The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: Should we throw the flagship out with the bathwater?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-16

  Branger, Frédéric ^a,c   Lecuyer, Oskar ^b   Quirion, Philippe ^a,d  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; CRIME; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON LEAKAGE; CLIMATE POLICY; EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEM; EUROPEAN UNION; EUROPEAN UNION EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEMES; MARKET FAILURES; PRICE LIMITS;

INTERNATIONAL LAW;

EID: 84914817724     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.326     Document Type: Article

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