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terms of equity for emerging countries. This approach also eliminates competitiveness and leakage issues. Copyright Springer … growth and competitiveness issues from industrialized countries. Our sectoral approach builds on three premises: (i) cap … total welfare and equity. It is shown that, for a minor global welfare loss, the Enhanced Sectoral Approach ranks high in …
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This paper examines the cost of a range of national, regional and global mitigation policies and the corresponding incentives for countries to participate in ambitious international mitigation actions. The paper illustrates the scope for available instruments to strengthen these incentives and...
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US climate policy is unfolding under the Clean Air Act. Mobile source and construction permitting regulations are in place. Most important, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the states will determine the form and stringency of the regulations for existing power plants. It is...
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Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...
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This essay is an initial exploration of the dimensions of the equity/sustainability linkage from the perspective of …, sustainability is at risk. Equity is a critical component of sustainability that can itself be viewed as a public good, subject to … benefits of maldistribution tend to overshadow the larger social costs, and the result is a degradation of equity. This article …
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effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. The latter three concepts have served as foci of theoretical discussions among economists who …
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This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
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competitiveness losses and the induced carbon leakages, the unfair distributional effects, the frauds and the existence of several … abatements. The competitiveness losses and carbon leakages do not seem to have occurred. The distributional effects have indeed …
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