policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate Change Agreements feature this incentive scheme. There is only a …

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies … their patenting history and their regulatory status under EU ETS, we investigate the hypothesis that the EU ETS has … activities at the EPO since 2005, especially among EU ETS regulated companies during the Scheme's second phase. Naive estimates …

official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in … the EU despite fairly stringent and longstanding policy commitment that goes back to the mid 1990s, but which however is … seem to impact instead on landfill diversion. Nevertheless, country heterogeneity matters: SURE based analyses show that EU …

commitment in reaching a sustainable regulation by issuing some documents and declarations. The paper frames the EU action into …

The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) is a landmark environmental policy, representing the world's first … participation and flexible abatement strategies make the EU ETS a powerful instrument of cross sectoral integration of environmental … governance. The EU ETS shows characteristics of the decision making processes and institutions engaged, the tools and instruments …

innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by …

This paper empirically investigates the effect of the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on cross … in areas outside the EU ETS. To study this problem, we employ a model of the firm’s investment decision in conjunction … sensitivity to carbon pricing from observed pollution data. This allows to identify the effect of the EU ETS on international …