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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates …. This article examines 17 REDD interventions under development in Indonesia, reports trends in project design, and assesses …
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National and subnational economies have started implementing carbon pricing systems unilaterally, from the bottom up. Therefore, the potential linking of individual cap-and-trade programs to capture efficiency gains and other benefits is of keen interest. This paper introduces a two-tiered...
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Economic analyses of climate change policies frequently focus on reductions of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions via market-based, economywide policies. The current course of environment and energy policy debate in the United States, however, suggests an alternative outcome: inefficiently...
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whether carbon sequestration policies — such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation — should be part … of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities. We investigate the cost of forest-based carbon sequestration. In … abatement supply function from energy-based analyses, suggesting that forest-based carbon sequestration merits inclusion in a …
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policy regime that is unfolding. One reason is inadequate recognition of a variety of institutions. This paper addresses … three ways the standard model may inadequately anticipate the role of institutions in the actual implementation of climate … is to infuse incentive-based thinking into existing institutions and the conventional regulatory framework. In a complex …
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We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that...
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This paper discusses the interplay between the choice of the discount rate, greenhouse gas mitigation and endogenous technological change. Neglecting the issue of uncertainty it is shown that the green golden rule stock of atmospheric carbon is uniquely determined, but is not affected by...
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Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework...
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The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...
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There is an ongoing discussion especially among political scientists and economists whether and how climate variability affects civil conflicts and wars in developing countries. Given the predicted climatic changes, several studies argue that increasing temperatures or decreasing precipitation...
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