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Boycotting tropical timber reduces its economic value and provides an incentive to burn down forests, making them available for subsequent agricultural use or livestock farming. In contrast, a certification scheme for sustainably produced timber (tropical or non-tropical) protects the forests by raising their economic value. Examined here the impact of a certification scheme on German demand for tropical timber. A partial-equilibrium model is developed for the German tropical timber market as a whole as well as for five important submarkets representing 50% of the total demand. The results...

In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism - used for reaching the targets. The contributions in this volume reveal that flexible instruments can lower the costs of climate protection considerably - not only in theory, but also in practice. Concerning implementation, it will be necessary to take care of possible loopholes,...

Es wird untersucht, welche Konsequenzen sich aus dem Kioto-Protokoll fur die klimapolitische Instrumentenwahl in Deutschland und Europa ergeben. Thematisiert werden insbesondere die Bedeutung von Transaktionskosten bei der Wahl klimapolitischer Instrumente, fruhzeitige Vermeidungsaktivitaten (Early Crediting) und rechtliche Fragen bei der Implementation von CO2-Zertifikatesystemen."