Add subclasses of policy instrument and reclassify existing policy instrument
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economic instrument: An economic instrument is a policy instrument that creates monetary (price) incentives to stimulate transformative measures.
regulatory instrument: A regulatory instrument is a policy instrument that stipulates rules made by a government (=institution) to control the way something is done.
information instrument: An information instrument is a policy instrument that aims at providing knowledge to persons and/or institutions to stimulate transformative measures.
education instrument: An education instrument is a policy instrument that aims at teaching the necessary understanding and skills to specific groups of people so that these are enabled to perform specific transformative measures.
voluntary agreement instrument: A voluntary agreement instrument is a policy instrument that uses voluntary instruments between a government (institution) and one or more private institutions. The agreement's goal is to ensure transformative measures by the participating private institutions.
voluntary agreement: A voluntary agreement is a contract between a government (institution) and one or more private institutions. The agreements goal is to ensure transformative measures by the participating private institutions.
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effort sharing: Effort sharing is a ~policy~ regulatory instrument that sets a common emission reduction goal for a number of countries. Each country has a national reduction goal. Under- or overachievement of that goal can be compensated by trading emission certificates.
feed-in tariff: A feed-in tariff is ~a policy~ an economic instrument designed to stimulate investment in renewable energy technologies by offering long-term contracts to agents who are producers of renewable energy.
levy: A levy is ~a policy~ an economic instrument that consists of a compulsory financial charge imposed on an agent or institution by a governmental organisation.
market premium: A market premium is ~a policy~ an economic instrument that ensures a guaranteed remuneration, e.g. a fixed feed-in tariff, by paying to the producing agent the difference between a guaranteed return on a good/product and the monetary price for which the good/product is traded on the market.
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Add subclasses of
policy instrument
and reclassify existingpolicy instrument
Type of change (CHANGELOG.md)
Add
economic instrument
: An economic instrument is a policy instrument that creates monetary (price) incentives to stimulate transformative measures.regulatory instrument
: A regulatory instrument is a policy instrument that stipulates rules made by a government (=institution) to control the way something is done.information instrument
: An information instrument is a policy instrument that aims at providing knowledge to persons and/or institutions to stimulate transformative measures.education instrument
: An education instrument is a policy instrument that aims at teaching the necessary understanding and skills to specific groups of people so that these are enabled to perform specific transformative measures.voluntary agreement instrument
: A voluntary agreement instrument is a policy instrument that uses voluntary instruments between a government (institution) and one or more private institutions. The agreement's goal is to ensure transformative measures by the participating private institutions.voluntary agreement
: A voluntary agreement is a contract between a government (institution) and one or more private institutions. The agreements goal is to ensure transformative measures by the participating private institutions.Update
effort sharing
: Effort sharing is a ~policy~ regulatory instrument that sets a common emission reduction goal for a number of countries. Each country has a national reduction goal. Under- or overachievement of that goal can be compensated by trading emission certificates.feed-in tariff
: A feed-in tariff is ~a policy~ an economic instrument designed to stimulate investment in renewable energy technologies by offering long-term contracts to agents who are producers of renewable energy.levy
: A levy is ~a policy~ an economic instrument that consists of a compulsory financial charge imposed on an agent or institution by a governmental organisation.market premium
: A market premium is ~a policy~ an economic instrument that ensures a guaranteed remuneration, e.g. a fixed feed-in tariff, by paying to the producing agent the difference between a guaranteed return on a good/product and the monetary price for which the good/product is traded on the market.Workflow checklist
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