Showing 1 - 10 of 495
This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608327
Questions of burden sharing receive increasing attention in the climate change regime. This paper introduces the WESA-mechanism (WESA = Walrasian Equilibrium with the Stand Alone upper bound) for the fair division of common property resources and monetary compensations. Furthermore, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608509
This paper explores the relationship between rationality and equity in an intergenerational context of greenhouse gas emission reduction. It is shown that the least-cost trajectory to a constraint on cumulative emissions implies an upward-sloping emission reduction effort, in most cases, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608371
local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for … demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272383
This paper concerns optimal emissions of greenhouse gases when catastrophic consequences are possible. A numerical model is presented which takes into account both continuous climate-feedback damages as well as the possibility of a catastrophic outcome. The uncertainty in the model concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608379
The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between … agreements between authorities and polluters. Design and results of a laboratory environmental policy experiment on air pollution … new institution for environmental pollution management in practice is the most important result. The case also shows the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608597
applied in a numerical example with two regions (EU and CEECs) and two goods (pollution intensive good A and clean good B …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608816
The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608482
This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312375
Climate change would impact different countries differently, and different countries have different levels of development. Equity-weighted estimates of the (marginal) impact of greenhouse gas emissions reflect these differences. Equity-weighted estimates of the marginal damage cost of carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312306