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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Cap and trade"”.
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Modeling & learning from the design recommendations for California's Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade System
… global temperature, causing glaciers to melt and global weather patterns to change. At the same time the world population is increasing, the standard of living for an increasing percentage of the population is improving, and with that the global energy usage is going up and up. Currently, a …
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Combining a renewable portfolio standard with a cap-and-trade policy : a general equilibrium analysis
… economists see incentive-based measures such a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax as cost effective policy instruments for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In actuality, many efforts to address GHG emissions combine a cap-and-trade system with other regulatory instruments. This raises an …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
… examines how the fossil fuel industry and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate denial, …
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Implementing a time- and location-differentiated cap-and-trade program : flexible nitrogen oxide abatement from power plants in the eastern United States
Studies suggest that timing and location of emissions can change the amount of ozone formed from a given amount of nitrogen oxide (NOx) by a factor of five (Mauzerall et al. 2005). Yet existing NOx cap-and-trade programs require stationary sources in the Eastern U.S. to reduce emissions without …
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Impact of carbon emission regulatory policies on the electricity market : a simulation study
… ever rising concerns regarding global warming and other dangerous effects of CO2 , there had been efforts to reduce CO2 emissions all around the world by adopting more efficient technologies and alternate green or carbon neutral fuels. However, these technologies require large investments and …
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The effects of interactions between federal and state climate policies : implications for federal climate policy design
In the absence of a federal policy to cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions many states are moving forward with their own initiatives, which currently range from announcements of commitments to reduce greenhouse gases to a regional multi-state cap-and-trade program slated to begin in 2009. As …
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A comparison of cost-containment instruments for US carbon reduction policies
A cap-and-trade program, as is used in the European Trading Scheme, is currently the most widely discussed method in the US for reducing greenhouse gases. A basic cap-and-trade program operates by mandating a fixed level of emissions for a given period, issuing permits, and then allowing a market …
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The future of natural gas in China : effects of pricing reform and climate policy
… residential sector as a way to improve living standards. Chinese policy makers have recently launched nationwide gas pricing reform that links the natural gas price to oil prices to address natural gas supply shortages. My analysis of the pricing reform shows that it leads to a better …
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International environmental governance : a case for increased regulation in the carbon markets
… polluters - mainly energy intensive industries and utilities companies, providing heightened financial motivation to adopt cleaner modes of production. It is widely agreed upon that to do so value must be attached to emissions reductions, and with the Kyoto Protocol one such mechanism has been …
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Regulating mercury with the Clear Skies Act : the resulting impacts on innovation, human health, and the global community
… MACT, Maximum Achievable Control Technology, standards. However, in 2003 the Bush Administration revealed an alternative and controversial regulatory strategy for mercury, developing a cap and trade emissions credit trading program under the Clear Skies Initiative. Although emissions trading was …
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Economic Modeling of Bioenergy Crop Production and Carbon Emission Reduction in Illinois
… results have several policy implications. Carbon cap-and-trade policy, if adopted, is likely to create an incentive for biomass co-firing. Such a policy would reduce the significant amount of carbon emissions and help the State obtain a considerable share of renewable energy. The carbon incentives …
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Mean and Volatility Spillovers in Emission Allowance and Fuel Returns
… based emission reduction programs, also known as cap and trade systems, were long promoted by economists as the least-cost method to reduce aggregate pollution levels. The most influential of these programs is the Acid Rain Program launched by Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments to …
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Mean and Volatility Spillovers in Emission Allowance and Fuel Returns
… based emission reduction programs, also known as cap and trade systems, were long promoted by economists as the least-cost method to reduce aggregate pollution levels. The most influential of these programs is the Acid Rain Program launched by Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments to …
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CO₂ price impact on Dell's supply chain : a framework for carbon footprint economic analysis
… scope of this project is to design, analyze and report a case study of how to effectively account for the highly likely scenario of a CO2 price policy (cap-and-trade or tax) with regard to Dell's product and supply chain. Dell will use the cost implications of total carbon footprint for the …
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Structures et fonctionnements des marchés du carbone
This study is interested in the theoretical and actual functioning of the emissions trading systems resulting from the coming into force of the Kyoto protocol in 2005 and the implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2002. The first part of the work is devoted to a …
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Capacity and Operational Performance Optimization under External Constraints with Uncertainty
… the significant impacts of globalization, demand uncertainty, competition, and external emissions regulations on firms' profitability, operational performance, and decision-making processes. The models relax common simplifying assumptions (i.e., deterministic lead-times, exogenous emissions …
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Reducing the contribution of the power sector to ground-level ozone pollution : an assessment of time-differentiated pricing of nitrogen oxide emissions
… prevalent air pollutant across the United States and a requisite precursor for tropospheric (ground-level) ozone formation. Both pollutants significantly impact human health and welfare, so National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) have been established for each. As of 2013, over 100 million …
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A general equilibrium analysis of climate policy for aviation
… multi-sectoral market-based approach such as a cap and trade system-is opposed by industry stakeholders. An efficient economy-wide policy would determine the optimal level of sectoral emissions reductions, but industry groups have instead proposed independent aviation-sector goals for carbon …
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Sustainability analysis in integrated inventory control and transportation systems
… as inventory holding, freight transportation, and warehousing activities, this dissertation models and analyzes four integrated inventory control and transportation problems that account for economic and environmental aspects of a supply chain agents related decisions.</p> <p>The first model …
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