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The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change: An Application of Fund

Tol, Richard S.J. - 2006

I compare and contrast five climate scenarios: (1) no climate policy; (2) non-cooperative cost-benefit analysis (NC CBA); (3) NC CBA with international permit trade; (4) NC CBA with joint and several liability for climate change damages; and (5) NC CBA with liability proportional to a country's...

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Marginal External Costs of Peak and Non Peak Urban Transport in Belgium

De Nocker, Leo; Vergote, Stef; Vinckx, Luc; Wouters, Guido - 1999

This paper discusses intermediate results of an ongoing research project to estimate all external costs from all transport modes in Belgium. It gives estimates of the marginal external costs of air pollution from urban transport. The evaluation of the environmental impacts is based on the...

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Urban Environmental Health and Sensitive Populations: How Much are the Italians Willing to Pay to Reduce Their Risks?

Alberini, Anna; Chiabai, Aline - 2005

We use contingent valuation to elicit WTP for a reduction in the risk of dying for cardiovascular and respiratory causes, the most important causes of premature mortality associated with heat wave and air pollution, among the Italian public. The purpose of this study is three-fold. First, we...

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The Allure of Technology: How France and California Promoted Electric Vehicles to Reduce Urban Air Pollution

Calef, David; Goble, Robert - 2005

All advanced industrialized societies face the problem of air pollution produced by motor vehicles. In spite of striking improvements in internal combustion engine technology, air pollution in most urban areas is still measured at levels determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the...

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Is Kyoto fatally flawed? An analysis with MacGEM

Eyckmans, Johan; Van Regemorter, Denise; Van … - 2002

In this paper we present some numerical simulations with the MacGEM model to evaluate the consequences of the recent Marrakesh agreements and the defection of the USA for the Kyoto Protocol. MacGEM is a global marginal abatement cost model for carbon emissions from fossil fuel use based on the...

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How can economies in transition pursue emissions trading or joint implementation?

Missfeldt, Fanny; Villavicenco, Arturo - 2002

Under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, economies in transition are eligible for both emissions trading (Article 17) and joint implementation (Article 6). Guiding rules for implementing these mechanisms were decided through the Marrakech Accords in November 2001. These countries may benefit substantially...

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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty: Taxes or tradable permits?

Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...

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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development

Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000

Within this paper, we analyse the fulfilment of the Kyoto-emissions reduction com-mitment exemplary in Germany and its implication on long-term paths of all macro-variables. Germany, like all other industrial or Annex B coun-tries, has to reduce its emissions by 2010 and after what we call a...

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The Allocation of European Union Allowances: Lessons, Unifying Themes and General Principles

Buchner, Barbara K.; Carraro, Carlo; Ellerman, A. Denny - 2006

(EU ETS), i.e. in the world's first experience with allocating carbon allowances to sub-national entities. We discuss the … allocation process and on what are the global implications of the EU ETS. As has become obvious during the first allocation phase …

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Governance and Environmental Policy Integration in Europe: What Can We learn from the EU Emission Trading Scheme?

Catenacci, Michela; Buchner, Barbara; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2007

The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) is a landmark environmental policy, representing the world's first … participation and flexible abatement strategies make the EU ETS a powerful instrument of cross sectoral integration of environmental … governance. The EU ETS shows characteristics of the decision making processes and institutions engaged, the tools and instruments …

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