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Impacts of Initial Quota Allocation on Regional Macro-economy and Industry Competitiveness

Wu Jie, Fan Ying, Xia Yan, Liu Jingyu   

  1. Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
  • Received:2015-04-16 Online:2015-12-30 Published:2015-12-25

Abstract:

Emissions trading is an important means to combat climate change in China and some carbon trading pilots have made positive progress, which aim to gradually form a unified national carbon markets. Initial quota allocation is a key point in emission trading scheme design. Through the establishment of a China multi-regional Energy-Environment-Economy CGE model-CE3MS which is combined with an emission trading module, this paper depicts the decision-making optimization of trading sectors in each region and analyzes regional macro-economic effects and industrial impacts of carbon market under different allocations. The research shows that in the early period of unified carbon market in China, a hybrid allocation of free allocation in energy sectors and full auction in energy-intensive sectors is the optimal way.

Key words: carbon market, initial quota, allocation method, CGE model