Research Reports

Research Reports

Reports presenting thorough synthesis regarding the last CDC Climat Research’ insights.


Climate Report n°33 « Joint Implementation: a frontier mechanism within the borders of an emissions cap »

March 8 2012

Climate Report n°33 « Joint Implementation: a frontier mechanism within the borders of an emissions cap »

Based on specific projects rather than economy-wide emissions reductions, and driven by the (...)

February 27 2012

Climate Report n°32 « Financing climate actions in developing countries: what role is there for NAMAs? »

The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) framework has emerged as a result of the (...)

February 3 2012

Carbon Leakage in the Primary Aluminium Sector: What evidence after 6 ½ years of the EU ETS?

This paper provides an econometric analysis of the evidence of carbon leakage from the European (...)

January 23 2012

Climate Report n°31 « Carbon offset projects in the agricultural sector »

The agricultural sector accounts for 14% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (...)

January 13 2012

The risks of CDM projects: how did only 30% of expected credits come through?

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM ), launched in 2001, has attracted more than 7 000 (...)

November 7 2011

Climate Report n°30 « The role of regional authorities in public support for renewable energies : examples in Europe and France »

The European Union (EU) has set ambitious targets for the development of renewable energies by (...)

September 30 2011

Climate Report n°29 « Voluntary carbon offsetting by local authorities : practices and lessons »

Local authorities (regions, departments, metropolitan areas and towns) are increasingly (...)

June 14 2011

Assessment of supply-demand balance for Kyoto offsets

The purpose of this document is to estimate the supply and potential demand as regards Kyoto (...)

June 10 2011

Climate Report n°28 « Design of multi-sector Emissions Trading Systems: a comparison of European and American experiences »

Europe and the United States have tried to establish coherent climate and energy legislation (...)

April 20 2011

Climate Report n°27 « Drawing up a national climate change adaptation policy: feedback from five European case studies »

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) introduced the adaptation (...)