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& Environment, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, D.C. Kate, as a senior analyst working for the Government Accountability Office, you have recently been involved in research projects dealing with climate change and policy responses. Can you briefly describe the nature and focus of your work? I am working with a team of analysts to provide insights on international experiences with marketbased programs to reduce greenhouse gases, specifically the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development

Camilla Bausch, Sandra Cavalieri

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best-known greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading initiative in the U.S. is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). As of October 2007, a group of 10 states in the northeastern U.S. have agreed to begin an emissions trading system on 1 January 2009. This proposed system covers the electricity energy sector; more specifically generators with power plants in the RGGI region with over 25 MW of nameplate capacity, totalling approximately 810 facilities in the participating states.1 Although RGGI is a sub-national regional initiative,