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Almost five years ago the concept of joint implementation, at the time a concept ‘avant la lettre’, was introduced at the international Climate Conference in Noordwijk in 1989. For that meeting, a report had been drawn up, underlining the need for an international cost-effective approach to the climate issue. The key assumption was and still is that the marginal costs of measures, aiming at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, could differ drastically from country to country. This played a major role in the negotiations which resulted in a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, presented exactly two years ago, at the UN Conference on Environment and Development.
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Alders, H. (1995). Opening Address to the Conference. In: Jepma, C.J. (eds) The Feasibility of Joint Implementation. Environment & Policy, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8559-0_2
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