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of a regulated market for pollution rights (the EU emissions trading scheme) and a voluntary market for the provision of …, their organisation as a "pollution market", for the former, and as a "provision market", for second, means that different …
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Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
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measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
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Recent literature has explored both physical and policy linkage between trade and environment. Here we explore linkage through leverage in bargaining, whereby developed countries can use trade policy threats to achieve improved developing country environmental management, while developing...
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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-- over the physical and ecological impact of pollution, over the economic costs and benefits of reducing it, and over the …
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Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...
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Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in … online searches for pollution-related topics, adjustments in day-to-day consumption patterns to avoid pollution exposure, and …
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can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …
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