Abstract
Rosenzweig has a 25-year career working in government and business to create and use environmental markets to reduce air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) that cause climate change. He served as the Chief of Staff of the Department of Energy (DOE) in the Clinton Administration and participated in efforts to create US climate policy. Rosenzweig was also the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Natsource, the world’s largest buyer of carbon credits through 2007. Based on this experience, he assesses the policies proposed in the US and adopted internationally, such as the Kyoto Protocol (KP), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which comprised the global carbon markets. Rosenzweig draws on lessons learned to recommend future policies to reduce GHGs emissions.
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Rosenzweig, R.H. (2016). Introduction. In: Global Climate Change Policy and Carbon Markets. Energy, Climate and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56051-3_1
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