climate change regulation Articles

Future challenges to asset investment in the UK water industry: the wastewater asset investment risk mitigation offered by minimising principal operating cost risks

This paper defines challenges currently facing the water industry globally that will affect water industry asset investment and development now and in the near future. Those challenges include energy price volatility, climate change regulation, asset capital costs and strategic resource considerations. This paper presents potential answers to these challenges in the context of the UK water ...

Mar. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Investors take climate change into account

Increasing interest in climate change from investors generates improvements in disclosure into business operations and strategies, reports Envido. A new survey from the Institutional Investors Group in Climate Change (IIGCC) revealed that the proportion of institutional investors who consider firms' climate change policies when making investment decisions has more than doubled in the past two ...

Jun. 10, 2010

By Vital Energi

Climate change risks and opportunities for the South African Economy case study

Camco developed a report assessing the implications of climate change for the South African economy, based on an analysis of national, regional and global mitigation measures. The report, entitled ‘Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the South African Economy’, has attracted considerable policy maker and media attention in South Africa, and argues that climate change has ...

Jun. 28, 2012

By Camco Clean Energy Company

Draft New Zealand emissions regulations for liquid fossil fuels

These regulations are the Climate Change (Liquid Fossil Fuels) Regulations 2008 [Draft for Consultation]. They come into force on 1 January 2009. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: Act means the Climate Change Response Act 2002biofuel has the same meaning as in section 1B of the Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Act 1989blend, in relation to a fuel specified in ...

Feb. 13, 2008

By New Zealand Government

U.S. efforts on climate change: New beginnings and enduring realities

This article sets the stage for the rest of this U.S.-focused issue by providing an analysis of prospects for federal legislation and regulation of climate change in the United States. It lays out the many drivers propelling the U.S. Congress to pass a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions, including multiple and diverse efforts from states and nongovernmental organizations, as well as the ...

Jun. 1, 2008

By Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

The status and the actions to implement the Kyoto Protocol in Italy: problems and perspectives

In this article, the authors point out main problems and perspectives related to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Italy. After a brief and general introduction for explaining main concerns and institutional frameworks involved in the development of international procedures suitable to deal with the problem at a global level, the status of Italian actions in the different economic ...

Apr. 27, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Finding Your Footing in the Climate Change Challenge

Introduction Continued reports of rising temperatures and melting polar ice caps made 2006 a year of unprecedented media coverage on global climate change. In fact, “carbon neutral” was named the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2006 “word of the year.”1 Climate change is quickly becoming solidified as the ultimate sustainability issue, one that touches each key element—a pressing environmental, ...

May 1, 2007

By Trinity Consultants

`Finding Your Footing in the Climate Change Challenge,` published in EM Magazine, April 2007

Continued reports of rising temperatures and melting polar ice caps made 2006 a year of unprecedented media coverage on global climate change. In fact, "carbon neutral" was named the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2006 "word of the year."1 Climate change is quickly becoming solidified as the ultimate sustainability issue, one that touches each key element—a pressing environmental, ...

May 11, 2007

By Trinity Consultants

EPA`s greenhouse gas proposal: a blueprint for federal regulation

On the whole, EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is providing an opportunity to see the future of an upcoming era of climate change concerns mandating the regulation of energy efficiency. It also, the authors predict, will play a key role in the formulation of an era that likely will last for decades to come. While some have ...

Oct. 24, 2008

By Bloomberg BNA

Climate Change, Flow Regulation and Land-Use Effects on the Hydrology of the Peace-Athabasca-Slave System; Findings from the Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative

The Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative (NREI) was established in the late 1990s to address important science questions resulting from previous studies undertaken by the Northern Rivers Basin Study (NRBS). This manuscript summarizes the results from a number of reports on hydrologic research conducted on the Peace-Athabasca-Slave river and lake systems. Specific concerns expressed by the NRBS ...

