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Social Cost Of Carbon In Environmental Impact Assessment, Meinhard Doelle
Social Cost Of Carbon In Environmental Impact Assessment, Meinhard Doelle
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While the social cost of carbon (SCC) has played a prominent role in regulatory decision-making in recent years, use in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) realm has been minimal. This article explores potential roles for SCC in EIA. Using Canada’s proposed new federal impact assessment (IA) regime as a basis, the analysis examines how a jurisdiction could employ SCC to integrate climate change considerations into project-level assessment and decision-making. Potential roles are first discussed in relation to the broad purposes of IA, before focusing on key assessment factors such as consideration of economic costs and benefits, cumulative effects, climate change …
The Heart Of The Paris Rulebook: Communicating Ndcs And Accounting For Their Implementation, Meinhard Doelle
The Heart Of The Paris Rulebook: Communicating Ndcs And Accounting For Their Implementation, Meinhard Doelle
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Nationally Determined Contributions play a critical role in the architecture of the Paris Agreement. Parties are required to prepare and communicate their NDCs and to undertake domestic efforts to meet their mitigation commitments, facilitated in some cases by support and finance from other parties. The focus of this article is on key elements of the five-year cycle that deal with the content and process of NDCs, specifically the portion of the Paris Rulebook on the communication of NDCs and the accounting for their implementation. The article concludes that while the basics appear to be in place, there are a number …