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existing city-based ETS covering both local pollutants and greenhouse gases. It identifies common and distinguishing features … and assesses the environmental and economic performance of the various existing ETS. Based on this analysis, this paper … highlights the factors contributing to the success of local ETS and makes recommendations for future implementation. Finally …
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New Zealand’s living standards remain well below the OECD average. This is entirely attributable to persistently low labour productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors. The small size and remoteness of the economy diminish its access to...
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Climate change, security and cost of energy supplies, and the competitiveness of firms and economies have been focal points of the general political and economic policy debate in recent years. This article examines the choices in this field made at global level with the Kyoto Protocol and in...
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from ruminant animals yet exists. New Zealand is a pioneer in implementing an emissions trading scheme (NZ ETS) covering … instruments in natural resource management and by strengthening price signals in the NZ ETS. This Working Paper relates to the …-Zélande est pionnière dans la mise en oeuvre d’un système d’échange de quotas d’émission (ETS) couvrant l’ensemble des secteurs et …
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The Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a study on the ‘effective’ carbon prices that result from emissions and energy reduction policies in Australia and other key economies (the UK, USA, Germany, New Zealand, China, India, Japan and South Korea).<p> The...</p>
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The central pillar of European climate policy, the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), is currently under … ETS has to deliver a mechanism that reduces such uncertainty and stabilizes expectations of market participants. The … collar in the EU ETS with lower and upper boundaries. This is likely to reinforce the long-term credibility and reliability …
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The research presented in this paper investigates the welfare effects of a Personal Carbon Trading Scheme (PCTS). A consumer surplus analysis is used to determine the welfare loss to individuals who undertake travel-to-work trips in the Dublin and the Western Border Region (WBR) of Ireland....
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