"carbon leakage". On the other hand, if the countries which abate CO2 emissions are net fossil fuel importers, they benefit …, together with many others, when deciding to what extent CCS should be developed. -- CO2 Capture and Storage ; Carbon Leakage …

economic inertia, optimal abatement efforts (in dollars per ton) are bell-shaped and trigger a transition toward a low-carbon … carbon price, but also on sector-specific shadow costs of the sectoral abatement potential. The paper discusses the impact of … argument that they set different marginal costs (‘“different carbon prices”’) in different sectors …

is obtained though abatement expenditures chosen along an abatement cost curve, or through investment in low-carbon … carbon emissions, minus the value of the forgone option to invest later. It is therefore misleading to assess the cost …-efficiency of investments in low-carbon capital by comparing levelized abatement costs, that is, efforts measured as the ratio of …

strategies: a regulation of all emissions with a carbon price and a regulation of emissions embedded in new capital only, using … capital-based instruments such as investment regulation, differentiation of capital costs, or a carbon tax with temporary … possibly through under-utilization of brown capital. Capital-based instruments and the carbon price lead to the same long …

. Meeting short-term targets with marginal energy-efficiency improvements would lead to carbon-intensive lock-ins that make … infrastructure and zero-carbon technologies …

This paper covers three policy-relevant aspects of the carbon content of electricity that are well established among … requires electricity to be almost carbon-free by the end of the century. As such, the question for policy makers is not whether … some of the key zero-carbon technologies-such as nuclear power or carbon capture and storage-turn out to be unavailable …