Emissions Trading

Edwin Woerdman

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Emissions Trading

Edwin Woerdman

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This encyclopedia entry summarizes the theory and practice of emissions trading as a market-based instrument to achieve an environmental target in a cost-effective way by allowing legal entities to buy and sell emission rights. In theory, there are three basic design variants of emissions trading: cap-and-trade (allowance trading), performance standard rate trading (credit trading), and project-based credit trading (such as domestic offsets, JI, CDM and SDM projects). In practice, emissions trading systems (ETS) can be hybrids of those design variants, such as the EU ETS. The limited but increasing use of emissions trading and the first ETS linkages created within continents underlines the growing legal relevance of this economic instrument.

Originele taal-2	English
Titel	Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Redacteuren	Alain Marciano, Giovanni Battista Ramello
Plaats van productie	New York
Uitgeverij	Springer
Aantal pagina's	9
Uitgave	Living edition
ISBN van elektronische versie	978-1-4614-7883-6
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_61-2
Status	Published - 4-jan.-2021

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