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Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2010

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

We examine an implication of the “Coase Theorem” which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the...

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Using the Market to Address Climate Change : Insights from Theory and Experience

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2011

Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate policy will have to modify the decision calculus for these activities in the...

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The So2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 : Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Chan, Gabriel; Stavins, Robert N.; Stowe, Robert; … - 2013

The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...

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Adaptation, Mitigation and 'Green' R&D to Combat Global Climate Change. Insights from an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...

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Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture

Jaffe, Judson L.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2009

Cap-and-trade systems have emerged as the preferred national and regional instrument for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism - an international emission-reduction-credit system - has developed a substantial constituency,...

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Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems

Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - 2012

The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international participation and significant global CO2 emissions...

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Macro-Economic Impact Assessment of Future Changes in European Marine Ecosystem Services

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project. The main scope of the project (2011 … the EU marine ecosystem in the medium term (2030). We focus on those changes potentially affecting the fishing and the … marine ecosystem quality.Impacts on EU coastal countries Gross Domestic Product are negative and larger when the tourism …

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On the quality of emission reductions : observed effects of carbon pricing on investments, innovation, and operational shifts : a response to van den Bergh and Savin (2021)

Lilliestam, Johan; Patt, Anthony G.; Bersalli, Germán - In: Environmental and resource economics 83 (2022) 3, pp. 733-758

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Assessing macro-economic effects of climate impacts on energy demand in EU sub-national regions

Standardi, Gabriele; Dasgupta, Shouro; Parrado, Ramiro; … - In: Environmental and resource economics 86 (2023) 1/2, pp. 173-201

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