Each week, we review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted at the “indispensable” RFF Library Blog, curated by RFF Librarian Chris Clotworthy. Check out this week’s highlights below:
Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources: Progress Report
The Environmental Protection Agency released a progress report Friday that reiterated its support for increasing natural gas development in the United States. — via U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Wetlands: Impacts and Costs
Scientific evidence indicates that global warming could well lead to a sea-level rise of 1 meter or more in the 21st century. In a new working paper, Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Benoit Laplante seek to quantify how a 1-meter sea-level rise...— via The World Bank
Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free Quota Allocations
This paper studies interactions between a “policy bloc’s” emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy “fringe” of countries (such as for the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol). — via The World Bank
Making Markets: Unpacking Design and Governance of Carbon Market Mechanisms
This paper identifies the key design elements of market mechanisms and examines the governance structures and decision-making processes used to create tradable GHG units in existing systems both inside and outside of the UNFCCC. — via Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Energy and Climate Policy: Bending the Technological Trajectory
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives, so it is important to understand how environmental policy design and technological innovation are linked. — via Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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