Climate policy: Bucket or drainer?

Energy Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 3656-3668

  Oikonomou, Vlasis ^a   Patel, Martin ^a   Worrell, Ernst ^b  

^a Copernicus Institute ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ECORYS Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon leakage; Energy intensive industry; Iron and steel industry

Indexed keywords

CARBON LEAKAGE; CLIMATE POLICY; ENERGY-INTENSIVE INDUSTRY; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON; GAS EMISSIONS; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CARBON; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MODELING; POLLUTION POLICY;

EID: 33750025918     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2005.08.012     Document Type: Article

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