Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7467943 | Environmental Science & Policy | 2014 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Our analysis shows that the French guidance, in spite of its laudable ambition, does not address the institutional arrangements and science base needed to reach the policy's objective of NNL. The burden of designing and building adequate institutional arrangements is shifted down to local and regional permitting authorities, and even developers themselves. Consequently, and in spite of the increasing demand for offsets, the result is a highly variable and often ineffective project by project approach to offset supply, with minimal commitments. Unless the institutional and scientific challenges are tackled, the likely outcome will be an expansion of “paper offsets”.
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Authors
Fabien Quétier, Baptiste Regnery, Harold Levrel,