain, to guarantee transparency and ensure that transactions are valid. CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVE GREEN ECONOMY IN RUSSIA Though the benefit of green economy is evident to the public, in Russia

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    Beale spoke about eco-fiscal policies with a focus on carbon pricing. According to Beale, increasing carbon emissions are not only harmful to the environment but also create several negative externalities such as damaging crops and higher health costs. For this reason, carbon pricing would help to shift these costs back to those who are responsible. Beale proposes two options for carbon pricing,, a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system. A carbon tax is simpler as the government sets a price for greenhouse

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    commercialization of food, forests, water as well as genes. The carbon market is just following the footsteps of that legacy and further undermines the stability and capacity of the Earth to maintain a climate that favours life and human societies, what in the end we all come out losers (While et al: 2010). 4.5. The similarities between carbon market and subprime Some analysts and NGOs (Friends of the Earth, ATTAC or even Al Gore) showed similarities between carbon market and derivatives subprime (Philips et al,

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    Annex I countries are industrialized nations with large carbon emissions, such as the US, Australia, EU, and Russia. The agreement has four implementation mechanisms designed to achieve the desired reductions in emissions, but only asks that countries comply with the reductions rather than suggesting a methodology

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    Introduction All through the most recent four decades, coordinated endeavours have been taken by states at universal, local and national levels to address natural difficulties postured far and wide. Amidst this period, global understandings have been made running from the "marine environment to space and from species conservation to assurance of the ozone layer". In addition, the author peddled that this period has additionally seen the foundation of new global establishments which have reinforced

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    Introduction In the face of climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not only a nation’s essential task but also a global duty. Because of poorly regulated emissions, some greenhouse gases will remain in the Earth’s atmosphere for thousands of years. The mitigation of global environmental emergencies requires uniform international standards and established rules. Therefore, international policy coordination by multilateral agreement is indispensable. This policy paper aims to discuss

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    Environmental credits (ECs) such as carbon credit, nutrient credit, and water quality credit are designed to conserve the environmental and ecosystem services and to promote sustainable development. ECs-trading in a market creates incentives for the protection of environmental amenities along with minimization of associated externalities. It also helps to meet the regulatory requirement for the emitters. The regulation restricts stakeholders to load or emit pollutions in specified amount (i.e. emission

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    including the idea of carbon trading, that would reinforce the importance of lowering the amount of CO2 being released into our atmosphere. Looking back to that decision made eighteen years ago, I do not believe that the concept of carbon trading should have been introduced in lieu of a carbon tax as it is now a crutch used by corporations, both big and small, to either improve the profitability of their company by selling their unused carbon permits or to

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