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Ending The Honeymoon: Deconstructing Emissions Trading Discourses, Sanja Bogojević

Sanja Bogojević

Emissions trading schemes are often portrayed as straightforward regulatory strategies. The aim of this article is to initiate a much needed environmental law debate on this subject and defy any claims about emissions trading being unproblematic from a legal viewpoint. In doing so, I deconstruct emissions trading discourses, or more precisely, I categorise different viewpoints, as presented in emissions trading literature, in the Economic Efficiency, Private Property Rights, and Command-and-Control models. These reflect ways in which emissions trading schemes are understood in the relevant scholarly discussions. More importantly, the models show that emissions trading can be viewed through different lenses, …