Will international emissions trading help achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Fujimori, Shinichiro ^a,b   Kubota, Izumi ^a   Dai, Hancheng ^a   Takahashi, Kiyoshi ^a   Hasegawa, Tomoko ^a,b   Liu, Jing Yu ^a   Hijioka, Yasuaki ^a   Masui, Toshihiko ^a   Takimi, Maho ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c MIZUHO INFORMATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

computable general equilibrium model; emissions trading; Paris Agreement; welfare change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ACCOUNTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; EMISSIONS TRADING; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION; INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM; MITIGATION COSTS; SHARING SCHEMES; WELFARE CHANGES;

COMMERCE;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MITIGATION; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 84994700891     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104001     Document Type: Article

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