Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113932 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 38.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These seven pilot regions are deliberately selected to be at varying stages of development and are given considerable leeway to design their own schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but vary considerably in their approach to issues such as the coverage of sectors, allocation of allowances, price uncertainty and market stabilization, potential market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China opts for emissions trading, rather than carbon or environmental taxes at least initially, discusses the key common and varying features of these carbon trading pilots and their first-year performance, draws the lessons learned, discusses the potential pathways for evolution of regional pilot carbon trading schemes into a nationwide carbon trading scheme, and raises fundamental issues that must be addressed in order to make such an emissions trading scheme to work reliably and effectively and with an increasingly expanded coverage and scope.
Subjects: 
Pilot Carbon Trading Schemes
Environmental Taxes
Compliance
Carbon Offsets
Energy Prices
China
JEL: 
H23
O13
P28
Q43
Q48
Q52
Q54
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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