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Environmental Finance and Investments [electronic resource] / by Marc Chesney, Jonathan Gheyssens, Luca Taschini.

By: Chesney, Marc [author.].
Contributor(s): Gheyssens, Jonathan [author.] | Taschini, Luca [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Springer Texts in Business and Economics: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XIV, 186 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642366239.Subject(s): Finance | Climate change | Environmental economics | Finance | Finance, general | Climate Change Management and Policy | Environmental EconomicsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 332 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
1 Introduction -- 2 The Issue of Climate Change.- 3 The Rise of the Emission Markets -- 4 The Economics of Mitigation Strategies -- 5 The Finance of Environment Investments -- 6 The Emission Price Dynamics -- Bibliography.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The current economic and environmental situation poses fundamental questions that this book aims to answer: Under which conditions could a market-based approach contribute to a decrease in emissions? How are abatement and investment strategies generated or promoted under permit regimes like the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)? In the context of the EU ETS, what is the trade-off between production, technological changes and pollution? This book is intended to provide students and practitioners the knowledge and theoretical tools they need in order to answer these and other more general questions in the context of so-called environmental finance theory, a new field of research that investigates the economic, financial and managerial impacts of market-based environmental policies.
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1 Introduction -- 2 The Issue of Climate Change.- 3 The Rise of the Emission Markets -- 4 The Economics of Mitigation Strategies -- 5 The Finance of Environment Investments -- 6 The Emission Price Dynamics -- Bibliography.

The current economic and environmental situation poses fundamental questions that this book aims to answer: Under which conditions could a market-based approach contribute to a decrease in emissions? How are abatement and investment strategies generated or promoted under permit regimes like the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)? In the context of the EU ETS, what is the trade-off between production, technological changes and pollution? This book is intended to provide students and practitioners the knowledge and theoretical tools they need in order to answer these and other more general questions in the context of so-called environmental finance theory, a new field of research that investigates the economic, financial and managerial impacts of market-based environmental policies.

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