A comparison of carbon allocation schemes: On the equity-efficiency tradeoff

Energy

Volumn 74, Issue C, 2014, Pages 222-229

  Pan, Xunzhang ^a   Teng, Fei ^a   Wang, Gehua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allocation schemes; Carbon Gini coefficient; Climate change; Discounted abatement costs; Equity efficiency tradeoff

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ABATEMENT COSTS; ALLOCATION SCHEMES; CARBON EMISSION RIGHTS; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EQUITY-EFFICIENCY TRADEOFF; GINI COEFFICIENTS; NUMERICAL COMPARISON; STABILIZATION TARGET;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84927692064     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.05.109     Document Type: Article

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