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Allocation of New Zealand Units Within Agriculture in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System

Kerr, Suzi; Zhang, Wei - 2014

When agricultural emissions are included in the New Zealand Emission Trading System (ETS) the economics of farming will be significantly altered. Under the legislation current in October 2009, in the early years of the system the agricultural sector as a whole would have received NZ units...

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Impacts of Alternative Emissions Allowance Allocation Methods Under a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Hafstead, Marc A. C.; Dworsky, Michael - 2009

There has been intense focus on the issue of how emissions allowances might be allocated under a potential federal cap-and-trade program. What fraction of the allowances should be auctioned out, as opposed to given out free? How much free allocation would be sufficient to preserve profits in...

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Carbon Markets : Past, Present, and Future

Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A.; Raimi, Daniel - 2013

Carbon markets are substantial and they are expanding. There are many lessons from experiences over the past eight years: fewer free allowances, better management of market-sensitive information, and a recognition that trading systems require adjustments that have consequences for market...

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Carbon Emissions Trading in China : The Evolution from Pilots to a Nationwide Scheme

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016

The Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These seven pilot regions are deliberately selected to be at varying stages of development and are given considerable leeway to design their own schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but...

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The CCEP Australia Carbon Pricing Survey 2012 : Policy Uncertainty Reigns but Carbon Price Likely to Stay

Jotzo, Frank - 2012

The inaugural Australia Carbon Pricing Survey elicits expectations about the future of carbon pricing from experts working for Australia's largest greenhouse gas emitting companies, the carbon finance and investment industry and selected other experts. The survey indicates pervasive uncertainty...

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Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the Path to Zero Emissions

Borenstein, Severin; Kellogg, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We categorize the primary incentive-based mechanisms under consideration for addressing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation--pricing carbon, setting intensity standards, and subsidizing clean energy--and compare their market outcomes under similar expansions of clean electricity...

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Carbon Matching Commitments

Coleman, James W. - 2022

commitment.Regulation of international environmental problems such as climate change presents the now well-studied threats of … regulation in other countries. For example, in the case of climate change, if each individual country first selfishly chose and … unconditional abatement to win matching abatements, the equilibrium solution would be regulation that is, by some standards, optimal …

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Cost-efficient pathways to decarbonizing Portland cement production

Glenk, Gunther; Kelnhofer, Anton; Meier, Rebecca; … - 2023

Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...

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China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System : A General Equilibrium Assessment

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Long, Xianling; Qu, Chenfei; Zhang, Da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

incorporates distinctive features of China's economy, including state-owned enterprises and electricity market regulation. It …

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The Design and Implementation of an International Trading Scheme for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2015

The inclusion of emissions trading in the Kyoto Protocol reflects an important decision to address climate change issues through flexible market mechanisms. In this paper, we address a number of policy issues that must be considered in designing and implementing an international greenhouse gas...

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