Emissions Trading for Climate Policy

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Bernd Hansjürgens; Part I. Regulatory Instruments for Climate Policy: Theoretical Aspects: 2. Designing instruments for climate policy Thomas Sterner and Henrik Hammar; 3. Technical innovation and design choices for emissions trading and other climate policies Carolyn Fischer; 4. Incentives to adopt new abatement technology and US-European regulatory cultures Reimund Schwarze; Part II. The US Approach to Pollution Control: Lessons for Climate Policy: 5. Implications of the American experience with market-based environmental strategies for future climate policy Robert N. Stavins; 6. US experience with emissions trading: lessons for CO2 emissions trading A. Denny Ellerman; 7. Climate change policy viewed from the USA and the role of intensity targets Charles D. Kolstad; 8. Design issues of a domestic carbon emissions trading system in the USA Richard D. Morgenstern; Part III. European Policies to Control Greenhouse Gases: the EU Directorate on Emissions Trading: 9. Regulation or coordination: European climate policy between Scylla and Charybdis Mikael Skou Andersen; 10. Lobbyism and CO2 trade in the EU Gert Tinggaard Svendsen; 11. Greenhouse gas emissions trading in the EU: building the world's largest cap-and-trade scheme Peter Zapfel; 12. Legal aspects of the European Emissions Trading Scheme Michael Rodi; 13. Emission trading schemes in Europe: linking the EU Emissions Trading Scheme with national programs Sven Bode; 14. Concluding observations Bernd Hansjürgens; Index.