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Sector-Specific Activities as the Driving Force Towards a Low-Carbon Economy : From the Asia-Pacific Partnership to a Global Partnership

Fujiwara, Noriko - 2012

collection and management. This Policy Brief builds on the key findings of the study done for the Commission, incorporating … updated material and policy recommendations and specifying where EU involvement could be most effective …

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Why We Need Carbon Pricing : A Social and Environmental Accounting Perspective

Lodhia, Sumit K. - 2012

This paper justifies a need for carbon pricing through the academic social and environmental accounting perspective. An analytical approach is taken whereby current developments in carbon pricing are linked to the academic literature on social and environmental accounting. A need for carbon...

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Unilateral Carbon Taxes, Border Adjustments and Carbon Leakage

Elliott, Joshua - 2012

We examine the impact of a unilateral carbon tax in developed countries focusing on the expected size of carbon leakage (an increase in emissions in non-taxing regions as a result of the tax) and the effects on leakage of border tax adjustments. We start by analyzing the problem using a simple...

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The Relationship between Temperature and CO2 Emissions : Evidence from a Short and Very Long Dataset

McMillan, David G. - 2012

The debate regarding rising temperatures and CO2 emissions has attracted the attention of economists employing recent econometric techniques. This paper extends that literature through using a dataset that covers 800,000 years, as well as a shorter dataset, and examines the interaction between...

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Preliminary Assessment of Nitrous Oxide Offsets in a Cap and Trade Program

Ribaudo, Marc - 2012

Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that is emitted from cropland treated with nitrogen fertilizer. Reducing such emissions through nutrient management might be able to produce offsets for sale in a cap and trade program aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. We use the Nitrate Leaching and...

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Spillovers from Climate Policy

Holland, Stephen P. - 2010

Climate policy spillovers can be either positive or negative since firms change their production processes in response … benefits or costs has important implications for climate policy design, modeling, and benefit-cost analysis. This paper shows … climate policy. I then test for climate policy spillovers in electricity power generation. The estimates are consistent with …

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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages

Weitzman, Martin - 2010

A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...

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Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy

Sigman, Hilary - 2010

This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...

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Upstream Versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy

Mansur, Erin T. - 2010

This chapter examines the tradeoffs of regulating upstream (e.g., coal, natural gas, and refined petroleum product producers) versus regulating downstream (e.g., direct sources of greenhouse gases (GHG)). In general, regulating at the source provides polluters with incentives to choose among...

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Belts and Suspenders : Interactions Among Climate Policy Regulations

Levinson, Arik - 2010

between permit trading and other regulations will be complex. However, climate policy proposed for the U.S. will certainly …

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