Act Locally, Trade Globally [electronic resource]: Emissions trading for climate policy /
International Energy Agency.
International Energy Agency.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2005.
Climate policy raises a number of challenges for the energy sector, the most significant being the transition from a high to a low-CO2 energy path in a few decades.  Act Locally, Trade Globally seeks to provide a complete picture of the future role of emissions trading in climate policy and the energy sector.  It offers an overview of existing trading systems, their mechanisms, and looks into the future of the instrument for limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : emissions trading and climate policy -- The Kyoto Protocol mechanisms -- Emissions trading : targeting sources -- Beyond industrial activities -- Broadening and deepening -- Act locally, trade globally.
Climate policy raises a number of challenges for the energy sector, the most significant being the transition from a high to a low-CO2 energy path in a few decades.  Act Locally, Trade Globally seeks to provide a complete picture of the future role of emissions trading in climate policy and the energy sector.  It offers an overview of existing trading systems, their mechanisms, and looks into the future of the instrument for limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Emissions trading.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Environmental policy.