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Carbon Accounting by Public and Private Financial Institutions : Can We Be Sure Climate Finance Is Leading to Emissions Reductions?
Spittle, Emily; Dietrich Brauch, Martin - 2021
As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213971
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Long-Run Equilibrium Modeling of Alternative Emissions Allowance Allocation Systems in Electric Power Markets
Schulkin, J.Z.; Hobbs, B.F.; Pang, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007
are somewhat mitigated if there are also electricity capacity markets or minimum-run restrictions on coal plants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113754
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Cooling down hot air : a global CGE analysis of post-Kyoto carbon abatement strategies
Böhringer, Christoph - 1999
The Kyoto Protocol marks a break-through in global warming mitigation policies as it sets legally binding emissions targets for major emitting regions. However, realisation of the Protocol depends on the clarification of several issues one of which is the permissible scope of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443241
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Allowance Allocation in a CO2 Emissions Cap-and-Trade Program for the Electricity Sector in California
Palmer, Karen L.; Burtraw, Dallas; Paul, Anthony C. - 2010
reductions in California to be offset by emission increases in neighboring regions that supply electricity to the state. The …The regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector within a cap-and-trade system poses significant … efficiency consequences. This research uses simulation modeling for the electricity sector to examine different approaches to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198002
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Free Lunch or Cheap Fix? : The Emissions Trading Idea and the Climate Change Convention
Driesen, David M. - 2014
Emissions trading has become a key component of U.S. environmental legal regimes. The U.S. has successfully lobbied to make international environmental benefit trading, an expanded form of emissions trading, a part of international efforts to address the threat of global climate change through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208732
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C&C - contraction and convergence of carbon emissions : the economic implications of permit trading
Böhringer, Christoph; Welsch, Heinz - 1999
In the context of climate protection policy it has been suggested that global CO2 emissions should be reduced significantly (contraction) and that per capita emissions should gradually be equalized across countries (convergence). This paper uses a dynamic multi-region computable general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442448
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Compensation for Electricity Consumers Under a U.S. CO2 Emissions Cap
Paul, Anthony C. - 2014
Policies to cap emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the U.S. economy could pose significant costs on the electricity … electricity sector, we evaluate alternative ways that emission allowances can be allocated. Most previous emissions trading … programs have allocated the major portion of allowances for free to incumbent firms. In the electricity sector this approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708463
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Simple Rules for Targeting Co2 Allowance Allocations to Compensate Firms
Palmer, Karen L. - 2014
states, are expected to have important effects on the electricity industry and on the market value of firms that own … electricity generation assets. The economics literature finds large efficiency advantages for initial distribution of tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709720
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Carbonwashing : A New Type of Carbon Data-Related ESG Greenwashing
In, Soh Young; Schumacher, Kim - 2021
Despite the increased attention and capital incentives around corporate sustainability, the development of sustainability reporting standards and monitoring systems has been progressing at a slow pace. As a result, companies have misaligned incentives to deliberately or selectively communicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212226
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Cooling Down Hot Air : A Global CGE Analysis of Post-Kyoto Carbon Abatement Strategies
Böhringer, Christoph - 2014
The Kyoto Protocol marks a break-through in global warming mitigation policies as it sets legally binding emissions targets for major emitting regions. However, realisation of the Protocol depends on the clarification of several issues one of which is the permissible scope of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089726