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Setting The Foundation: How Local Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives Can Pave The Way For A Regulatory Regime That Works, Thomas M. Gremillion
Setting The Foundation: How Local Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives Can Pave The Way For A Regulatory Regime That Works, Thomas M. Gremillion
Thomas M Gremillion
Climate change is here and with it a growing awareness of the need to adapt to impacts that are already occurring. At the same time, efforts to establish an international regulatory program to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have all but collapsed. This article argues that climate change adaptation at the local level, particularly in urban areas, represents a logical step forward. In addition to managing risk, adaptation can stimulate a needed shift in emphasis towards a more pluralist or polycentric approach to climate regulation, laying the groundwork for future national and global regulatory regimes. Examining some of …
Reducing Carbon Emissions From The Developing World Through Compensated Moratoria: Ecuador’S Yasuní Initiative And Beyond, Thomas M. Gremillion
Reducing Carbon Emissions From The Developing World Through Compensated Moratoria: Ecuador’S Yasuní Initiative And Beyond, Thomas M. Gremillion
Thomas M Gremillion
This articles suggests that a proposed alternative for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—paying developing countries to forego fossil fuel exploitation in tropical forests, or “compensated moratoria”—could serve an important role in future climate change regulation. The article details Ecuador’s proposal to impose a moratorium on oil exploration in the Amazon rainforest—the Yasuní Initiative—and looks at the implications for broader climate change policy. The article briefly explores the shortcomings of prevailing policy mechanisms for mitigating GHG emissions in developing countries, and discusses how compensated moratoria could help to improve on these shortcomings. The article concludes that compensated moratoria should receive serious …