We develop and discuss the three pathways to European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: a top-down scheme based on the …-wide regional scheme based on the founding principles of the European Union. We review how the debate on greenhouse gas emissions … influential misconceptions in the European discussion concerning emissions trading and, while dispelling them, try to establish …

The EU Commission has recently proposed a new directive establishing a framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …

Starting from CO2 emissions data collected during both the production phase and during the lifetime of cars and trucks …, we argue that impressive opportunities to reduce emissions can be found in the consumption phase. It is however obvious … that energy taxes alone will not lead to a strong reduction of transport emissions. New instruments that stimulate …