This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment...

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Emissions trading (ET) challenges business managers in an entirely new manner, changing the criteria by which environmental policy steers management decisions from hierarchical to monetary. The 24 contributions to this volume discuss ET theoretically and empirically in these broad topic areas:...

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development

1. Introduction to Emissions Trading -- 2. CO2 Price Fundamentals -- 3. Link With The Macroeconomy -- 4. The Clean Development Mechanism -- 5. Risk-Hedging Strategies And Portfolio Management -- 6. Advanced Topics: Time-To-Maturity and Modeling the Volatility of Carbon Prices -- Solutions -- Index

1 Introduction -- 2 The Issue of Climate Change.- 3 The Rise of the Emission Markets -- 4 The Economics of Mitigation Strategies -- 5 The Finance of Environment Investments -- 6 The Emission Price Dynamics -- Bibliography

1. Environmental Policy Evaluations in Japan: Concepts and Practice -- 2. Ex Ante Policy Evaluation of the Vehicle Type Regulation -- 3. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Enforcing Installation of Particulate Matter Elimination Devices on Diesel Trucks -- 4. Does Environmental Regulation Affect on...

This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance...