This RFF’s paper introduces a two-tiered framework to guide policymakers, with an interest in North American policy outcomes. One tier discusses program elements that need to be aligned before trading of allowances across programs can occur. The second identifies benefits of incremental alignment of program elements even prior to trading between programs…
The authors offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time…
After an overview of the economics of emissions trading, this article from Adrian Müller assesses ethical aspects of emissions trading as a showcase for how other disciplines can complement the economic approach
a working paper from Simon Caney and Cameron Hepburn
Christian Egenhofer, CEPS policy brief, janv. 2011, 8 p.
Transport is the only sector in the EU in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Unless this trend can be reversed, the EU will have little chance of reaching its objectives in the context of global obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions between 80% and 95% by 2050 compared to 1990…
EEA, Technical report No 8/2010.
Industrial combustion and road transport are major sources of air pollutants that cause significant harm to human health and the natural environment…
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
