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Carbon emissions trading and equity in international agreements
Bosello, Francesco; Roson, Roberto - 1999
An integrated assessment model is used to simulate the introduction of various emissions trading schemes based on the Kyoto protocol on the reduction of greenhouse emissions. The implications of the various systems in terms of income distribution are illustrated, and it is claimed that the issue...
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Model selection and tests for non nested contingent valuation models: An assessment of methods
Genius, Margarita; Strazzera, Elisabetta - 2001
Distributional assumptions are crucial in the estimation of the value of public projects assessed by means of contingent valuation analyses, and it would seem obvious that tests for model specification should play an important part in the statistical analysis. It can be observed, though, that...
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Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Economic Implications for the post-Kyoto Carbon Market
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Anger, Niels - 2008
from exporting carbon-offset credits to the industrialized world. Moreover, reduced deforestation can increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298025
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Interactions of Reduced Deforestation and the Carbon Market: The Role of Market Regulations and Future Commitments
Anger, Niels; Dixon, Alistair; Livengood, Erich - 2009
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits are environmentally equivalent to domestic emission...
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The tradable permits approach to protecting the commons: What have we learned?
Tietenberg, Tom - 2002
control, water supply and fisheries management. Opening with a brief summary of the theory behind these programs and both the … economic and environmental consequences anticipated by this theory, it proceeds with a description of the common elements these … consequences of adopting these approaches is juxtaposed with the expectations created by the economic theory of tradable permits …
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Nach Bali: wie sich China und die USA für den Klimaschutz gewinnen ließen
Kemfert, Claudia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 51/52, pp. 779-783
Die Klima-Konferenz in Bali ist zu Ende, der Weg zu einem neuen internationalen Klimaabkommen aber alles andere als klar. Doch schon heute steht fest: Die massive Absenkung der weltweiten Treibhausgasemissionen wird sich durch strikte Vorgaben allein wohl kaum erreichen lassen - dazu sind die...
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The impacts of emissions trading on world economies: Contemplation of baseline emissions paths and a ceiling on emissions trading
Kemfert, Claudia - 2000
emissions trading. World economic impacts are investigated by a world general equilibrium model including 11 international …
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Estimating the size of the potential market for the Kyoto flexibility machanisms
Zhang, Zhong Xiang - 2000
The Kyoto Protocol incorporates emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism to help Annex I countries to meet their Kyoto targets at a lower overall cost. This paper aims to estimate the size of the potential market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608572
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Meeting the Kyoto targets: The importance of developing country participation
Zhang, Zhong Xiang - 2001
This paper investigates the implications of progressively broadening the scope of the market of tradable permits from no emissions trading to full global trading. We start with the no emissions trading case where each Annex I country must individually meet its Kyoto targets. Next, we consider a...
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The Kyoto Protocol: A flawed concept
Cooper, Richard N. - 2001
The framework of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement for the world's rich countries to reduce their greenhouse gas …
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