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What Has Kyoto Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradable Permit Markets
Hahn, Robert W.; Stavins, Robert N. - 1999
of international greenhouse gas trading mechanisms. Virtually all design studies and many projections of the costs of … greenhouse policy instruments. This is an important issue because the Protocol explicitly provides for domestic sovereignty …-trading approaches such as greenhouse-gas taxes or fixed quantity standards -- which seems likely in the light of previous experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445454
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Tradable rights to emit air pollution
Burtraw, Dallas; Evans, David A. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 53 (2009) 1
The use of cap-and-trade to regulate air pollution promises to achieve environmental goals at lower cost than traditional prescriptive approaches. Cap-and-trade has been applied to various air pollutants including sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds in the United...
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Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program
Burtraw, Dallas; Palmer, Karen L.; Kahn, Danny - 2005
result of the policy. Another concern with a regional cap-and-trade program like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI … outside the region, commonly called emissions leakage. In this research we model historic, auction, and updating approaches to … price increases the most with a historic or auction approach. Coal-fired generation in the RGGI region decreases under all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445480
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CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors
Burtraw, Dallas; Kahn, Danny; Palmer, Karen L. - 2005
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a … regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector …
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A new political economy of climate change
Damian, Michel - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 57 (2015) 2, pp. 5-14
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Towards a Corporate Response to Climate Change
Kulkarni, Manu N. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The recently concluded conclave of Indian corporate leaders in Palampur to discuss the scary situation of climate change in the world left the delegates more bewildered than clear on the strategies to be adopted to tackle the threat of global warming in India.
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The state of carbon finance in Europe: a 'SWOT' analysis of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme
Mak, Winston - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 4, pp. 334-352
As Phase III of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will begin in January 2012 when airlines operating flights to or from Europe will have to buy carbon permits to help offset their emissions under EU legislation, carbon finance and trading in Europe is set to proceed to a new...
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Nudging effective climate policy design
Bowman, Megan - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 35 (2011) 2/3/4, pp. 242-254
This paper applies insights from behavioural economics literature to design options in climate policy in order to make suggestions on how to create and pass effective climate regulation. It posits that policymakers can have a more comprehensive toolkit for tackling climate change by utilising...
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Evaluation of dynamic pass-through of carbon prices into electricity prices - a cointegrated VECM analysis
Freitas, Carlos J. Pereira; Silva, Patrícia Pereira Da - In: International Journal of Public Policy 9 (2013) 1/2, pp. 65-85
This paper addresses the impact of the CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB> opportunity cost on the wholesale electricity price in the context of the Iberian electricity market (MIBEL), namely on the Portuguese system, for the period corresponding to the Phase II of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In the...</small></sub>
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