Instruments for climate policy limited versus unlimited flexibility /

Instruments for Climate Policy focuses on economic and political aspects related to the recent proposals and the debate on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is followed by chapters on economic efficiency and the use of flex...

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Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Albrecht, Johan.
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., c2002.
Series:New horizons in environmental economics.
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Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/1840647590.xml
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Johan Albrecht
  • 2. Climate policy instruments and strategies : EU and US perspectives / Peter Zapfel and David Gardiner
  • 3. Economic efficiency of cross-sectoral emissions trading in CO2 in the European Union / Pantelis Capros ... [et al.]
  • 4. Why did the EU propose to limit emissions trading? : a theoretical and empirical analysis / Edwin Woerdman
  • 5. Supplementarity in the European carbon emission market / Johan Eyckmans and Jan Cornillie
  • 6. On the optimal timing of reductions of CO2 emissions : an economist's perspective on the debate on 'When Flexibility' / Henri L.F. de Groot
  • 7. Joint implementation as a flexible instrument : a CGE analysis between a developing and an industrialized country / Christoph Böhringer, Klaus Conrad and Andreas Löschel
  • 8. The Australian greenhouse challenge : lessons learned and future prospects for voluntary approaches in climate policy / Rory Sullivan and Robin Ormerod
  • 9. The clean development mechanism : potential, promise and limitations / Jyoti P. Painuly
  • 10. Risk management of joint implementation and clean development mechanism projects through carbon investment funds / Josef Janssen
  • 11. On the dynamic efficiency and environmental integrity of GHG tradable quotas / Khalil Helioui.