Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 46,973
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Tradable Permits for Environmental Protection: Case Study of an Integrated Steel Plant in India
Pandey, Rita; Bhardwaj, Geetesh - eSocialSciences - 2005
Cost effective policies allow minimising the compliance costs associated to reaching a desired environmental quality target. In this paper a conceptual model has been developed to examine the compliance costs under an intra-plant emission trading system for a non-uniformly mixed assimilative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528275
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888129
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445517
Cover Image
The challenges of finding efficient policy measures to reduce Australia’s agricultural Greenhouse gas emissions
King, Helen - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
A comprehensive emissions trading scheme (ETS) is Australia’s principal climate change policy instrument. There are undoubtedly benefits of full ETS coverage. However, if emissions that cannot be affordably, reasonably and accurately measured are included, these must be balanced against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693256
Cover Image
Reducing Methane Emissions from Cattle Production in Central Queensland
Rolfe, John - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2002
Beef cattle contribute about 7% of national greenhouse gas emissions through the release of methane into the atmosphere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909040
Cover Image
An Experimental Economic Analysis of Carbon Trading Options for Australia
Tisdell, John G.; Grainger, Corinne - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008
Australia is currently developing a carbon emissions trading program. The Garnaut report recommendations include options for emissions trajectories, coverage, permit allocation, inter-temporality, governance and compliance. This paper reports the results of a series of economic experiments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802968
Cover Image
GHG Trading Framework for the U.S. Biofuels Sector
Kumarappan, Subbu; Joshi, Satish V. - Farm Foundation - 2008
Substitution of petroleum fuels with biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel has been shown to reduce greenhouse gas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496489
Cover Image
A new political economy of climate change
Damian, Michel - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 57 (2015) 2, pp. 5-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039826