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Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs generally aim to boost domestic value creation and economic growth, inappropriately designed LCRs could produce negative social, human rights and environmental outcomes, and a misalignment of a country's fiscal policies and global sustainable development goals. These unintended outcomes may ultimately serve as disincentive to foreign participation in a country's energy market. This book outlines the guiding principles of a sustainable and rights-based approach - focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice and other human rights issues - to the design, application and implementation of LCRs in global energy markets to avoid misalignments.

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The Government of Ontario has unveiled the underlying legal framework for its cap-and-trade program. Like the European Union Emissions Trading System, the proposed Act places a cap on carbon emissions and facilitates the trading of pollution allowances. The ultimate objectives of the Act are to reduce the emission of GHGs, while providing financial incentives to businesses. This article assesses the proposed Act with respect to the criteria of a robust capand trade system, including: effectiveness; comprehensiveness; transparency and fairness; and offset eligibility.

Oil spills trigger the application of several interrelated national, regional, and international laws and regulations that provide windows of redress for victims. This paper provides a summary of the legal and sustainable development principles at play where oil spills occur. It provides a simplified synopsis of the relevant principles of international environmental law through which victims of oil spillage can seek compensation. It also highlights the absence of a comprehensive convention on safety standards for oil platforms in international laws applicable to oil spillage.

1. Introduction: Nature and Scope of the International Gas Market (Damilola S. Olawuyi & Eduardo G. Pereira) -- 2. Technological revolution in natural gas developments and LNG: policy advancements and their implications on national and international market (Miriam R. Aczel) -- 3. The Role of Natural Gas in a Just and Equitable Energy Transition (Damilola S. Olawuyi) -- 4. Natural Gas and Energy Security (S. Duygu Sever) -- 5. The Hydrogen Revolution and Natural Gas: A New Dawn in the European Union? (Ruven Fleming) -- 6. LNG's Role in a Decarbonising Energy System: Lessons from the United Kingdom (Omran H. Al-Kuwari) -- 7. Russian Natural Gas Exports and the Energy Transition (James Henderson) -- 8. Regulating Gas Flaring Emissions from Upstream Operations on US Federal Lands and in Nigeria (Tade Oyewunmi) -- 9. A Political Economy of Energy Transition: Privatizing Natural Gas Assets in Gulf Arab States (Robert Mogielnicki) -- 10. Natural gas subsidies and their implications for the global energy transition (Marcelo Neuman) -- 11. Legal Framework for Promoting Natural Gas in the Energy Transition: Lessons from Brazil's New Gas Law (Thiago de Freitas Benevenuto, Eduardo G. Pereira, and Fernanda Delgado) -- 12. Natural Gas and Energy Transition for large international oil companies (Wellington Otto Bahnemann, Eduardo Pereira, & Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa) -- 13. Decarbonizing Shipping and the Role of LNG: International Law and Policy Trends (Ruixuan Zhuo & Hui Wang) -- 14. The Financing Spectrum for LNG Projects (Gabriel A. Onagoruwa) -- 15. Host Government Instruments and Natural Gas Provisions (Eduardo G. Pereira, Hirdan Costa, Eze Emem Chioma, Indira Rampaul-Cheddie, Terrance Ali, Saelese Haynes, & Aaron Koenck) -- 16. Managing Energy Transition Risks in the Natural Gas Industry: Role of Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning (EPCC) Contracts (Hilary Christina Bell) -- 17. Regulatory and technical opportunities for reducing flaring and venting operations in oil and gas fields in Brazil (Gustavo Castro Ribeiro, Eduardo G Pereira, Alicia Elias-Roberts, Alberto José Fossa, Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa, Thaiz da Silva Vescovi, Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos, & João Victor Correia Lopes) -- 18. Climate risk and physical resilience: adapting natural gas pipeline infrastructure for the clean energy transition in Canada (Rudiger Tscherning) -- 19. Protecting Natural Gas Investments: Trends in investment treaties & investors projections (Victoria R. Nalule) -- 20. International trade rules and natural gas export: trends and challenges in national markets (Qaraman Mohammed Hasan & Hemin Mohammed Ismael) -- 21. Harnessing Opportunities for Synergy between Natural Gas and Renewable Energy: Trends and Legal Requirements (Cameron Kelly) -- 22. Energy Transition and the Role of Women: Advancing Gender-Aware Transition in the Natural Gas Industry (E. Smaranda Olarinde & Hilary Okoeguale) -- 23. Promoting Cooperation in Natural Gas Development: Lessons from The Balkans and The Eastern Mediterranean (Ali Dirioz) -- 24. Energy Transitions and the Future of Natural Gas Law, Policy, and Research (Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan, Irekpitan Okukpon, & Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe) -- 25. The future of natural gas: synthesis and summary for policy makers (Eduardo G. Pereira and Damilola S. Olawuyi). .