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Climate change is one of the key challenges facing the international community. The world’s industrial countries and those with economies in transition have, under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, collectively agreed sharp limitations of their greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative provisions in this Protocol offer potentially cost-effective ways to meet these pledges. They allow investors - nations, as well as companies - to credit emission reductions they accomplish in foreign countries against their own commitments. The two schemes, Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism, will encourage investment in climate-friendly projects worldwide, especially in developing countries. So far, however, no detailed rules have been adopted to govern the new mechanisms or to evaluate just how many emission credits a particular project should generate. Rigorous methodological analysis is required before any decision can be taken. This book provides that analysis, examining issues in the development of emission baselines in four key sectors: electricity; cement; energy efficiency; and iron and steel. This book moves the debate from the theoretical to the practical. It provides insights on how to develop credible, workable and transparent baselines from which to quantify the mitigation effects of projects initiated under the "Kyoto mechanisms". In so doing, it sails uncharted waters. It attempts, indeed, to "estimate the unknown".

Electricity -- Environmental aspects. --- Greehhouse gas mitigation. --- Greenhouse gases. --- Iron industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. --- Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. --- Greenhouse gas mitigation --- Environmental policy --- Energy policy --- Industries --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- International cooperation --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Case studies --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Abatement of greenhouse gas emissions --- Emission reduction, Greenhouse gas --- Emissions reduction, Greenhouse gas --- GHG mitigation --- Greenhouse gas abatement --- Greenhouse gas emission reduction --- Greenhouse gas emissions reduction --- Greenhouse gas reduction --- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions --- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions --- Economics --- Pollution prevention --- International cooperation. --- Economic aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Industries, Primitive --- Greenhouse gases --- Electricity --- Iron industry and trade --- Steel industry and trade --- Gaz à effet de serre --- Electricité --- Sidérurgie --- Réduction --- Aspect de l'environnement