| Accounting for Carbon: Monitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy Contributor(s): Bellassen, Valentin (Editor), Stephan, Nicolas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107098483 ISBN-13: 9781107098480 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $139.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| LCCN: 2014043078 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (2.20 lbs) 564 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ability to accurately monitor, record, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions is the cornerstone of any effective policy to mitigate climate change. Accounting for Carbon provides the first authoritative overview of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions from the industrial site, project and company level to the regional and national level. It describes the MRV procedures in place in more than fifteen of the most important policy frameworks - such as emissions trading systems in Europe, Australia, California and China, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - and compares them along key criteria such as scope, cost, uncertainty and flexibility. This book draws on the work of engineers and economists to provide a practical guide to help government and non-governmental policymakers and key stakeholders in industry to better understand different MRV requirements, the key trade-offs faced by regulators and the choices made by up-and-running carbon pricing initiatives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bellassen, Valentin: - Valentin Bellassen is a researcher at Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) where he focuses on the economics of agro-ecology. He is also an accredited UNFCCC reviewer for national greenhouse gas inventories. For four years, he worked at CDC Climat where he managed the research unit on MRV, agriculture and forestry.Stephan, Nicolas: - Nicolas Stephan is an investment officer at CDC Climat where he is in charge of voluntary carbon offsetting as well as participations in innovative carbon investment vehicles. He worked for five years in the research department of CDC Climat on various topics related to carbon and energy markets. |