Intensity-based climate change policies in Canada

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-428

  Rivers, Nic ^a   Jaccard, Mark ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competitiveness; Computable general equilibrium model; Performance standard; Policy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITIVENESS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; STANDARD (REGULATION); TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EXHAUST GAS; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

CANADA;

EID: 78751494652     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.36.4.409     Document Type: Article

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