Pollution for Sale: Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation (International Studies in Environmental Policy Making series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840640103 ISBN 13: 9781840640106

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Emissions trading has become a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change represents a victory for advocates of market based instruments and builds upon twenty years of experience with trading schemes in the United States. However, the concept is controversial and attempts to introduce similar trading schemes in Europe have met with mixed results. This timely book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of emissions trading including the lessons learnt, the problems faced and the prospects for its extended use. It includes case studies of trading schemes in the USA and Europe, and studies of international trading under the European acid rain regime. Problems of practical implementation, especially institutional feasibility and political acceptability, are given particular attention. The prospects for the international trading of greenhouse gases following the Kyoto Protocol are assessed. The book also includes an analysis of the potential conflicts between emissions trading and established regulatory traditions. Pollution for Sale will be of great interest to policy makers, practitioners, researchers and students of environmental policy.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Sorrell, Research Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK

Review

'This book makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature by bringing together a set of essays that reflect on U.S. experience and examine attempts to introduce trading programs in Europe....The book is accessible to the broad readership for which it is intended. Academics as well as policy makers will find this book worthwhile reading.' -- - Robert N. Stavins, Environment, April 2000

The strength of Sorrell and Skeas analysis comes from the wide selection of topics covered by the papers, all adding valuable often forgotten experience. . . . I believe this book to be an excellent addition to the library of anyone who is involved in climate change. It raises awareness of previous experience, both successes and failures, particularly from within Europe, from which lessons should be drawn. -- Christiaan Vrolijk, International Affairs

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1840640103
• ISBN 13: 9781840640106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Sorrell Steve, Skea Jim