Personal carbon trading in different national contexts

Tina Fawcett

Climate Policy, 2010, vol. 10, issue 4, 339-352

Abstract: Although personal carbon trading (PCT) is envisaged as a policy which could work in many developed countries, most research work has been undertaken in a UK context. Could the significant national variations in energy infrastructure, policy and patterns of personal carbon emissions diminish the viability and effectiveness of PCT outside the UK? This preliminary work has identified important national and regional variations in the EU and the USA, gathered together relevant data, and identified additional challenges for PCT not hitherto recognized within UK-focused research. A research agenda for internationalizing PCT research is proposed, which details the data, methodological development and future debates needed. Consideration of the appropriate geographical scale for implementing PCT suggests national rather than EU-level implementation within Europe, although subnational, state-based implementation may be relevant in the USA. While close attention must be paid to the interaction of PCT and individual national contexts, and detailed design of the policy is likely to vary between nations, the evidence suggests that PCT could be of relevance for many countries, not just the UK.

Date: 2010
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.3763/cpol.2009.0039 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:339-352

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/tcpo20

DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0039

Access Statistics for this article

Climate Policy is currently edited by Professor Michael Grubb

More articles in Climate Policy from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().