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  • Powered by the state or finance? The organization of China’s carbon markets

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    Lo, Alex Y
    Howes, Michael
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    Howes, Michael J.
    Year published
    2013
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    This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. China witnessed proliferation of domestic carbon markets before attempting to institutionalize the carbon trading regime. Direct and strong government intervention is a key feature of this process. The domestic carbon markets are primarily created, shaped, and operated by the central and local governments supported by a cohort of macro-economic planners, local economic agencies, state-owned financial institutions, and business organizations with government backing. Key market players are institutionally ...
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    This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. China witnessed proliferation of domestic carbon markets before attempting to institutionalize the carbon trading regime. Direct and strong government intervention is a key feature of this process. The domestic carbon markets are primarily created, shaped, and operated by the central and local governments supported by a cohort of macro-economic planners, local economic agencies, state-owned financial institutions, and business organizations with government backing. Key market players are institutionally dependent on the state - much more so than in capitalist economies. Private investments have not been adequately and effectively mobilized due to unfavorable economic, regulatory, and policy conditions. Non-state financial actors are not an active and influential player. This indicates a hierarchical relationship between the state and finance and a clear asymmetry of power in the organization of China's carbon markets. These observations constitute a notable difference to the international carbon markets, which are subject to the strong influence of private finance. China has put the market-based policy instrument of carbon trading under a substantial concentration of state power. The findings have important implications for understanding the rise of carbon markets in non-traditional capitalist economies.
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    Journal Title
    Eurasian Geography and Economics
    Volume
    54
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2013.870794
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    © 2014 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Eurasian Geography and Economics on 08 Jan 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2013.870794
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    Applied economics
    Human geography
    Environment policy
    Environmental politics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/61110
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