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National climate policies in times of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
Burmeister, Johannes; Peterson, Sonja - 2016
Given that the carbon price in the EU Emissions Trading System is only around 5€/tCO2 while consensus about a more … stringent EU climate policy is very unlikely in the near future, we explore the potential scope and optimal design of additional … national climate policies in the current EU policy framework. In particular, we suggest to implement a type of carbon price …
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Economic incentives for carbon dioxide storage under uncertainty : a real options analysis
Narita, Daiju; Klepper, Gernot - 2015
) emissions. However, there are still concerns about its economic viability, especially if the risk of leakage in the storage site … investment plan ignoring uncertainty would suggest. We also show under reasonable parameter assumptions that the risk for … investing in CO2 storage is dominated by the uncertain development of carbon prices, whereas the risk of carbon leakage has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280020
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Informed and uninformed opinions on new measures to address climate change
Kniebes, Carola; Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; … - 2014
risk attitude. …
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The need for local governance of global commons : the example of blue carbon ecosystems
Merk, Christine; Grunau, Jonas; Riekhof, Marie-Catherine; … - 2021
To limit global warming to 1.5°C, vast amounts of CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere via Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Enhancing the CO2 sequestration of ecosystems will require not just one approach but a portfolio of CDR options, including so-called nature-based approaches...
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The need for local governance of global commons : the example of blue carbon ecosystems
Merk, Christine; Grunau, Jonas; Riekhof, Marie-Catherine; … - 2021 - This draft: August 2022
To limit global warming to 1.5°C, vast amounts of CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere via Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Enhancing the CO2 sequestration of ecosystems will require not just one approach but a portfolio of CDR options, including so‐called nature‐based approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362396
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The impact of trade and trade policy on the environment and the climate : a review
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peterson, Sonja; Wanner, Joschka - 2022
While international trade can offer gains from specialization and access to a wider range of products, it is also closely interlinked with global environmental problems, above all, anthropogenic climate change. This survey provides a structured overview of the economic literature on the...
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Steuerbefreiung für Biokraftstoffe : ist Bio-Ethanol wirklich eine klimapolitische Option?
Henke, Jan Michael; Klepper, Gernot; Netzel, Jens - 2002
Im Juni 2002 hat der Deutsche Bundestag die Befreiung sämtlicher Biokraftstoffe von der Mineralölsteuer beschlossen. Eine solche Förderung von Biokraftstoffen wird von der Politik durch positive Effekte auf die Klima-, Energie- und Agrarpolitik gerechtfertigt. Das Arbeitspapier analysiert am...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490627
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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes
De Santis, Roberto A.; Stähler, Frank - 2000
This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473794
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Income inequality and risk taking
Schmidt, Ulrich; Neyse, Levent; Aleknonyte, Milda - 2015
Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent … experimental evidence however shows that the income of peers has a systematic impact on observed degrees of risk aversion. In … their peers. The present paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic analysis of income inequality and risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532452
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Eliciting preferences for public goods in non-monetized communities : accounting for preference uncertainty
Pondorfer, Andreas; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015
One major challenge when conducting contingent valuation studies in developing countries is the choice of the appropriate payment vehicle. Since regular cash-income does not exist for the majority of the population and market integration is low, households in rural areas have less experience...
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