Overview

Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world, but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them? How do these markets function and what is the role of design? Carrying out a ground-breaking analysis of their design and diffusion, this book covers all the major carbon market systems and processes around the world: the EU, RGGI, California, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australia, China, South Korea and Kazakhstan. It offers a systematic, in-depth discussion and comparison of the key design features in these systems with expert contributors exploring how, and to what extent, these features have been shaped by central policy diffusion mechanisms and domestic politics. By focussing on the specific design features of the instruments used, this volume makes important contributions to diffusion theory, highlighting how ETS diffusion processes more often have resulted in design divergence than convergence, and discussing the implications of this finding for the vision of linked systems in the post-Paris era. It will be of significant interest to a broad audience interested in the emergence, evolution, functioning and interaction of carbon markets.

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Author:   Jørgen Wettestad (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway) ,  Lars Gulbrandsen (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367264468

ISBN 10:   0367264463
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   09 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface. Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 Theory and Method. Chapter 3 EU Emissions Trading: Frontrunner – and ‘Black Sheep’? Chapter 4 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: US Pioneer Seeking to Avoid EU Mistakes? Chapter 5 California’s Cap-and-Trade Programme: The Role of Diffusion. Chapter 6 Tokyo’s Emissions Trading System: Japan’s First Mandatory Cap-and-Trade Scheme. Chapter 7 Adopting and Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme. Chapter 8 Australia: Domestic Politics, Diffusion and Emissions Trading Design as a Technical and Political Project. Chapter 9 South Korea: East Asian Pioneer Learning from the EU. Chapter 10 Emissions Trading in Kazakhstan: Complex Application of the ‘EU Model’. Chapter 11 China’s Carbon-Market: In it to Learn it. Chapter 12 ETS Design and Potential Effects in China: Comparison with the EU. Chapter 13 Comparative Analysis and Conclusions.

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In a globalized world, characterized by competition and opportunities for emulation and learning, emissions trading systems in different jurisdictions might be expected to converge toward a common design. Instead, over the last twenty years, designs of these systems have diverged in numerous ways. The Evolution of Carbon Markets shows that diffusion can usefully be redefined to include learning and adaptation leading to policy divergence. Divergence - whether as a result of diffusion or autonomous action - is generated by the fact that interests and the configurations of potential winning coalitions vary across jurisdictions. The design of emissions trading systems is profoundly shaped by domestic politics. - Robert O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University This is an important and enlightening book that should be required reading for students, scholars, and policy-makers interested in carbon markets and climate change. Providing an unparalleled picture of the global status of carbon markets, it is the most comprehensive examination of the politics of emissions trading systems available. By bringing together both domestic political dynamics and international diffusion processes in one analytic framework, the volume provides insight into the widespread adoption of emissions trading and the ways that is has developed in different ways in diverse places. The insights developed in the volume have significant implications for the development of global carbon markets and lay bare the opportunities and challenges for emissions trading to play a major role in the global response to climate change. - Matthew Hoffmann, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Emissions trading has emerged as a key policy response to the urgent problem of global climate change. Yet little is still known about how and why a diversity of countries, regions and cities have embraced the policy instrument. By bringing together an impressive range of case studies - from California to China - this book underscores the context-specific nature of emissions trading, and provides timely insights into the prospects for a global carbon market. - Harro van Asselt, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland

In a globalized world, characterized by competition and opportunities for emulation and learning, emissions trading systems in different jurisdictions might be expected to converge toward a common design. Instead, over the last twenty years, designs of these systems have diverged in numerous ways. The Evolution of Carbon Markets shows that diffusion can usefully be redefined to include learning and adaptation leading to policy divergence. Divergence - whether as a result of diffusion or autonomous action - is generated by the fact that interests and the configurations of potential winning coalitions vary across jurisdictions. The design of emissions trading systems is profoundly shaped by domestic politics. - Robert O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University This is an important and enlightening book that should be required reading for students, scholars, and policy-makers interested in carbon markets and climate change. Providing an unparalleled picture of the global status of carbon markets, it is the most comprehensive examination of the politics of emissions trading systems available. By bringing together both domestic political dynamics and international diffusion processes in one analytic framework, the volume provides insight into the widespread adoption of emissions trading and the ways that is has developed in different ways in diverse places. The insights developed in the volume have significant implications for the development of global carbon markets and lay bare the opportunities and challenges for emissions trading to play a major role in the global response to climate change. - Matthew Hoffmann, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Emissions trading has emerged as a key policy response to the urgent problem of global climate change. Yet little is still known about how and why a diversity of countries, regions and cities have embraced the policy instrument. By bringing together an impressive range of case studies - from California to China - this book underscores the context-specific nature of emissions trading, and provides timely insights into the prospects for a global carbon market. - Harro van Asselt, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland

Author Information

Jørgen Wettestad is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway. He has published several books and numerous articles on international and EU environmental policy, with particular attention to emissions trading. His most recent books are Rescuing EU Emissions Trading: The Climate Policy Flagship. Palgrave 2016 (together with Torbjørg Jevnaker) and EU Climate Policy: Industry, Policy Interaction and External Environment. Ashgate, 2013 (together with Elin L.Boasson). He has been a visiting scholar at IIASA, Austria, and the Institute for International Studies, Berkeley, CA. He has also led and participated in several EU funded projects, participated in numerous international research projects, and been Programme Director at the FNI for a long period. Wettestad serves regularly as peer reviewer for international journals and national research councils, and has been editorial board member of the journal Climate Policy since 2001. Lars H. Gulbrandsen is a research professor and the deputy director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, where he also served as director of the research programme on Global Environmental Governance and Law (2000-2016). His main research interests are within the fields of global environmental politics and international political economy, with a particular focus on climate and energy policy, forest and fisheries certification, private regulation and governance, and corporate social responsibility. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and an MSc from the London School of Economics, and has been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Gulbrandsen participates in several international research projects, serves regularly as peer reviewer for international journals and national research councils, and is editorial board member of the journal Global Environmental Politics.

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