This policy brief identifies the major elements that determine the trade and competitiveness effects of the introduction
of an emission-trading regime. These effects depend most of all on the breadth of the emissions ...
The Emissions Trading scheme now (January 2003) in prospect in the European Union is likely to be the first trans-national greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world. With the participation of the European Economic ...
We use historical industrial emissions data to assess the level of abatement and overallocation
that took place across European countries during the pilot phase (2005-2007)
of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. ...
This paper is a first attempt to empirically measure transaction costs – a composite of administrative
costs and trading costs – of firms in the European Union's CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
during its trial ...
Bredin, Donal; Muckley, Cal(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the key policy instrument of the European Commission's Climate Change Program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below 1990 levels by 2012. A ...
This article investigates the role of bus rapid transit as a tool for mitigation of transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. We analyse a Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) implemented in Dublin, Ireland, in 1999 and ...
In this paper we study the optimal extraction of two fossil fuels when the economy
faces an announced constraint on CO2 emissions a la Kyoto. When high- and low-carbon
resources are perfect substitutes, announcement of ...