Classifying carbon credit buyers according to their attitudes towards and involvement in CDM sustainability labels

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 6271-6279

  Parnphumeesup Piya, P ^a   Kerr, Sandy A ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clean Development Mechanism; Cluster analysis; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CARBON CREDITS; CARBON MARKETS; CDM PROJECTS; CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; HOST COUNTRIES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; RETURN ON INVESTMENTS; TWO-CLUSTER SOLUTION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; PLANNING; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 80052731346     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.07.026     Document Type: Article

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