Carbon flows, financial markets and climate change mitigation

Environmental Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-24

  Mol, Arthur P J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon markets; CDM; Environmental governance; EU ETS; Financial markets; Networks and flows; Voluntary markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860999652     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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