Potential and bottlenecks of the carbon market: The case of a developing country, Nepal

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3781-3789

  Dhakal, Shobhakar ^a   Raut, Anil K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Carbon market; Clean development mechanism; Nepal

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY UTILIZATION; BIOGAS UTILIZATION; CARBON MARKETS; CARBON MITIGATION; CDM PROJECTS; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DECISION MAKERS; EMISSION REDUCTION; HYDRO-POWER DEVELOPMENT; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; RICE CULTIVATION;

AUTOMOBILES; BIOGAS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SOLID WASTES; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMMERCE;

BIOENERGY; BIOGAS; CARBON EMISSION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NEPAL;

EID: 77953685470     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.057     Document Type: Article

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