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November 12, 2022 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt–During a side event at the United Nations climate talks, government representatives from Chile and New Zealand expressed interest in and support for exploring the creation of a Climate Action Team agreement between the two

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Par of Environmental Defense Fund’s Economics Discussion Paper Series, this report represents a first approximation of the mitigation potential and its costs, since the implementation of any of the actions presented may require a whole set of analyses to determine

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(SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – 21 July, 2022) During a side event at Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW), government representatives from Chile and New Zealand expressed interest in and support for exploring the creation of a Climate

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This report, written in Spanish, presents the Climate Action Teams approach for international collaboration through the transfer of carbon credits. The report has the Chilean audience in mind, with Chile as a potential host country, but it is also very

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In a June 2021 article for Chilean newspaper Diario Financiero, Luis Gonzales Carrasco, from Universidad Catolica, points at Climate Teams as a promising approach for Chile to attract foreign investment for climate change mitigation. Full article here  (in Spanish)

Implementación de Equipos Climáticos en Chile: Una propuesta para combatir el cambio climático y la contaminación local Published: 2020 Authors:  Suzi Kerr, Francisco Pinto Chile ha avanzado en materia de política pública ambiental y climática, ha implementado una infraestructura institucional

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Financial Transfers and Climate Cooperation Published: 2019 Authors:  Suzi Kerr, Steffen Lippert, Edmund Lou Transfers of money can help reduce free riding. When should we give them? We investigate the impact of side-payments to countries that have a low net benefit

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Transfers, self-enforcing agreements and climate cooperation Published: 2018 Authors: Steffen Lippert, Edmund Lou, Suzi Kerr International agreements addressing climate change must overcome the difficulties implied by the absence of an institution with the power to ensure compliance. They have to be self-enforcing: the

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A new approach to emissions trading in a post-Paris climate Published: 2018 Authors: Catherine Leining, Suzi Kerr New Zealand cannot and must not rely on international markets to set our future domestic emission price. As both taxpayers and responsible global citizens, we need

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Report for the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Published: 2018 Authors: Ruben Lubowski and Robert Heilmayr The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements released a volume of fifteen briefs examining approaches to international cooperation in East Asia to address climate change. Most

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On November 12, 2022, Suzi Kerr, Chief Economist and Mandy Rambharos, Vice President of Global Climate Cooperation at the Environmental Defense Fund, participated in an IETA BusinessHUB Pavilion event at #COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, exploring new models for international

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Suzi Kerr, chief economist at Environmental Defense Fund, presented at the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International

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The Climate Action Teams (CAT) event at Climate Week 2021 convened researchers, modelers, policymakers and the private sector to discuss the potential to achieve ambitious emissions reductions through international cooperation in carbon markets, using Climate Action Teams (CAT) agreements. José

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The Climate Teams initiative convened experts from IEA, IETA, Wuppertal Institute, Universidad Catolica, Universidad de Chile, Perspectives and EDF, as well as Government representatives from Chile and Switzerland. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the appropriate design of

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On the 22nd of June, the Climate Teams initiative convened a team of climate mitigation modelers from Chile and New Zealand, as well as Government representatives from both countries, and international modelling experts. The objectives of the meeting were to:

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Economists and leadership toward low-emission societies Published: 2019 Author: Suzi Kerr Event: Australasian Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics – President’s Address, February 2019 Climate change is the biggest environmental challenge of our time. Because it is so far reaching

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Cooperation and emissions price harmonisation without linking: prospects for ‘climate teams’ in East Asia Date: 2017 Presenter: Suzi Kerr Event: International Cooperation in East Asia to Address Climate Change, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Shanghai

A mechanism for cooperation under Article 6.2 Date: 2018 Presenter: Suzi Kerr Event:  Climate Teams breakfast event at the Global Climate Action Summit, San Francisco, California, 11 September 2018  

Korean experience with reforestation Date: 2018 Presenters: Seong-il Kim and Dong-hwan Kim Event: Workshop in May 2018 Dong-hwan Kim and Seong-il Kim gave this presentation to a climate team studying reforestation. South Korea is a leading example of how a nation can successfully reforest.

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Climate teams presentation –  University of Pennsylvania Date: 2019 Presenter: Suzi Kerr A presentation by Suzi Kerr at University of Pennsylvania on how a Climate Teams model could work internationally to get the globe to net-zero long-lived greenhouse gas emissions. This

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Suzi Kerr, chief economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, discusses a new framework for global emissions trading under the Paris Climate Accord, intended to incentivize ambitious and sustained emissions reductions. The ‘Climate Teams’ plan organizes small groups of countries that

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