Pricing Carbon Emissions : Economic Reality and Utopia
Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions, exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS).After an Executive Summary of the contents, the cha...
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