Here Come the States

Richard L. Sandor

Chapter 29 in How I Saw It:Analysis and Commentary on Environmental Finance (1999–2005), 2017, pp 119-121 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Following 5 years of talk in the US Congress—but no legislation—the American debate over cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has moved to the state level. As another example of the “bottom-up” approach previously discussed in this column, two states have passed laws to establish GHG “cap-and-trade” systems. Several others have passed, or are debating, laws establishing the infrastructure to facilitate trading. However, one particular state is considering legislation that has the potential to create a highly fractured US approach to climate change…

Keywords: Environment; Emissions; Trading; Finance; Derivatives; Water; Energy; Carbon; Catastrophe; Weather; Sustainability; Fisheries; Greenhouse Gases; Sulfur Dioxide; Acid Rain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813202658_0029 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813202658_0029 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

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:wsi:wschap:9789813202658_0029

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().