Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
ISBN: 978-1-138-83926-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book analyses the rationale and the basic design of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. It also discusses its workings during the first two trading periods (2005-2007, 2008-2012) and the initiation of the third phase (2013-2020), following a revision of the scheme. The book offers a critical assessment of the EU ETS from a radical political economy standpoint, challenging mainstream accounts. The analysis reveals the limited environmental effectiveness and distributional injustice of the scheme. It concludes that, since these pitfalls are generated from the nature of the scheme and its embeddedness in the EU capitalist economies, enduring solutions to climate change require radical transformation of the economy and society, including a new energy structure primarily based on renewable energy.
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1. Introduction 2. The climate change problem and instruments to mitigate it 3. The basic design of EU ETS and the workings of the first trading period (2005-2007) 4. The second trading period (2008-2012) 5. The revision of EU ETS and the initiation of the third trading period (2013-2020) 6. The EU ETS as applied to a peripheral country: The case of Greece 7. An Assessment of the EU ETS from a critical perspective 8. Conclusions and way forward