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Challenges for New Zealand's carbon market

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New Zealand is often seen as a leader when it comes to environmental policies, but it needs to do much more to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

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Figure 1: Carbon credits imported from or exported to overseas registries in the NZ ETS, 2009–2012.
Figure 2: Carbon credits surrendered under the NZ ETS.
Figure 3: The market price of NZ carbon credits on a given day (based on publicly available data).

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  1. Luis Mundaca and Jessika Luth Richter are at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Tegnérsplatsen 4, 22100 Lund, Sweden,

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