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The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law. Edited by CINNAMON P CARLARNE, KEVIN R GRAY and RICHARD TARASOFSKY
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Oxford University Press
, 2017 , Article)
The urgency of climate change necessitates considering what types of governance options are available when the existing approaches are failing.1
The United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s ...
Governance in the era of Blockchain technology in Qatar: a roadmap and a manual for Trade Finance
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2021 , Article)
Nations worldwide have sought to capitalize on the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) including Blockchain, but struggled to strike a balance between encouraging investment and innovation in the technology ...
Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism
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Oxford Academic
, 2015 , Article)
Chinese and Emirati purchases of US companies have collapsed because of suspicions that their Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) status is a disguise for political ambitions. SWFs have grown in size and number, drawing the attention ...
Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law: A Study of the Ramotswa Aquifer
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Brill
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Big data analytics is transforming the water sector at the national and international levels. Its potential impact on transboundary water resource governance is being assessed, for example, in the context of selected basins, ...
Fiscal tools for inclusion of GCC states in the global environmental programme: Focus upon new vehicle imports
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Edward Elgar
, 2012 , Book chapter)
QATAR
Maritime Emissions Taxation: An Alternative to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
(2014 , Article)
The advent of the eighteenth session of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Conference of the Parties (COP18)1 internationalized a new sense
of urgency2 towards preventing the planet ...
Fintech and the city: Sandbox 2.0 policy and regulatory reform proposals
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
Recognising the economic value of London hosting 17 of the world’s top 50 FinTech firms, HM Treasury’s strategy is determined ‘to ensure Britain remains the best place in the world to set up and grow a FinTech business.’ ...
Review of The International Law of the Sea by Donald R Rothwell
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Kluwer Law International
, 2017 , Book Review)
In a world where piracy, drug trafficking, terrorism, nuclear tests, climate change and the
acidification of the sea now threaten the liberty of ocean vessels to conduct their business,
the historic rules governing the ...
Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
The vast transactional, trust and security advantages of Bitcoin are dwarfed by the intentionally resource-intensive design in its transaction verification process which now threatens the climate we depend upon for survival. ...
Enforcement Activism of the EU’ cement Activism of the EU’s Renewable Ener s Renewable Energy Directive During the Global Financial Crisis
(2014 , Article)
The American “shale revolution”1
has been an economic blessing
in a troubled time,2
a blessing the EU (“European Union”) has largely not
enjoyed.3
It may prove, however, to have been a double-edged sword. If
the ...