Discounting offsets: Issues and options

Carbon Management

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 539-549

  Kollmuss, Anja ^a   Lazarus, Michael ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

CARBON MARKETS; DISCOUNT FACTORS; DISCOUNT RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY; GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; POLICY MAKERS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 80053533397     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.11.49     Document Type: Article

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