Climate campaigns, cap and trade, and carbon leakage: Why trying to reduce your carbon footprint can harm the climate

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 469-495

  Perino, Grischa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cap and trade schemes; Carbon leakage; Climate campaigns; Green consumerism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962412985     PISSN: 23335955     EISSN: 23335963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/682572     Document Type: Article

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