Seven regions in China are currently conducting trial greenhouse gas emission trading pilot programmes in preparation for the development by 2015 of a nationwide cap and trade programme mandated by the 12th Five-Year Plan. Whilst China's carbon emission trading pilots are relatively recent, China possesses over fifteen years of experience in sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions trading. Like the current carbon emission pilots, various SO 2 pilots were conducted covering nine cities and four provinces before adoption of a national SO 2 emissions trading programme. This paper considers how China's nascent greenhouse gas cap and trade programme may evolve and what policymakers can learn from China's own extensive domestic experience with SO 2 emissions trading, which remains largely unexplored in the literature on China's carbon markets.
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