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Level Versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments

Tian, Huifang - 2014

Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …

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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations

Tian, Huifang - 2014

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …

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What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2010

This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...

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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled after 100 Years

Stavins, Robert N. - 2010

The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet -- in regard to natural...

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Fat Tails, Thin Tails, and Climate Change Policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2010

Climate policy is complicated by the considerable compounded uncertainties over the costs and benefits of abatement. We don't even know the probability distributions for future temperatures and impacts, making cost-benefit analysis based on expected values challenging to say the least. There are...

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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields

Roberts, Michael J. - 2010

Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 and 2005. Climate change forecasts project a sharp...

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Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program

Fowlie, Meredith - 2010

U.S. adoption of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases could place some domestic producers at a disadvantage relative to international competitors who do not face similar regulation. To address this issue, proposed federal climate change legislation includes a provision that would freely...

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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change

Kaplow, Louis - 2010

This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...

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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Burgess, Robin - 2012

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...

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The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

Global climate change mitigation will require the development and diffusion of a large number and variety of new technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and international technology transfer in...

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