All pages with keywords: carbon markets

Here’s a way to make carbon markets work better

Here’s a way to make carbon markets work better

in the news Luca Taschini, Baran Doda 8 April, 2016

Luca Taschini and Baran Doda explain how carbon markets could play a crucial role in delivering promises made at the Paris climate conference. read more »


The ‘optimal and equitable’ climate finance gap

The ‘optimal and equitable’ climate finance gap

a working paper by Alex Bowen, Emanuele Campiglio, Sara Herreras Martinez 16 March, 2015

This study uses a number of Integrated Assessment Models to determine what the optimal financial transfers between high-income and developing economies would be if climate mitigation costs were to be divided equally across regions. read more »


EU ETS, free allocations and activity level thresholds, the devil lies in the details

EU ETS, free allocations and activity level thresholds, the devil lies in the details

a working paper by Misato Sato, Frédéric Branger, Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Oliver Sartor 3 October, 2014

Energy intensive and trade exposed sectors receive a proportion of their allowances (EUAs) for the European Union emissions trading system (EU ETS) free of charge to prevent carbon … read more »


Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without non-regulated companies

Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without non-regulated companies

a research article by Luca Taschini 21 March, 2013

This paper examines the investment strategies of compliance companies in irreversible abatement technologies and the environmental achievements of the system in an inter-temporal cap-and-trade market using laboratory experiments. The … read more »


Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations

Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations

a research article by Cameron Hepburn 21 February, 2013

This paper examines the impact of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) on equilibrium emissions, output, price, market concentration, and profits in a generalized Cournot model. We develop formulae for … read more »


Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?

Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?

a research article by Cameron Hepburn 20 May, 2011

Cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions are an important part of the climate change policies of the EU, Japan, New Zealand, among others, as well as China (soon) and … read more »


Designing carbon markets. Part I: carbon markets in time

Designing carbon markets. Part I: carbon markets in time

a research article by Samuel Fankhauser, Cameron Hepburn 18 August, 2010

This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in time (i.e., intertemporally). It is part of a twin set of papers that ask, starting from first principles, what an … read more »



The carbon trading game

The carbon trading game

a research article by Roger Fouquet 3 June, 2003

Fouquet, R. 2003. Climate Policy (special Emissions Trading issue), v.3, pp.143-55.