TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matsumoto,Ken'ichi
AU  - Gao,Anton Ming-Zhi
TI  - Economic instruments to combat climate change in Asian countries
T2  - Energy and environmental law & policy series supranational and comparative aspects
SN  - 9789041154088
AV  - KNC706.5 .E28 2015
U1  - 338.9507 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
PB  - Wolters Kluwer, Law & Business
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Asia
KW  - Emissions trading
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Asia, where most of the countries do not currently have emission reduction obligations, is an important region to address climate change issues because of its large GHG emissions. The total emissions of eight key Asian countries (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and India) represent 44% of the world emissions. Thus, regimes in these countries addressing climate change, if successful, would make significant progress towards climate mitigation. Recently, economic instruments, particularly carbon tax and emissions trading scheme (ETS), have attracted the most attention to combat climate change because of their cost efficiency to reduce emissions. This book presents the recent development of economic instruments in eight representative Asian countries. Each chapter shows the legal design of each economic instrument. Furthermore, the effect of the instruments, and the challenges to and improvement of the instruments are also described." -- Page four of cover
ER  -