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EFFICIENT CONTRACTS FOR CARBON CREDITS FROM REFORESTATION PROJECTS

Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2004

This paper tackles the complex issue of how buyers and sellers within a domestic carbon credit system designed to include regenerating indigenous forest would optimally design contracts for trades of the new good, “carbon sink credits”. The paper begins by briefly defining the constraints...

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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests

Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - EconWPA - 2005

Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012). However, without active policy, forests are unlikely to contribute as much in...

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The likely regional impacts of an agricultural emissions policy in New Zealand: Preliminary analysis

Sin, Isabelle; Brunton, Emma; Hendy, Joanna; Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2005

Hendy and Kerr (2005b) find that an emissions charge on agricultural methane and nitrous oxide of $25 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent would be likely to reduce New Zealand’s net land-use related emissions for commitment period one in the order of 3%, with full accounting. The...

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SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER POLLUTION IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY OPTIONS

Adenuga, Ade; Ogujiuba, Kanayo; Ohuche, Friday - EconWPA - 2005

process of environmental degradation via water pollution in Nigeria. While it notes that a careful management of water as a … possibility of applying economic instruments to mitigate environmental degradation, with particular reference to water pollution …. The paper posits that water pollution control need to be supported by coordinated policy, adequate legal and institutional …

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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution, higher the use of informal sector product, higher is the pollution … created and higher the discrepancy between actual and permissible levels of pollution, so that the emission tax payable by the … formal sector is also higher. The efficiency of a representative worker is inversely related to the level of pollution. In …

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Inconstitucionalidad por inconmesurabilidad de modelos económicos: El caso de las tasas retributivas por contaminación

Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004

The author studies the incommensurability of economic models as a type, little explored of unconstitutionality, called the unconstitutionality for incommensurability of economic models. The author statutes that many of Colombian rules relapse in this type of methodological error and due to the...

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Utilizzo e diffusione della valutazione economica dei beni

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

La valutazione economica delle risorse naturali fornisce al decisore pubblico una base informativa ampia e condivisibile, in grado di orientarne efficacemente la decisione. Essa quindi può favorire il raggiungimento degli obiettivi di miglioramento e di integrazione ambientale che gli indirizzi...

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Environmental valuation in European Union policy-making

Grasso, Marco; Pareglio, Stefano - EconWPA - 2002

This paper offers a critical review of natural resource valuation and points out the role of economic valuation in EU policy-making. First of all, we specify the meaning of the economic value of environmental amenities, illustrate the most reliable and often used economic valuation techniques,...

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Stochastic programming in energy

Wallace, Stein W.; Fleten, Stein-Erik - EconWPA - 2002

We give the reader a tour of good energy optimization models that explicitly deal with uncertainty. The uncertainty usually stems from unpredictability of demand and/or prices of energy, or from resource availability and prices. Since most energy investments or operations involve irreversible...

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Franchise Bidding in the Water Industry – Auction Schemes and Investment Incentives

Meister, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

The periodical re-auction of a water monopoly concession causes the danger of underinvestment. If the life-time of specific assets such as water pipes exceeds the contract length and transferring the ownership of assets is difficult, the incumbent franchisee faces a hold-up problem. Using a...

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