CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Butora, Erika |
|---|---|
| Title | Environmental legislation in the European Union with special interest to the Kyoto Protocol |
| Summary | The aim of the thesis is to give an overview about the legal background of a business-friendly environmental protection. The Kyoto Protocol established the three flexible mechanisms; Joint implementation, Clean Development Mechanism and Emission Trading. The Protocol initiated a chain of actions; one of them is the establishment of the biggest emission trading system, the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. After the short presentation of the main pillars of the Kyoto Protocol I will analyze the Directive creating the EU ETS. I will also present the so called Linking Directive which tides the Kyoto mechanism with the European emission trading. I will present the important European Court of Justice cases to identify the main discrepancies in the current emission scheme. I will present the US Acid Rain Program and with identifying its main characteristics I will show what elements made the Program successful. The purpose of my thesis is to identify the elements of a legal environment which are necessary to make the Emission Trading Scheme successful and profitable for the participating stakeholders. |
| Supervisor | Hay Peter |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/butora_erika.pdf |
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