An Empirical Study of the Tokyo EmissionsEmissions Trading SchemeTrading Scheme: An Ex Post Analysis of Emissions from UniversityUniversity Buildings

Tatsuya Abe () and Toshi Arimura
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Tatsuya Abe: Waseda University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Carbon Pricing in Japan, 2021, pp 97-116 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Tokyo Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the first cap -and-trade program of CO2 emissionsCO2 emissions in Asia, and it is unique in regulating commercial and service sectors. We examine the impacts of the Tokyo ETSTokyo ETS on CO2 emissions and energy consumption by universities in the first phase. Focusing on universities allows us to estimate the effects of the Tokyo ETS separately from the economic stagnation Japan experienced after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 because universities are less likely to be affected by economic fluctuations compared to other sectors. In addition to the ETS, other factors may have achieved CO2 emissions reductions in Tokyo in this phase due to the influence of the earthquake. To deal with the shortage of electricity supply after the Fukushima disaster, several measures were undertaken, such as rolling blackoutsRolling blackouts and power-saving ordersPower-saving orders, particularly in the Tokyo Electricity Power Company’s jurisdiction. To capture the characteristics for each university at the campus level and their experience with being regulation targets of the policies mentioned above, we conducted a mail surveyMail survey for universities in Japan and obtained panel data that contain information about both regulated and unregulated universities over 5 years (2009–2013). The difference-in-differencesdifference-in-differences approach reveals that the Tokyo ETS caused regulated universities to reduce their CO2 emissions and energy consumption by approximately 3–5% relative to unregulated universities in the first phase. In addition, we find that the quantitative regulations, such as rolling blackouts and power-saving orders, also had an impact on the universities’ behavior.

Keywords: Emissions trading scheme; Tokyo ETS; Universities; Policy effects; Rolling blackouts; Power-saving orders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6964-7_6

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