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Climate change and European emissions trading : lessons for theory and practice / edited by Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New horizons in environmental law series.
- New horizons in environmental law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emissions trading--Economic aspects--European Union countries.
- Emissions trading.
- Emissions trading--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Greenhouse gas mitigation--Economic aspects--European Union countries.
- Greenhouse gas mitigation.
- Greenhouse gas mitigation--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Climatic changes--Economic aspects--European Union countries.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--European Union countries.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (424 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on the EU-wide greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme for major industries. This book combines legal and economic approaches and reviews the major revision of this scheme. It discusses many design options, including auctioning, credit and trade, the inclusion of aviation emissions, and linking possibilities.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Legislative choices and legal values: considerations on the further design of the European greenhouse gas Emissions Trading Scheme from a viewpoint of democratic accountability; Chapter 3: Too much harmonization? An analysis of the Commission's proposal to amend the EU ETS from the perspective of legal principles; Chapter 4: The 'Emissions Trading Scheme' case-law: some new paths for a better European environmental perspective?
- Chapter 5: European emissions trading and the polluter-pays principle: assessing grandfathering and over-allocationChapter 6: EU greenhouse gas emissions trading and competition law; Chapter 7: The underestimated possibility of ex post adjustments: some lessons from the initial greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme; Chapter 8: Economic impacts of the EU ETS: preliminary evidence; Chapter 9: Regional regulatory initiatives addressing GHG leakage in the USA; Chapter 10: Domestic initiatives in the UK; Chapter 11: Linking the EU ETS to other emissions trading schemes
- Chapter 12: Expansion of the EU ETS: the case of emissions trading for aviationChapter 13: The European emissions trading system: auctions and their challenges; Chapter 14: Concluding remarks; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-29562-4
- 9786612295621
- 1-84844-603-9
- OCLC:
- 476252704
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