Comments on: Less costly to buy carbon units – report https://carbonoffsetsdaily.com/news-channels/global/less-costly-to-buy-carbon-units-report-8969.htm Daily carbon offset news, insight, community. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Gilder https://carbonoffsetsdaily.com/news-channels/global/less-costly-to-buy-carbon-units-report-8969.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6353 Andrew Gilder Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:47:35 +0000 https://carbonoffsetsdaily.com/?p=8969#comment-6353 Is it not simply the case that Annex I countries are required, inter alia by the set of obligations that emerged from the UNFCCC process as the Marrakesh Accords (now adopted as decisions of the COP), to take significant domestic action to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions profile, and that use of carbon units in meeting an emissions reduction obligation can only be supplemental to such domestic action? Consequently, the notion that purchase of carbon units to mitigate an Annex I country's entire emissions reductions obligation would not occur due to its being "politically untenable" misses the point that such a purchase is not legal a option available to Annex I countries. Comments appreciated. Is it not simply the case that Annex I countries are required, inter alia by the set of obligations that emerged from the UNFCCC process as the Marrakesh Accords (now adopted as decisions of the COP), to take significant domestic action to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions profile, and that use of carbon units in meeting an emissions reduction obligation can only be supplemental to such domestic action?
Consequently, the notion that purchase of carbon units to mitigate an Annex I country’s entire emissions reductions obligation would not occur due to its being “politically untenable” misses the point that such a purchase is not legal a option available to Annex I countries.

Comments appreciated.

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