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Do carbon offsets offset carbon?
Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2021
We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies, and use it to provide systematic evidence on … the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism - the world's largest carbon offset program. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650589
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Do carbon offsets offset carbon?
Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655857
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Commitment vs. Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - 2017
-contingent renewable subsidies outperforms both unconditional commitment and discretion. The choice between the practically more feasible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615910
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Commitment Versus Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - In: Environmental and Resource Economics 76 (2020) 1, pp. 39-67
To decarbonize the power sector, policy-makers need to commit to long-term credible rules for climate and energy policy. Otherwise, risk of opportunistic policy-making will impair investments into low-carbon technologies. However, the future benefits and costs of decarbonization are subject to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503446
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Commitment vs. discretion in climate and energy policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - 2017
-contingent renewable subsidies outperforms both unconditional commitment and discretion. The choice between the practically more feasible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611130
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Follow the Sun! How Investments in Solar Power Plants in Sicily can Generate High Returns of Investments and Help to Prevent Global Warming
Schinke, Jan Chrisitan - 2015
energies and why policy maker can justify the subsidies for selected technologies through social costs effected by carbon … political recommendations for the design of further subsidies of solar energies in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038679
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Wind, storage, interconnection and the cost of electricity generation
Di Cosmo, Valeria; Malaguzzi Valeri, Laura - 2017
subsidies using the Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM) as a test system, with hourly data from 1 January 2008 to 28 August … after including the cost of subsidies given to wind generation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011614204
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Inducing private finance for renewable energy projects : evidence from micro-data
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel; Haščič, Ivan; … - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of government policies on flows of private finance for investment in renewable energy … investment, governments wishing to secure project completion have no other choice than to support projects directly through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415493
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Law, Policy, and the Future of Solar Financing
Payne, Heather - 2017
All forms of renewable energy are at an inflection point. Falling costs, changing technology, and new environmental and climate regulations have all moved to exponentially increase the growth of renewable energy. How legal terms, such as "qualifying facility" under PURPA are interpreted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964822
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Public Interventions and Private Climate Finance Flows: Empirical Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing
Haščič, Ivan; Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel; Jachnik, … - 2015
This study uses a unique dataset of investment flows to analyse the role of two categories of public interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447290