Jan 15, 2021 | International Policy
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed his ‘10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution’, on November 18th, 2020. This policy paper sets out one of his administration’s first acknowledgements of the climate crisis. This plan is to get the UK on...
May 6, 2020 | International Policy
Bringing together the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation was the Kyoto emissions trading system. This was a system in which meeting targets and using the mechanisms involved gave you tradable carbon allowances. These commodities were generated when...
May 6, 2020 | International Policy, Key Terms and Agreements
Before the famous Paris Agreement, there was the (also famous) Kyoto Protocol. Adopted at the third COP in 1997, it didn’t come into effect until 2005, when Russia’s approval brought it up to the required 55 countries [1]. The Protocol was the first...
