Evaluating Voluntary Climate Programs in the United States
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Keywords
voluntary; regulation; energy; climate change;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2010-05-29 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2010-05-29 (Environmental Economics)
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