A whole bundle of so-called "flexible mechanisms" has been foreseen by the Kyoto Protocol in order to help industrial countries to fulfil their agreed reduction targets in the most costeffective way. Emission permits will act as the backbone of all market-orientated mechanisms. Therefore, their...

Given the difficulty to reach a global quantity commitment to control the carbon emissions, a globally uniform price commitment is proposed to tackle the current environmental issues. In this paper, we take an operations perspective to understand the impact of both the cap-and-trade policy...