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Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade

Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade

Full Title: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
Author(s): Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins
Publisher(s): Resources for the Future (RFF)
Publication Date: November 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):

This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists, and draws a number of important lessons for future applications of this environmental policy instrument. References to a larger number of other emissions trading programs that have been implemented or proposed are included.

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