Carbon emissions pricing: Some points of reference https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/649352/EPRS_BRI(2020)649352_EN.pdf Carbon leakage: prevent firms from avoiding emissions rules https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20210303STO99110/carbon-leakage-prevent-firms-from-avoiding-emissions-rules CARBON TAX GUIDE:A Handbook for Policy Makers https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/728421535605566659/pdf/129668-V1-WP-PUBLIC-Carbon-Tax-Guide-Main-Report.pdf United Nations Handbook on carbon taxation for developing countries https://www.un.org/development/desa/financing/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.financing/files/2020-11/Chapter%203_Design_UN%20CarbonTax%20Handbook.pdf Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy https://hbr.org/2019/05/future-proof-your-climate-strategy Smart companies are putting their own price on carbon. by Joseph E. Aldy and Gianfranco Gianfrate From the Harvard Business Review (May–June 2019) Carbon pricing in the Netherlands (ppt) https://www.pwc.nl/nl/dienstverlening/tax/documents/pwc-state-of-tax-energy-transition-9-2-2021.pdf

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CHAPTER 1. Europe Classical and Medieval1 EUROPEAN CIVILISATION IS UNIQUE because it is the only civilisation which has imposed itself on the rest of the world. It did this by conquest and settlement; by its economic power; by the power of its ideas; and because it had things that everyone else wanted. Today every country on earth uses the discoveries of science and the technologies that flow from it, and science was a European invention.

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Abstract While many countries seek to set a price for carbon emissions, significant price dispersion and relative stringency keep raising concerns on carbon leakage. We quantify the competitiveness impact of the EU CBAM based on the multi-regional Input-Output approach.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852417303516#f0010 Abstract Sustainability of a bioenergy project depends on precise assessment of biomass resource, planning of cost-effective logistics and evaluation of possible environmental implications. In this context, this paper reviews the role and applications of geo-spatial tool such as Geographical Information System (GIS) for precise agro-residue resource assessment, biomass logistic and power plant design. Further, application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in understanding the potential impact of agro-residue bioenergy generation on different ecosystem services has also been reviewed and limitations associated with LCA variability and uncertainty were discussed.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13018 Abstract Here, we present the LC-IMPACT method that provides characterization factors at the damage level for 11 impact categories related to three areas of protection (human health, ecosystem quality, natural resources).

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This study quantifies the potential effects of land restoration for soil, food, water, biodiversity and climate change at the global and regional levels, using three global land-use scenarios up to 2050. https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/the-global-potential-for-land-restoration-scenarios-for-the-global-land-outlook-2 https://www.pbl.nl/sites/default/files/downloads/pbl-2021-the-global-potential-for-land-restoration-glo2-3898.pdf https://themasites.pbl.nl/nature-based-solutions/nature-based-solutions Nature-based solutions and scenarios Nature-based Solutions (BbS) are actions that enable the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural and managed ecosystems, that can simultaneously provide human well-being an biodiversity benefits. Nature-based solutions (NbS) include restoration, management, and rehabilitation measures, as well as conservation of ecosystems, that enhance nature’s contribution to people, such as agroforestry, conservation agriculture, assisted natural regeneration and urban green and blue spaces.

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Session 3 Purpose This software session focuses on reproducing the results of an LCA paper on economic allocation, defining functional flows and identifying multi functional processes, with the software program CMLCA. In today’s exercises, you will learn: to understand the main principles of economic allocation; how such analyses work in CMLCA software. You may perform the exercise alone or together with (a) colleague(s) in a virtual room, and again, you don’t have to hand in the results.

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