EC DG-Environment European Green Capital Award

Another good gesture to highlight European efforts at Sustainability. The European Green Capital Awards.

"The European Green Capital Award was conceived as an initiative to promote and reward these efforts, to spur cities to commit to further action, and to showcase and encourage exchange of best practice among European cities."

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/about-the-award/index.html

Way to go Europe !!!!

Border Carbon Adjustments

Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs) are also known as border tax adjustments (BTAs), or border tax measures, (BTMs).
Essentially they are unilateral measures that a state imposes when a good is imported from an industry or firm in a country that has not ‘comparably offset’ the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the good’s production.
The stated aim is to prevent carbon leakage.
BCA could be a flat tariff, a tax, or a requirement for the importer to purchase carbon credits that would compensate the country with more stringent regulations for the loss of competitiveness that it incurs because of its emissions standards.

Aaron Cosbey(ICTSD) has done estimates for impact on South African (29% of exports exposed to 2.7 billion Rand in Adjustment taxes) & Indian (23.5%) exports towards the EU, in the presence of an imaginary BCA in the EU.

Source: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva (Not-for-Profit Think tank)

Climate action Necessary to tackle threat to Growth

Vinod Thomas (ADB) & Manish Bapna (World Resource Institute)
present the need for climate action to avoid threat to Growth in this ET article:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/guest-writer/climate-change-the-new-threat-to-economic-growth/articleshow/13003263.cms

CV of the authors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Thomas
http://www.wri.org/profile/manish-bapna

Resource Site on REGULATION

Found this cool link about Infrastructure Regulation maintained by the World Bank & University of Florida

http://www.regulationbodyofknowledge.org/