Cars, carbon taxes and CO2 emissions
Is a carbon tax effective in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and thereby mitigating climate change? This paper is one of the first empirical analyses of this question and the … read more »
Topic: Carbon pricing and markets
Should the UK stay or should it go? The consequences of a divorce with the EU ETS
As the UK prepares for Brexit, its future participation in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has yet to be decided. Ian Duncan, Conservative MEP for Scotland and … read more »
Solving the clinker dilemma with hybrid output-based allocation
Branger, F. & Sato, M. Climatic Change (2017) 140: 483. doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1884-x
Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?
Internationally, allocation of responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is currently based on the production-based (PB) accounting method, which measures emissions generated in the place where goods and services are produced. However, the growth of emissions embodied in trade has raised the question whether we should switch to, or amalgamate PB accounting, with other accounting […]
How green are green economists?
This paper analyzes the decision of “green” economists to participate in the carbon offset market, and how this decision is related with the views that these experts hold on offsets. … read more »
Carbon offsets out of the woods? The acceptability of domestic vs. international reforestation programmes
Following the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in November 2016, governments around the world are now asked to turn their nationally determined contributions into concrete climate policies. Economic … read more »
How to price carbon in good times … and bad!
Doda, Baran (2015). In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change . ISSN 1757-7799.
Should we tax or trade carbon?
Published in: Bridging the Ambition Gap: The Rise, Reach and Power of Carbon Markets. 13th Edition of Greenhouse Gas Market Report. 2016. External link to publisher
Submission to the inquiry by the Energy and Climate Change Committee inquiry on ‘Leaving the EU: implications for UK climate policy’
This submission outlines the latest research evidence from the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment focusing on the … read more »
Emissions trading systems with cap adjustments
Emissions Trading Systems (ETSs) with fixed caps lack provisions to address systematic imbalances in the supply and demand of permits due to changes in the state of the regulated economy. … read more »