The european union emissions trading scheme: Issues in allowance price support and linkage

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 301-324

  Convery, Frank J ^a   Redmond, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cap and trade; Carbon pricing; Carbon taxes; Eu ets; Global climate change; International climate policy architecture; Linkage; Market based instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886908665     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151827     Document Type: Article

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