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Economic prospects of ocean iron fertilization in an international carbon market

Rickels, Wilfried; Rehdanz, Katrin; Oschlies, Andreas - 2009

To stay within the 2°C temperature increase target for climate change calls for ambitious emission reduction targets already for the 2012-2020 compliance period. Cost-efficiency is a crucial criterion for the enforcement of such ambitious targets, requiring analyses of all possible abatement...

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The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change : An Application of Fund

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2006

I compare and contrast five climate scenarios: (1) no climate policy; (2) non-cooperative cost-benefit analysis (NC CBA); (3) NC CBA with international permit trade; (4) NC CBA with joint and several liability for climate change damages; and (5) NC CBA with liability proportional to a country's...

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The 2018 reform of EU ETS : consequences for Project Appraisal

Johansson, Per-Olov - 2020

to be a cap-and-trade scheme with a fixed supply of permits. However, a recent reform of the system "punctures the … waterbed" by making the supply of permits endogenous. The current paper discusses how to handle permits in economic evaluations … project causes an induced intertemporal change in the supply of permits under an endogenous cap. An induced reduction in …

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Project appraisal in the reformed EU ETS : looking for shortcuts

Johansson, Per-Olov - 2020

into a system with an endogenous supply of permits. This paper discusses how to handle the scheme in project appraisal. The … endogenous supply of permits is affected by an exogenous change in emissions. A particularly surprising feature of the reformed … evaluations of projects affecting the supply of permits. For convenient reference, the paper also lays out the mechanics of the …

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The social cost of carbon emissions : seven propositions

Foley, Duncan K.; Rezai, Armon; Taylor, Lance - In: Economics letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 90-97

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Influence of climate conditions on tax revenues

Mutascu, Mihai - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 315-328

In this paper, we investigate the effects of climate conditions on collected tax revenues, based on a panel-model approach. The dataset includes 123 countries and covers the period 1996-2010. The main results demonstrate that climate has a significant impact on tax revenues, the assumed function...

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How Expensive Should CO<sub>2</sub> Be? Fuel for the Debate on Optimal Climate Policy

Poelhekke, Steven - 2017

Most people are convinced that climate change is a threat and that it should somehow be dealt with. It is also clear that CO2 emissions are still too cheap and must be priced higher to sufficiently curtail emissions. Yet how high should a carbon tax be? Answering this question requires...

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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change

Hübler, Michael - 2009

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Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price

Richardson, Nathan D.; Fraas, Arthur G. - 2013

Over the last half decade, a variety of federal legislative proposals for limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been put forward, most of which would set a price on carbon. As of early 2013, the one politically plausible policy appears to be a carbon tax, passed as part of a larger fiscal...

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Public finance resilience in the transition towards carbon neutrality : Modelling policy instruments in a global net-zero emissions

Fouré, Jean - 2023

This paper presents a detailed economic modelling analysis of public finance in the transition towards carbon neutrality. It outlines results from a Net-Zero Emission Ambition scenario, which reflects the ambition to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions globally by mid-century, using a...

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