Carbon offset, Carbon pricing, Energy, Environment, Transportation

(Assistant Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University)/ /Leave a comment

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is currently considering the implementation of a basket of measures to decarbonize international shipping. These are to be in line with the climate mitigation targets included in the Initial IMO GHG Strategy — including reducing GHG emissions from shipping by at least 50 percent by 2050 over 2008 levels —…

cap-and-trade, Carbon Tax, Environment

(Assistant Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University) and (Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at Maastricht University and Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics at Erasmus School of Law)/ /Leave a comment

 “Green recovery” is one of the key themes of the stimulus packages implemented worldwide in response to the Covid-19-related economic downturn. Traditionally, the answer to economic crises has focused on monetary policy and financial assistance programmes. However, as interest rates get closer to the zero lower bound, alternative stimulus policies are gaining attention in academic…