Managing unintended consequences of carbon pricing programs
- Closing the door to fraud in the EU ETS (PDF) - Briefing on news of fraud and steps being taken to prevent future instances
- Pollution Markets and Social Equity: Analyzing the Fairness of Cap and Trade (PDF) - Proposes three problems with cap-and-trade systems based on social equity reasoning
- Cap and Trade: Market Oversight and Enforcement (PDF) - Information about the Market Oversight and Enforcement of California carbon market
- How to Lower Costs of Climate Change Policies for Consumers (PDF) - Explains why including a climate rebate program in cap-and-trade systems reduces prices
- Regulating trading: Simple regulations can ensure a fair and transparent carbon trading market (PDF) - Argues the dangers of unregulated carbon markets
- Economic Analysis of a Cap and Trade Program (PDF) - Analyzes various strategies toward limiting market manipulation
- The Climate Gap (PDF) - Explains how climate crises disproportionately affect people of color and the poor
California model
- The World’s Carbon Markets: A Case Study Guide to Emissions Trading - California (PDF) - Describes California's various policy goals and implementations since Assembly Bill 32 in 2006.
- Summary of Final Rules for California’s Cap-and-Trade Program (PDF) - Summary of California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms
- Should California Include Motor Vehicle Fuels in a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program? (PDF) - Argues for California's inclusion of Motor Vehicle Fuels in cap-and-trade program
- Overview of ARB Emissions Trading Program (PDF) - Brief fact sheet about California's ARB Cap-and-Trade program
- Recommendations for Designing a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade System for California (PDF) - California Air Resources Board's 2007 Market Advisory Board and their design
- The Importance of Pricing Transportation Fuels Within California’s Cap-and-Trade Program (PDF) - Argues importance of pricing transportation fuels in California's cap-and-trade program
Complementary policy strategies
- Market Mechanism: Understanding the Options (PDF) - Explains how market-based policies can achieve climate goals more cheaply and efficiently than alternative policy
- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Washington State (PDF) - Comprehensive assessment of recent literature on the impending effects of climate change in Washington
- Washington Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF) - List and brief description of current Washington policies to reduce GHG separate from cap-and-trade
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increasing Transportation Choices for the Future (PDF) - Explains the Transportation Implementation Working Group's policy strategies for re-conceptualizing WA public transport
Survey of existing program progress
- Climate Change 101 Cap and Trade (PDF) - A basic overview of how cap-and-trade systems work
- Summary for Policymakers IPCC WGIII AR5 (PDF) - Comprehensive assessment of literature on mitigation of climate change
- About the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (PDF) - Brief overview of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
- Is Cap-and-Trade a Sufficient Carbon Policy for Transportation? (PDF) - Testimony at federal hearing evaluating cap-and-trade efficacy
- Emissions Trading Worldwide - International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) Status Report 2014 (PDF) - Survey of current and future global emission trading systems (ETS)
- Western Climate Initiative Design Summary (PDF) - Design summary of this conglomerate's cap-and-trade initiative
- The World’s Carbon Markets: A Case Study Guide to Emissions Trading - Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (PDF) - Summarizes and evaluates Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative case study example of cap-and-trade
- The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) (PDF) - Overview of the European Union's Emission Trading System