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Climate Policy and Uncertainty: The Roles of Adaptation versus Mitigation
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The Next Step for Climate Change Policy
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The third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Kyoto in early December. These upcoming negotiations, aimed at reducing future emissions of greenhouse gases, are almost certain to accomplish nothing. Failure is likely because the...
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International Permit Trading: Creating a Sustainable System
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The prediction of future temperature increases depends critically on the projections of future greenhouse gas emissions. Yet there is a vigorous debate about how these projections should be undertaken and how reasonable is the approach of the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)...
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The McKibbin-Wilcoxen Proposal for Global Greenhouse Abatement
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In earlier papers we have argued that the Kyoto Protocol is not sustainable as a global climate change policy and have proposed an alternative policy regime based on a coordinated but decentralised system of national permit trading systems with a fixed internationally negotiated price for...
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We use an econometrically estimated multi-region, multi-sector general equilibrium model of the world economy to examine the effects of the tradable emissions permit system proposed in the 1997 Kyoto protocol, under various assumptions about that extent of international permit trading. We focus,...
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Beyond the Kyoto Protocol
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Global Emissions Trading: Prospects and Pitfalls
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