Pricing carbon : the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme /
"The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trad...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere. However, as is true of any pioneering public policy experiment, this scheme has generated much controversy. Pricing Carbon provides the first detailed description and analysis of the EU ETS, focusing on the first 'trial' period of the scheme (2005-7). Written by an international team of experts, it allows readers to get behind the headlines and come to a better understanding of what was done and what happened based on a dispassionate, empirically based review of the evidence. This book should be read by anyone who wants to know what happens when emissions are capped, traded, and priced"--Provided by publisher "Pricing Carbon provides the first detailed description and analysis of the EU ETS, focusing on the first, 'trial', period of the scheme (2005 to 2007). Written by an international team of experts, it allows readers to get behind the headlines and come to a better understanding of what was done and what happened based on a dispassionate, empirically based review of the evidence. This book should be read by anyone who wants to know what happens when emissions are capped, traded, and priced"--Provided by publisher |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 368 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-359) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139042017 1139042017 9781139042765 1139042769 9781139038102 1139038109 1107205174 9781107205178 1139035789 9781139035781 1283051915 9781283051910 9786613051912 6613051918 1139044648 9781139044646 1139040464 9781139040464 |