Feb. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Technical Regulations and Standards on Climate Change in 2004 - 2005 - Cases of European Union, China, Japan and Korea

In this globalised (and, in a sense, harmonised) world, a country and even an entity is not so free to play a game without complying with international and national rules of game. As usual, there exists dilemma on these rules of game in the real world. Even though international rules and national rules are closely interacting each other, in principle, international rules only provides commonly ...

Jan. 1, 2006

By Enhesa - Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

Public financing instruments to leverage private capital for climate-relevant investment: Focus on multilateral agencies

As private sector investment flows within and into developing countries rapidly increase, the public sector has a unique opportunity to ensure that these flows are directed to meet critical climate change investment needs. This paper informs the use of public funds to leverage private sector investment in climate-relevant projects. It focuses on the public sector’s use of financing ...

Dec. 1, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

How Much Is Nature Worth?

A recently published article estimated the total value of the environment to people at $145 trillion per year. That’s about twice as much as the total output of the global economy – nearly $75 trillion in 2013. Ecosystem services – clean water, clean air, temperature regulation, food production, etc. – are the myriad ways in which people benefit from nature. Environmental ...

Aug. 27, 2014

By GLOBE SERIES

Canada's efforts towards greenhouse gas emission reduction: a case study on the limits of voluntary action and subsidies

Canada has committed internationally to several agreements to limit climate change, most recently by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol in 2002. However, its domestic climate change policy is not reflective of these international commitments. In particular, federal government climate change policy over the last decade has emphasised noncompulsory policies such as voluntarism, information provision, and ...

Apr. 27, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Mapping expert perspectives of the aviation sector

Aviation globally is characterised by significant change and consequently the future of the sector has always been difficult to predict. This study adopts a systemic approach based on findings from exploratory interviews with UK aviation academics to: determine the roles of stakeholders in the air transport system; report the current issues facing the sector; explore how these issues interact and ...

May 6, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Climate Change and Visibility-Related Issues for 2002

Issues related to climate change and visibility rank as high priorities on the environmental management agenda for 2002. The following article will forecast key regulatory issues such as global climate change, NOx budget developments, and regional haze regulations in Class I areas and discuss their impact on ...

Jan. 1, 2002

By Trinity Consultants

Against harmonisation – Regulatory competition in climate change law

With climate change laws spreading fast across the globe, measures are underway to promote international harmonisation of States’ responses. Common assumption dictates that such harmonisation helps create a level playing field and hence contributes to international trade. In this contribution, I shall review whether that assumption holds (what are the attractions of regulatory competition in this ...

Mar. 1, 2008

By Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Clear Skies and business certainty - The US administration’s new proposals to curb emissions of air pollutants and carbon dioxide endorse the principle of emissions trading but leave industry waiting for regulatory certainty.

President Bush’s Global Climate Change and Clear Skies initiatives*, announced in February, end a lengthy cabinetlevel review of US emissions policy, but mark a new stage in the national policy debate over climate change and air quality regulations. Since the president’s early refutation of the Kyoto Protocol and his statement of opposition to the inclusion of carbon dioxide (CO2) in power plant ...

Jan. 1, 2002

By Environmental Markets Association (EMA)

Ask Enhesa 10: USA & Canada

Contributions from James Olaleye, Christian Petrangelo, Edith Nagy, Caitlin O’Sullivan, Gillian Wener, Danyelle Barron, and Seong Won Hong You asked and we answered! Enhesa’s team of multilingual regulatory analysts are committed to providing quality insight and analysis around the latest EHS news and developments via our Enhesa Flash, webinar series, and blog posts. In response, ...

Jan. 17, 2018

By Enhesa - Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

Enhesa webinar on Asian EHS regulatory trends breaks records

On 10 November 2011, Enhesa held the first session of its most recent webinar, Asia’s Regulatory Outlook for 2012. Between the 10 & 15 November sessions, Enhesa hit a new record of over 600 registrations for the event, beating any other Enhesa webinar by roughly 150-200 registrants! Enhesa’s Yuko Dvorak-Miyata, Sarah O’Brien and Ellen Zhang presented the ...

Nov. 15, 2011

By Enhesa - Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

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