1st Edition
Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China Designing a National Emissions Trading System
By Bo Miao
Copyright 2013
218 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to accept its responsibilities in cutting greenhouse gases. Deteriorating air quality clearly shows that... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Rationale for China’s Institutional Framework of Emissions Trading 3. Why Emissions Trading? An Empirical Study on China's Own Experience 4. What We Have Learned: Implications From Other Countries Experiences 5. Special Considerations For a GHG Cap-and-Trade Program in China 6. Key Design Elements of a Multi-Pollutant Cap-and-Trade System 7. Conclusion
Biography
Bo Miao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.
"It is valuable reading for experts, policymakers, practitioners and economists". - Simona Grano, University of Zürich, Switzerland
