This paper is a quasi-replication of Andersson (2019). I use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of a carbon tax starting at $1.41 per tonne of CO2 and increased through successive reforms to $20 by 2011. The results show that, one year after the intervention, the tax reduced CO2...

The brick industry in developing world is a vast, coal burning and polluting industry. Nearly 1,500 billion bricks are produced globally each year where 87% are from Asia. China dominates the world in producing bricks using coal combustion and woods as fuels where Australia placed the last....

In 2015, South Korea implemented the Korea Emissions Trading System (K-ETS) to achieve national greenhouse gas reduction goals. The main difference between the ETS of Korea and that of other countries is the inclusion of both direct Scope I emissions and indirect Scope 2 emissions in the...