Co-benefits and additionality of the clean development mechanism: An empirical analysis

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-154

  Zhang, Junjie ^a   Wang, Can ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Additionality; Clean development mechanism; Co benefits; Semiparametric panel data model

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONALITY; CARBON MARKETS; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CO-BENEFITS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; KYOTO PROTOCOL; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EMISSION CONTROL;

CARBON EMISSION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMETRICS; EMISSION CONTROL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MARKET SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CHINA;

EID: 80051931529     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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