Extension of EU emissions trading scheme to other sectors and gases: Consequences for uncertainty of total tradable amount

Accounting for Climate Change: Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 109-118

  Monni, S ^a   Syri, S ^b   Pipatti, R ^c   Savolainen, I ^b  

^a Benviroc Ltd   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Statistics Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

emissions trading; EU; greenhouse gas; Kyoto Protocol; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960076666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5930-8_9     Document Type: Chapter

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