Addressing climate change with a comprehensive US cap-and-trade system

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-321

  Stavins, Robert N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap and trade system; Carbon dioxide; Carbon taxes; Global climate change; Greenhouse gas emissions

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLLUTION TAX;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55749094016     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grn017     Document Type: Article

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