Cap and Trade in Ontario
Adam Fremeth; Patrick Shulist
Product #:9B18M132
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:General Management
Setting:Canada
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Learning Objectives
- familiarize students with the mechanics of carbon markets;
- understand the concept of marginal abatement cost and how this forms the basis for making efficient decisions in carbon markets;
- understand the concept of carbon intensity of production as a way of explaining how companies are differentially affected by the imposition of a carbon market;
- highlight how the efficacy of a company’s production, investment, and carbon trading strategies depends upon the decisions of other companies; and
- compare the mechanics and outcomes of the cap-and-trade system with other regulatory approaches: command and control, carbon taxes, and laissez-faire.