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International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally … that, even without any effective emission reductions in the initial commitment period, the ratification of Kyoto is … important for the further policy process of climate protection. The Kyoto Protocol has established a flexible broad …
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meet their revised Kyoto targets, and the environmental effectiveness. Our results show that the US withdrawal from the … Kyoto Protocol has great impact on the economic costs and environmental effectiveness of the Protocol since it would lead to …
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This paper provides an overview of the treatment of technological change in economic models of environmental policy. Numerous economic modeling studies have confirmed the sensitivity of mid- and long-run climate change mitigation cost and benefit projections to assumptions about technology...
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pilot phase of the Kyoto Protocol. …
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The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number and size of firms. Whether economies of scale rise or fall in a particular industry...
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-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions … market where greenhouse gas emission allowances of signatory Kyoto countries can be traded. In this paper we investigate the … implications of Russian market power for environmental effectiveness and regional compliance costs to the Kyoto Protocol taking …
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Despite of the apparent failure of the Kyoto Protocol with respect to environmental effectiveness, it has established a … broad international mechanism that might be able to provide a global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions during a second … commitment period. In this paper we investigate the likely future of post-Kyoto policies. Our primary objective is to identify …
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Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...
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Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform which entails a continuous increase in energy taxes in conjunction with a...
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in the Kyoto Protocol. Furthermore since 1993 trade liberalization has taken place between all associated countries and … countries into the EU as well as on the Kyoto Protocol. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the linkage of … environmental policies under the Kyoto Protocol and trade liberalization in the process of eastern enlargement using a computable …
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