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The Political Economy of International Emissions Trading Scheme Choice : Empirical Evidence

Boom, Jan-Tjeerd; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - 2001

The Kyoto Protocol allows international emissions trading, which could take place in three different forms: government …

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Chapter 9. Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 355-435). 2003

Environmental policies typically combine the identification of a goal with some means to achieve that goal. This chapter focuses exclusively on the second component, the means – the “instruments” – of environmental policy, and considers, in particular, experience around the world with...

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Warming Up to Water Markets

Adler, Jonathan H. - 2014

Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...

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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives

Böhringer, Christoph - 2003

International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally … that, even without any effective emission reductions in the initial commitment period, the ratification of Kyoto is … important for the further policy process of climate protection. The Kyoto Protocol has established a flexible broad …

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Stability of Climate Coalitions in a Cartel Formation Game

Finus, Michael; van Ierland, Ekko; Dellink, Rob - 2003

We empirically test stability of climate change coalitions with the STAbility of Coalitions model (STACO). The model comprises twelve world regions and captures important dynamic aspects of the climate change problem. We apply the stability concept of internal and external stability to a cartel...

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Projections and Uncertainties About Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies

Nordhaus, William D. - 2016

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations. Yet nations have to date taken minimal policies to slow climate change. Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data. The current study uses the updated DICE...

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Overstraining international climate finance: when conflicts of objectives threaten its success

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2020

Expectations concerning international climate finance have increased considerably. In particular, provisions for international transfer schemes are an important element in the Paris Agreement. Yet, climate finance is not only seen as a tool to efficiently combat global warming, but also to solve...

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From Global to Polycentric Climate Governance

Cole, Daniel H. - 2011

on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions …

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Screening and Adverse Selection in the Market for Voluntary Emission Reductions

Hunter, Greg W. - 2010

Tradable voluntary emission reductions (VER’s), often called “offsets”, are a policy instrument designed to expand participation in emission cap regulations. In theory, voluntary reductions by unrestricted sources used as a substitute for increases in emissions, or unmet emission reduction...

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Sticks and carrots for the design of international climate agreements with renegotiations

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob B. - 2008

This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...

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