Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India

Emissions trading schemes have great potential to lower pollution while minimizing compliance costs for firms in many areas now subject to traditional command-and-control regulation. This paper connects experience with emissions trading, from programs like the U.S. Acid Rain program, to lessons for...

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Main Authors: Duflo, Esther, Greenstone, Michael, Pande, Rohini, Ryan, Nicholas
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59465