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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I Climate Change and Mitigation:Overview and Key Themes ; 1 Climate Finance for Limiting Emissions and Promoting Green Development: Mechanisms, Regulation, and Governance ; 2 Understanding the Causes and Implications of Climate Change ; 3 The Climate Financing Problem: Funds Needed for Global Climate Change Mitigation Vastly Exceed Funds Currently Available ; 4 Th e Future of Climate Governance: Creating a More Flexible Architecture ; Part II Proposals for Climate Finance: Regulatory and Market Mechanisms and Incentives A. Trading or Taxes? ; 5 Cap-and-Trade Is Preferable to a Carbon Tax ; B. Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM ) ; 6 Expectations and Reality of the Clean Development Mechanism: A Climate Finance Instrument between Accusation and Aspirations ; C. Sectoral Programs for Emissions Control and Crediting ; 7 Why a Successful Climate Change Agreement Needs Sectoral Elements ; 8 Sectoral Crediting: Getting the Incentives Right for Private Investors ; 9 Forest and Land Use Programs Must Be Given Financial Credit in Any Climate Change Agreement ; 10 Stock-and-Flow Mechanisms to Reduce Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry Emissions: A Proposal from Brazil ; D. Leveraging Trading to Maximize Climate Benefits ; 11 Mitigating Climate Change at Manageable Cost: The Catalyst Proposal ; 12 Engaging Developing Countries by Incentivizing Early Action ; E. Linking Trading Systems ; 13 Carbon Market Design: Beyond the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ; F. Investor Perspectives ; 14 Incentivizing Private Investment in Climate ChangeMitigation ; 15 Investment Opportunities and Catalysts: Analysis and Proposals from the Climate Finance Industry on Funding Climate Mitigation ; Part III Bringing Developed and Developing Countries Together in Climate Finance Bargains: Trust, Governance, and Mutual Conditionality ; A. Meeting Developing Country Climate Finance Priorities ; 16 Developing Country Concerns about Climate Finance Proposals: Priorities, Trust, and the Credible Donor Problem ; 17 Developing Countries and a Proposal for Architecture and Governance of a Reformed UNFCCC Financial Mechanism ; 18 Climate Change and Development: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mitigation for Developing Countries? ; 19 Operationalizing a Bottom-Up Regime: Registering and Crediting NAMAs ; B. Conditionality and Its Governance ; 20 From Coercive Conditionality to Agreed Conditions: The Only Future for Future Climate Finance ; 21 Getting Climate-Related Conditionality Right ; 22 Making Climate Financing Work: What Might Climate Change Experts Learn from the Experience of Development Assistance? ; Part IV National Policies: Implications for the FutureGlobal Climate Finance Regime ; 23 Climate Legislation in the United States: Potential Framework and Prospects for International Carbon Finance ; 24 The EU ETS: Experience to Date and Lessons for the Future ; 25 Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation Measures in China ; 26 Cities and GHG Emissions Reductions: An Opportunity We Cannot Afford to Miss ; 27 A Prototype for Strategy Change in Oil-Exporting MENA States? The Masdar Initiative in Abu Dhabi ; Part V Climate Finance and World Trade Organization (WTO) Law and Policy ; 28 The WTO and Climate Finance: Overview of the Key Issues ; 29 Carbon Trading and the CDM in WTO Law ; 30 Countervailing Duties and Subsidies for Climate Mitigation: What Is, and What Is Not, WTO-Compatible? ; 31 Border Climate Adjustment as Climate Policy ; 32 Enforcing Climate Rules with Trade Measures: Five Recommendations for Trade Policy Monitoring ; 33 Carbon Footprint Labeling in Climate Finance: Governance and Trade Challenges of Calculating Products' Carbon Content ; Part VI Taxation of Carbon Markets ; 34 Fiscal Considerations in Curbing Climate Change ; 35 Tax and Effi ciency under Global Cap-and-Trade ; 36 Tax Consequences of Carbon Cap-and-Trade Schemes: Free Permits and Auctioned Permits ; Afterword: Reflections on a Path to Effective Climate Change Mitigation