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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

alongside with the EU ETS. Although more analysis is required on some issues, on others some design options seem clearly …, this obligation should apply when the exported product is registered at the EU border, and not after the end of the year as …

to analyse the implications for the European Union (EU) of including non-CO2 GHG emissions in its cap and trade system …