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Emissions trading: Emissions trading, or cap-and-trade, is a market-based approach to control pollution. Governments set an overall limit (cap) on emissions, issuing permits accordingly. Companies can trade these permits, incentivizing lower emissions. This system encourages efficiency as businesses innovate to reduce emissions, providing financial benefits to those emitting less and meeting environmental targets. See also Climate Change, Climate damages, Emissions, Emission targets.
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Economic Theories on Emissions Trading - Dictionary of Arguments

Mause I 440
Emissions Trading/Economic Theories: emissions trading took effect in 2005. Weidner and Mez 2008, p. 364.(1)
As it is irrelevant to the impact on the climate where and how greenhouse gases are saved, emissions should be reduced where the costs of prevention across technologies, sectors and countries are minimal. In principle, market instruments such as CO2 taxes or emissions trading systems can contribute to an efficient achievement of climate policy objectives.
Ströbele: "What was initially a national task, (...) has now become a club good for the entire EU with the introduction of the CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The CO2 price now reflected the scarcity of CO2 emission rights in all EU installations integrated into the system". (Ströbele et al. 2012, p. 349 f.)(2)

>Emission permits
, >Emission reduction credits, >Emission targets, >Emissions, >Emissions trading, >Climate change, >Climate damage, >Energy policy, >Clean Energy Standards, >Climate data, >Climate history, >Climate justice, >Climate periods, >Climate targets, >Climate impact research, >Carbon price, >Carbon price coordination, >Carbon price strategies, >Carbon tax, >Carbon tax strategies.

1. Weidner, Helmut, und Lutz Mez. 2008. German climate change policy: A success story with some flaws. The Journal of Environment & Development 17( 4): 356– 378.
2. Ströbele, Wolfgang, Michael Heuterkes, und Wolfgang Pfaffenberger. 2012. Energiewirtschaft. Einführung in Theorie und Politik, 3.   Aufl. München 2012

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Klaus Schubert,
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