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Publications bibliography and links

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CDM generally

UNFCCC CDM website at http://www.unfccc.int/cdm/

World Business Council for Sustainable Development CDM Pages at http://www.wbcsd.org/web/energycdm.htm

The Clean Development Mechanism: Exploring for solutions through learning http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=280

Energy & Climate case studies http://www.wbcsd.org/web/energycase.htm

Pembina Institute “A User’s Guide to the Clean Development Mechanism” at http://www.pembina.org/

“Lessons from the Prototype Carbon Fund” at http://www.itut.de/cdm/pages/aboutCDM_protype.html

CDM Watch at http://www.cdmwatch.org/validate_list.php

Climate Protection Programme: “Ready for the CDM?” at http://www.gtz.de/climate/publications/specials/Bereit-f-d-CDM-CaPP-Publikation-engl.pdf

“CDM connect” at http://www.cdm-connect.org/sponsors.asp

CDMCapacity.org at http://www.cdmcapacity.org/index.htm

Eddy N & Wiser G, “Public Participation in the Clean Development Mechanism of the
Kyoto Protocol” , http://www.ciel.org/Publications/CDM_PubPartic.pdf


Publications by CDM Africa & its consultants

Van den Berg J & Friedenthal J “Background paper on a legal framework for the CDM in developing countries” UNEP August 2003 – click here PDF file

ERC CDM Manual – click here

Van den Berg J "Climate Change/CDM: Energy Policy Options and legal constraints" click here (to download a PDF FILE).

Climate Change Texts

Text of the UNFCCC at http://unfccc.int/resource/conv/

Text of the Kyoto Protocol at http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html

Marrakech Accords at http://unfccc.int/cop7/documents/accords_draft.pdf

Pew Centre of Global Climate change at http://www.pewclimate.org/

United Nations University et al “Global Climate Governance at http://www.geic.or.jp/climgov/Unu_repo.pdf

International law

Brownlie “Principles of Public International Law” Oxford University Press 5th Edition

Dugard “International Law” Juta 2000 edition

“International Law” by Botha in “the Law of South Africa”, vol 11

Edwards “The law of South Africa” vol 2 (reissue)

The international lex mercatoria generally

Trebilcock & Howse “The regulation of international trade” Routledge 2nd edition

Van Houtte “The law of international trade” Sweet & Maxwell 2nd edition (2002)

Petersman (editor) “International Trade Law and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System”

“Lex Mercatoria” at http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/..

“Unidroit principles of international commercial contracts” at http://www.unidroit.org/english/principles/intro-1.htm


Climate Change/CDM and the WTO

Kim “Potential limits imposed by the multilateral trading system in implementing flexibility mechanisms” http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/publications/wp/gec/ gec2000_19.pdf

Brewer “The Kyoto Protocol and the WTO: Institutional evolution and adaptation” at http://www.ceps.be

Wiser “Frontiers in Trade: The Clean Development Mechanism and the General Agreement on Trade in Services” at http://www.ciel.org/Publications/CDM_ GATTs_Wiser.pdf

Cosbey “The Kyoto Protocol and the WTO” at www.iisd.org/pdf/kyoto.pdf
www.ceps.be/Pubs/2002/No28KyotoProtocolAndWTO.pdf

Sampson “WTO Rules and Climate Change: The need for Policy Coherence” at http://www.geic.or.jp/climgov/04.pdf


Sampson “Rules that Govern World Trade and Climate Change” http://www.unu.edu/inter-linkages/docs/DiscussionP/2000_04_Gary.pdf

“Multilateral trading system” at http://www.mre.gov.br/boletim/multilateral-i.htm


CDM and international Investment Law

Werksman et al “Will International Investment Rules obstruct climate protection policies?” at http://pdf.wri.org/investrules.pdf

Werksman & Santoro “Investing in Sustainable development: the potential interaction between the Kyoto Protocol and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at http://www.geic.or.jp/climgov/06.pdf


CDM and energy policy

Vernon “Carbon taxes” at http://www.iea-coal.org.uk/publishing/greenhouse/ieaper01.htm

Sue Scott and John Eakins “Carbon Taxes: which households gain or lose? www.esri.ie./PUBLICATIONS/SUMMARIES/Sky_Sscott_Paper2.PDF and note the list of references at the end of the document

Ontario Trucking Association “Carbon taxes” at http://www.ontruck.org/issues/docs/carbon.htm

http://www.energetics.com.au/greenhouse_emissions/carbontax.html



Emissions trading

International Emissions Trading Association at http://www.ieta.org

Van Weerd at http://prototypecarbonfund.org/router.cfm?Page=DocLib&Dtype=12


WTO panel decisions

United States – Restrictions on Imports of Tuna (1991) 30 ILM 1594.
Superfund BISD 34th Suppl (1988) 136
Taxes on Automobiles case DS 31/R
Reformulated Gasoline case (WT/DS2/R)
Herring and Salmon case BISD 35S (`1988) 98;
The Lobsters case 3 TCT 8182;
The Canadian Tuna case BISD 29th Suppl (1982) p 99
Dolphin/Tunafish 1; Dolphin/Tunafish 2 GATT doc DS29/R;
The Turtles case WT/DS58/RT


CDM and Contract Law

Worika et al “Contractual aspects of implementing the Clean Development Mechanism and other Flexibility Mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol” http://www.geic.or.jp/climgov/07.pdf

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