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Double Dividends of Additional Water Consumption Charges in South Africa
Letsoalo, Anthony; Blignaut, James; de Wet, Theunis Jacobus - 2005
South Africa is a water-scarce country with an average rainfall of 500 mm per year. It is estimated that national water demand will exceed supply by 2025. Increasing the water supply would be environmentally, financially or politically unfeasible. Impoverished communities, especially those in...
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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty: Taxes or tradable permits?
Quirion, Philippe - 2002
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335728
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Domestic climate policies and the WTO
Zhang, Zhongxiang; Assunção, Lucas - 2001
imposes a carbon tax, it may adjust taxes at the border to mitigate competitiveness effects of cheaper imports not subject to … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of … climate regimes.Against this background, this paper discusses carbon/energy taxes, subsidies, energy efficiency standards, eco …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608853
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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty : taxes or tradable permits?
Quirion, Philippe - 2002
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597628
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Paying for Climate Change Policies in Europe
Hersch, Joni; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012
Global climate change is of official concern at the national level throughout Europe and is mirrored in individual data. Examination of 1999 Eurobarometer survey data with respondents from 15 European countries indicates that respondents who are very worried about global warming risks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028305
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The optimal subsidy on electric vehicles in a metropolitan area : a SCGE study for Germany
Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2012
commuting, carbon emissions, endogenous labor supply, fuel and power taxes are considered and where we distinguish between fuel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517765
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Towards a comprehensive approach to climate policy, sustainable infrastructure, and finance
Bak, Céline; Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2017
The authors propose a policy package of low-carbon growth stimulation through a steep increase in sustainable infrastructure, mobilizing sustainable finance, and adoption of carbon pricing to simultaneously achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011673985
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The social cost of carbon and inequality : when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices
Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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The use of revenues from carbon pricing
Marten, Melanie; Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of … political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue use differ between carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise … taxes. Constraints are less common for excise taxes, which also raise the most revenue. Carbon tax revenues are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135991
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Towards a comprehensive approach to climate policy, sustainable infrastructure, and finance
Bak, Céline; Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2017
The authors propose a policy package of low-carbon growth stimulation through a steep increase in sustainable infrastructure, mobilizing sustainable finance, and adoption of carbon pricing to simultaneously achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750591