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the world mean temperature exceeding 2◦ Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions must not … restricting emissions to the global carbon budget. In its simplest form, the cost-effective global policy is shown to consist of a … the abating country to tax its first-period consumption and to tax or subsidize its emissions in the first and/or second …
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Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
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cleaner technologies. In contrast to this argument, we show that the cost of environmental policy (a reduction in emissions …
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This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in … cases, reductions in automobile externalities (net of fuel taxes/subsidies). Pricing co-benefits reduces CO2 emissions from … exposure to pollution) and differentiated pricing of CO2 emissions therefore yields higher net benefits (by 23 percent) than …
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Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...
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rule; in the cost-effective (carbon budget) world, only an emissions trading scheme with free banking and borrowing can …
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an emissions cap, fuel demand becomes less price elastic. In response, a monopolistic exporter sets the fuel export price …
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. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …
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climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the … welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme. Whereas that prior paper solves for changes in emissions quantities and …
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If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition’s equilibrium policy distorts trade and it is not time consistent. By adding a market for the right to...
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