gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also … get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG emissions. This paper investigates the best short-term strategies … financial transfers of an international carbon market meant to provide incentives for the participation of developing countries …

tax can ensure sustainable growth but Northern carbon taxes alone cannot. Trade and directed technical change accelerate … environmental degradation either under laissez-faire or if the North implements carbon taxes, yet both help reduce environmental …

sensitivity analysis upon the role of the 2020 renewable targets and increased energy efficiency improvements is also carried out …. We conclude that a suitable and sustained carbon price needs to be implemented to move energy markets in Europe closer to … the optimal energy mix. We also highlight that an appropriate carbon pricing is sufficient to achieve both the emission …

This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH … elasticity of emissions in OECD countries. China has a higher elasticity than the OECD for a carbon tax lower than 50$ per ton of …. A Business-as-Usual scenario is compared with five scenarios in which Greenhouse Gases emissions are taxed, at different …

innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy …

complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and improve the economic efficiency of a mitigation policy package? To answer … temperature. The efficiency gains of combining innovation and carbon pricing policies are found to reach about 10% for a … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …

stimulates general purpose as well as clean energy R&D but reduces the incentive to invest in human capital formation. Human … capital increases the productivity of labour and the complementarity between labour and energy drives its pollution …-using effect (direct effect). When human capital is an essential input in the production of generic and energy dedicated knowledge …