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aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive … justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i …
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aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive … justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i …. -- Economics of climate change ; intragenerational equity ; distributive justice …
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justice claims based on needs than towards culpability may serve as a fruitful starting point to depart from a purely egoistic …
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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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Concerns about fairness among countries remain significant obstacles to a stronger global climate treaty. This paper addresses the distributional implications of two mechanisms to strengthen the Paris Agreement: the incorporation of national carbon pricing, and the tightening of nationally...
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There is currently a consensus amongst the political establishment - and amongst the intellectual communities that feed into it - that detailed and wide-ranging government intervention is necessary to combat the effects of climate change. This monograph challenges that consensus. The authors...
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Carbon leakage is one of the major issues facing policymakers today when designing environmental regulation. While the empirical and trade literature on carbon leakage is rich, much less is known about the implications of carbon leakage risk on optimal regulatory policies under asymmetric...
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This paper analyses the role of ratification quotas in multilateral agreements over emission reduction. The higher is the quota, the lower is the level of emissions in case the agreement comes into force, but the higher is also the risk of failure. In a setting with incomplete information, two...
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