Banning incandescent light bulbs in the shadow of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Climate Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 678-686

  Perino, Grischa ^a   Pioch, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate policy; emission trading; energy efficiency; lighting; overlapping instruments

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84973631245     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1164657     Document Type: Article

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