Managing Investment Revenues and Costs in the Transportation Climate Initiative Region

The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) is a State effort to coordinate investment in sustainable transportation and infrastructure. TCI participating states include Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. One possible TCI component is emissions cap and trade. This brief discusses price volatility and price levels in carbon markets; emissions and cost containment in carbon markets; and emissions and cost containment reserves in TCI. It looks at managing the variability in emissions allowance prices, auction revenues, and costs.

• Record URL:
  https://media.rff.org/documents/IB_20-05_v4.pdf
• 
• Summary URL:
  https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/managing-investment-revenues-and-costs-transportation-climate-initiative-region/
• Corporate Authors:

  Resources for the Future

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Burtraw, Dallas
  • Domeshek, Maya
  • Wietelman, Derek
• Publication Date: 2020-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon dioxide; Costs; Emissions trading; Investments; Policy analysis; Pollutants; Prices; Revenues; States; Sustainable transportation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01748351
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Issue Brief 20-05
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 21 2020 10:40AM