Allocating CO2 allowances to emitters in China: A multi-objective decision approach

Bangzhu Zhu, Mingxing Jiang, Kaijian He, Julien Chevallier and Rui Xie

Energy Policy, 2018, vol. 121, issue C, 441-451

Abstract: China CO2 allowance (CHA) allocation for emitters is one of the pivotal issues to build the effective national carbon market. In this study, we propose a multi-objective decision approach, incorporating the principles of fairness, efficiency, and feasibility, to allocate the CHAs to emitters from the industry perspective. Taking Guangdong, China as an example, we employ the proposed approach for allocating the CHAs to six major industries of petrochemical, chemical, cement, steel, nonferrous metals, and electricity power by 2030. The empirical results show that there are significant conflicts between principles. The proposed approach can not only effectively eliminate the defects of single-object models to make the allocation results more reasonable and acceptable, but also achieve optimal allocation options under various decision preferences. The power industry has the highest CHA and petrochemical industry has the lowest one, and petrochemical, chemical, and steel industries have the greatest potential to reduce carbon intensity. Single-factor sensitivity analysis shows that the CHA/104 Yuan added value (TY) of the industry with lower emissions is more sensitive to the changes of physical capital stock but received fewer impacts from the changes of emissions cap for six industries.

Keywords: Q57; N55; 044; China CO2 allowance allocation; Major industries; Multi-objective decision analysis; Fairness; Efficiency; Feasibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.07.002

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