Linking of Emissions Trading Schemes

Matthias Machinek is a spokesman of one of the four German transmission system operators, which have a central role in the German Energy Transformation. Before that he worked as a political analyst in European and American carbon markets and as an office manager in the Parliament of Northrhine-Westphalia. He wrote his dissertation about the topic of linkings of emissions trading schemes at Prof. Dr. Thomas Jäger's chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the University of Cologne.

Introduction.- Theories, methodologies and hypotheses.- Technical Part.- Gathering Input: Interviews with central actors of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Californian Cap and Trade Program.- Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA).- Linking possibilities in practice: The case of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the California Cap and Trade Program.- Two schemes, two designs: Opposing policy targets?.- Conclusion.