Climate change and European emissions trading. Lessons for theory and practice

Contents:1. IntroductionMichael Faure and Marjan Peeters2. Legislative Choices and Legal Values: Considerations on the Further Design of the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme from a Viewpoint of Democratic AccountabilityMarjan Peeters3. Too Much Harmonization? An Analysis of the Commission's Proposal to Amend the EU ETS from the Perspective of Legal PrinciplesJavier De Cendra De Larragan4. A"The Emissions Trading SchemeA" Case-Law: Some New Paths for a Better European Environmental ProtectionNicolas Van Aken 5. European Emissions Trading and the Polluter-Pays Principle: Assessing Grandfathering and Over-AllocationEdwin Woerdman, Stefano Clo and Alessandra Arcuri6. EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and Competition LawStefan Weishaar7. The Underestimated Possibility of ex post Adjustments: Some Lessons from the Initial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading SchemeChris Backes, Kurt Deketelaere, Marjan Peeters and Marijke Schurmans8. Economic Impacts of the EU ETS: Preliminary EvidenceOnno Kuik and Frans Oosterhuis9. Regional Regulatory Initiatives Addressing GHG Leakage in the USAErik B. Bluemel10. Domestic Initiatives in the UKKaren E. MacDonald and Zen Makuch11. Linking the EU ETS to Other Emissions Trading SchemesJanneke Bazelmans12. Expansion of the EU ETS: The Case of Emissions Trading for AviationGriedre Kaminskaite-Salters14. The European Emissions Trading System: Auctions and their ChallengesStefan Weishaar