Willingness to pay for carbon offset certification and co-benefits among (high-)flying young adults in the UK

Energy Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1372-1381

  MacKerron, George J ^a   Egerton, Catrin ^b   Gaskell, Christopher ^c   Parpia, Aimie ^d   Mourato, Susana ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c New Carbon Finance ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d New Carbon Finance   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Contingent valuation; Voluntary carbon offsets

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE]; CARBON MARKETS; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONTINGENT VALUATION; GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; IMPLEMENTATION COSTS; POVERTY REDUCTIONS; STATED-PREFERENCE STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; VOLUNTARY CARBON OFFSETS; WILLINGNESS TO PAYS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MARKETING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ECONOMICS;

CARBON EMISSION; CONTINGENT VALUATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WILLINGNESS TO PAY; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 63349091331     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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