Assessing the impact of ETS trading profit on emission abatements based on firm-level transactions

oleh: Jianfeng Guo, Fu Gu, Yinpeng Liu, Xi Liang, Jianlei Mo, Ying Fan

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01

Deskripsi

Carbon emission trading is an important market-based policy instrument to reduce GHG emission using reward-punishment mechanism. Here the authors show that the EU emission trading schemes operate at its designed purpose and there is a positive and linear relationship between firm profits and the firms’ efforts in abatement.