Designing an emissions trading scheme for China-An up-to-date climate policy assessment

Energy Policy

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-72

  Hübler, Michael ^a   Voigt, Sebastian ^b   Löschel, Andreas ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CGE; China; Climate policy; ETS; Linking

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMMERCE; COST ACCOUNTING; EMISSION CONTROL;

CHINA; CLIMATE POLICY; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE; EMISSIONS INTENSITY; EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME; LINKING; PERCENTAGE POINTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON EMISSION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY ANALYSIS; WELFARE IMPACT;

CHINA;

EID: 84921870895     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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