Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from … correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem … unlikely to enhance welfare when placed alongside sufficient emissions pricing. The desirability of stringent EE policies is …

’s emissions peak is crucial to determine when global emissions would peak and because what China is going to do in what format has … many factors into consideration, the paper argues that China needs to take on absolute emissions caps around 2030. While … as to switch from rapid emissions growth to immediate emissions cuts, without passing through several intermediate phases …

2019. We then estimate committed emissions from existing and planned power plants - that is emissions that would result … from the normal operations of these plants during their typical lifetime - and compare them to emissions from power …). Natural gas power plants are the largest contributor to existing (62%) and planned (75%) emissions (versus 24% and 23% for …

emissions). Governments may have some preference for supporting domestic production, such as by interest-group lobbying …

world where carbon pricing is imperfect and the regulator seeks to limit emissions to a (cumulative) target. We use a global …, we show that small deviations from the second-best subsidy can lead to strong increases in emissions and consumption …

Policies aimed at reducing emissions from fossil fuels may increase climate damages. This "Green Paradox" emerges if …