Emission Trading europea e processi di eco-innovazione industriale

[Autom. eng. transl.] Industry is responsible in Italy for more than a third of total carbon dioxide emissions. The European Union introduced in 2003 (Directive 2003/87 / EC), making it operational since 2005, a Emission Trading system which, due to its geographic scope, the amount of emissions covered (approximately 50% of total EU) and number of industrial companies involved (about 12,000) qualifies as the most ambitious scheme exchange of emission permits existing in the world. Economic theory and empirical investigations agree in acknowledging environmental policies in general, and in particular the tools based on economic and market mechanisms such as emission trading, the ability to stimulate complex processes eco-innovation or "dynamic efficiency", ie generation and / or adoption of technological innovations aimed at reducing emissions. The research project in progress at CERIS-CNR is aimed at examine whether and to what extent the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) constitutes a stimulus the introduction and development of low carbon intensity technologies and what are the factors related to design and the national application of the Directive that influence these effects of the exchange instrument of permissions. In addition to the reconstruction of the theoretical bases of induced innovation processes, research focuses on the development of a specific case study concerning the Italian industrial sector of production of paper and pulp, aimed at identifying the response strategies of companies to the introduction of a restriction on its own emissions and on the possibility of trading permits.