PODCAST – Replicating LIFE DICET 3/3 – Support ITMOs development under the Paris Agreement

A post by the LIFE DICET Project team In this blog post, Suzi Kerr, Chief Economist of the Environmental Defense Fund and an active member of the LIFE DICET’s Core Expert Group, discusses LIFE DICET’s replicability. She leads the project Read More …

Offsetting for carbon neutrality – Getting the claims right

A post by Kenneth Möllersten (IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute), Hanna-Mari Ahonen (Perspectives Climate Research) & Lars Zetterberg (IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute) In this blog post, we explain why voluntarily seeking so-called “corresponding adjustments” is not a question of Read More …

Triggering a Climate Alliance with a nuanced effort sharing

A post by Michele Stua (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa) The German Government has recently launched an ambitious proposal for international climate change governance. A first document by the German Ministry of Finance (August 2021) suggested “an Alliance for climate, Read More …

Short-term impacts of carbon offsets on emissions trading schemes: lessons from the EU for the Paris Agreement

A post by Claire Gavard (ZEW Mannheim) and Djamel Kirat (University of Orléans, CNRS) In 2015, the Paris Agreement established the Article 6.4 Mechanism, which makes it possible for activities contributing to emissions reductions in a host country to be Read More …