This article aims to quantify the impact of different energy consumption sources on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for three major economies: the United States of America (USA), China, and the European Union (EU). To achieve this, energy consumption and GHG emissions data were obtained from "Our...

Carbon leakage provides an efficiency argument for unilateral climate policy to differentiate emission prices in favor of emission-intensive and trade-exposed sectors. At the same time, differential emission pricing can be (mis-)used as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade....

In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more formal research. The first section will include an assessment of the evolution and the state of the nascent...