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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Burgess, Robin - 2011

incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation …Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world …'s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the …

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Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility : Evidence from the 2016 Climate Policy Shock

Ramelli, Stefano; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zeckhauser, Richard - 2019 - Revised July 2019

Donald Trump's election and his nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on US climate-change policy. We study firms' stock-price reactions and institutional investors' portfolio adjustments after these...

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Global Melting? The Economics of Disintegration of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Nordhaus, William D. - 2018

Concerns about the impact on large-scale earth systems have taken center stage in the scientific and economic analysis of climate change. The present study analyzes the economic impact of a potential disintegration of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). The method is to combine a small geophysical...

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Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting

DeCanio, Stephen J.; Manski, Charles F.; Sanstad, Alan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Integrated assessment models have become the primary tools for comparing climate policies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy comparisons have often been performed by considering a planner who seeks to make optimal trade-offs between the costs of carbon abatement and the...

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The design and implementation of US climate policy

Fullerton, Don (contributor); … - 2012

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Climate Royalty Surcharges

Prest, Brian C.; Stock, James H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In 2019, production on federal lands comprised 40% of domestic coal, 22% of domestic oil, and 12% of domestic natural gas production. Currently, the federal fossil fuel leasing program does not consider the climate costs of burning federal fossil fuels. One way to do so is through a climate...

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Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025

Bistline, John; Clausing, Kimberly A.; Mehrotra, Neil; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

With the expiration of many tax cuts and unmet climate targets, 2025 could be a crucial year for climate policy in the United States. Using an integrated model of energy supply and demand, this paper aims to assess climate policies that the U.S. federal government may consider in 2025 and to...

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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime

Tian, Huifang - 2012

The UNFCCC process of negotiating multilateral carbon emissions reductions thus far has focused on approximately equiproportional cuts in annual carbon emissions by country along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol agreement. But now, with the objective of involving large developing countries such...

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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...

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What We Know and Don't Know about Climate Change, and Implications for Policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2020

There is a lot we know about climate change, but there is also a lot we don't know. Even if we knew how much CO2 will be emitted over the coming decades, we wouldn't know how much temperatures will rise as a result. And even if we could predict the extent of warming that will occur, we can say...

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