UK Emissions Trading from 2002–2004: Corporate Responses

Emissions trading and the management accountant - lessons from the UK emissions trading scheme

Lessons learned from previous emissions trading schemes

Designing an emissions trading scheme requires in-depth knowledge about several aspects. This paper attempts to clarify some important design points of the forthcoming emissions trading scheme for aviation under the EU ETS. Five general key points of system design are acknowledged and comparisons are made to previous and current emission trading schemes. Above all, it is argued that initial all...

Monetary Emissions Trading Mechanisms

Emissions trading mechanisms have been proposed, and in some cases implemented, as a tool to reduce pollution. We argue that emission-trading mechanisms share some similarities with monetary mechanisms. Both attempt to implement desirable allocations under various frictions, including risk and private information. In addition, implementation relies on the issue and trading of objects whose valu...

Pricing Strategies under Emissions Trading

ELFORSK Foreword Despite having had a deregulated electricity market in Sweden for over ten years we still need to increase our understanding as to how deregulated electricity markets actually work and how possible problems are to be solved. The electricity sector is key in greenhouse gas mitigation. Electricity generation accounts for roughly one-third of carbon dioxide emissions in the indust...

Is carbon emissions trading profitable?

a r t i c l e i n f o The European Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme introduced in 2005 has led to both spot and futures market trading of carbon emissions. However, despite seven years of trading, we have no knowledge on how profitable carbon emissions trading is. In this paper, we first test whether carbon forward returns predict carbon spot returns. We find strong evidence on both in-sample an...