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Emissions Trading in Practice: A Handbook on Design and Implementation

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Summary

This handbook is intended to help decision makers, policy practitioners, and stakeholders achieve the goal of maximizing the effectiveness of ETS. It explains the rationale for an ETS and sets out the most important steps of ETS design. In doing so, it draws both on conceptual analysis and on some of the most important practical lessons learned to date from implementing ETSs around the world.

Issuer

World Bank

Year

2016

Region

International

Issuer (type)

World Bank (International)

Instrument type

Handbook

Disclosure instrument

No

Geographical scope

International

Mandatory or voluntary

Voluntary

Collaborators

Partnership for Market Readiness (pmr); International Carbon Action Partnership (icap)

Text analysis

    • Moderate 0.68%
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    • E focus: carbon intensity, climate change, conservation, deforestation, degradation, emissions, energy, energy use, environment, environmental certification, environmental policy, fisheries, forests, ghg emissions, greenhouse gas, land use, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, renewables, resource efficiency, restoration, soil, waste, water, water quality, biodiversity
    • S focus: data security, diversity, systemic risk, compensation
    • G focus: audit, legal challenge, legal challenges, lobbying, risk management, accountability
    • Agriculture, Education, Finance, Management, Manufacturing, Mining, Professional services, Public administration