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dc.contributor.authorBuchner, Barbara.
dc.contributor.authorCarraro, Carlo.
dc.contributor.authorEllerman, A. Denny.
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T22:25:51Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T22:25:51Z
dc.date.issued2006-10
dc.identifier.urihttp://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a140
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35836
dc.descriptionAbstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/).en
dc.description.abstractA critical issue in dealing with climate change is deciding who has a right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2), and under what conditions, when those emissions are limited. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s first large experiment with an emission trading system for CO2 and it is likely to be copied by others if there is to be a global regime for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. This paper provides the first in-depth description and analysis of the process by which rights to emit carbon dioxide were created and distributed in the EU ETS. The main objective of the paper is to distill the lessons and general principles to be learned from the allocation of allowances in the EU ETS, i.e. in the world’s first experience with allocating carbon allowances to sub-national entities. We discuss the lessons and unifying observations that emerge from this experience and provide some insights on what seem to be more general principles informing the allocation process and on what are the global implications of the EU ETS.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe are indebted to the European Commission, FEEM, and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change for the various forms of financial and other support that made possible the book on which this article is based.en
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dc.publisherMIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Changeen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesReport No. 140en
dc.titleThe Allocation of European Union Allowances: Lessons, Unifying Themes and General Principlesen
dc.typeTechnical Reporten
dc.identifier.citationReport no. 140en


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