Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme: Rights, Rents and Fairness

by A. Denny Ellerman, Barbara K. Buchner, Carlo Carraro

Book Overview

A critical issue in dealing with climate change is deciding who has a right to emit carbon dioxide. Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme provided the first in-depth description and analysis of the process by which rights to emit carbon dioxide were created and distributed in the European Union. This was the world's first large-scale experiment with an emission trading system for carbon dioxide and was likely to be copied by others if...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052118262X
• ISBN13: 9780521182621
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"