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This guide provides a primer for local, regional, and national policymakers on designing domestic carbon crediting mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon dioxide removals, focusing on design options and policy trade-offs.

This policy brief discusses the importance of tracking domestic climate finance to support the low-emission transition, focusing on the application of these methodologies in Poland to address significant investment needs and improve policymaking.

This research paper analyzes the PROINFA feed-in tariff scheme in Brazil, finding that its nonlinear pricing structure incentivized wind farm operators to misreport capacity factors. This led to a 14% shortfall in expected energy production and 12% over-payments in the first year of operation. The authors demonstrate through modeling that while a linear price would increase over-reporting, an interest rate penalty of 1% on overpayments would effectively eliminate the incentive to misreport.

The ADAPTool for Creating New Policies is a Microsoft Excel-based guidance tool designed to help policy-makers develop policies, programs, strategies, or legislation that can adapt to complex and uncertain conditions, such as climate change and volatile market prices.