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DOCUMENTS...ECONOMICS AND TRADE DOCUMENTS...The documents listed here have been written by users or contacts of the Mineral Resources Forum. They are not endorsed by UNEP or UNCTAD. We hope that you will find them to be useful and interesting.
If you want to find a specific document or organization, please use the find facility of your browser to search the text of this page. Organization: Noranda Inc. URL This is a landmark speech made on September 29, 1997 by the then President of Noranda. http://WWW.noranda.COM/english/includes/norpratt97-2.html Organization: Center for International Climate
and Environmental Research (CICERO) URL Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol will change energy markets. The resulting price shifts will represent important terms-of-trade changes. This paper explores how different countries’ relationships to fossil fuel markets will cause variations in the costs of implementation of the Protocol. http://www.cicero.uio.no/~ftp/publications/workingpapers/wp1999-09.pdf Organization: Resources for the Future URL Carolyn Fischer and Michael Toman address a popular notion in recent discussions of environmental policy -- that there are substantial opportunities for improving the environment and the economy through the elimination of various subsidies that distort decisions made by producers and consumers. Fischer and Toman define the several kinds of subsidies that can cause damage to the environment; discuss some challenges that arise in quantifying these subsidies; and provide examples of energy-related subsidies that they deem as economically-inefficient as well as subsidies that are intended to promote outcomes that are beneficial to the environment. http://www.rff.org/issue_briefs/PDF_files/ccbrf14.pdf Organization: Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development URL This paper examines technical issues related to implementation of emissions trading under article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol. It emphasises that ideally, legal entities such as firms should participate in international emissions trading to improve market efficiency. http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/freedocs.htm#trad5 Organization: Resources for the Future URL For an international trading system of credits for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be seen as a credible option in addressing climate change, legal responsibility -- or liability -- must be assigned for the failure of promised emission reductions. Suzi Kerr examines the institutional background for international emissions trading; considers the assignment of liability in an international GHG trading system for Annex I countries; focuses on the assignment of liability when the "seller" country fails to fall within compliance of its Kyoto Protocol targets; and addresses issues of credibility and liability in the context of joint ventures within the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism. http://www.rff.org/issue_briefs/PDF_files/ccbrf15.pdf. Organization: World Bank URL The authors explore whether presumptive charges can be important complementary measures in a cost-effective pollution control program. Their analysis concludes one can tax a bad - such as pollution - by taxing a good or product - such as fuel - when the monitoring of emissions is prohibitively expensive. http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/taxbads/index.htm Organization: World Bank URL The authors explore whether ranking toxic pollution emissions without accounting for the toxicity risks of different pollutants may lead to flawed priorities and misallocation of resources by environmental regulators. Their findings suggest that it is important for environmental regulators to engage into weighting pollutants for their relative toxicity risk when prioritizing pollution control effort either at the industrial or regional level. http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/risks/index.htm Organization: World Bank Development Research Group URL http://www.worldbank.org/research/peg/
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