Emissions trading is widely regarded as a cost-effective means of helping industrialized countries comply with their … Kyoto emissions targets by ensuring that reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are made where they are least costly. If … emissions trading among sub-national entities is authorized, the nest question is how industrialized countries' governments …

If the U.S. should limit carbon dioxide emissions, an allowance trading policy may offer one method of achieving that …

This paper investigates the EKC curves for CO2 emissions in a panel of 109 countries during the period 1959-2001. The … consistently show that CO2 emissions still rise positively with income, though some signals of an EKC path arise …

implications. For climate change analysis, models need to translate economic activity into greenhouse gas emissions. This document … estimates functions and creates projections for land-use related greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic activity that are … that implied net emissions approximately match past inventory totals (1990-2002); and can be linked easily to a variety of …

This paper analyses the impact of population growth on CO2 emissions in European Union countries. Traditionally …, researchers have assumed a unitary elasticity of emissions with respect to population growth. In this study population is treated … as a predictor in the model, instead of being included as part of the dependent variable (per capita emissions), thus …

efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions independent of the federal government. Among these initiative are cap and trade … programs designed to lower the cost of reducing carbon emissions. Among the best known cap and trade programs are the Chicago … emission limits in either the CCX or the RGGI. Hence, compliance with program-wide carbon emissions caps will depend on the …

Emissions trading schemes on entity level are becoming more and more important in the context of controlling greenhouse …. Supply and demand are matched on an hourly basis. The allocation is either based on absolute emissions or on a generation …

This paper asks whether the European Union's (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme has encouraged investment in renewable … the additionality of energy efficiency projects. While the literature generally associates emissions trading with … innovation, emissions trading does not encourage innovation with high short term costs, even when such innovation has strong …

As GHG emissions did not decline as anticipated early of the 1990ties Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) recently gained …