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Including maritime transport in the EU's climate change policy: Country-based allocation and effects

Heitmann, Nadine - 2013

The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime … bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming …'s emissions in the EU reduction commitment that is based on the nationality of a ship. Emissions that are generated by ships owned …

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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012

environmental tax reforms and greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes that have been implemented in the European Union. Section 4 …

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The SO2 allowance trading system: The ironic history of a grand policy experiment

Schmalensee, Richard; Stavins, Robert N. - 2012

this system to reduce SO2 emissions to curb acid rain, the government did the right thing for the wrong reason. Second, a …

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Should we be worried about the green paradox? Announcement effects of the acid rain program

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; van der Werf, Edwin - 2012

equal, induce an increase in sulfur dioxide emissions. Using data on prices, heat input and sulfur content of coal delivered …

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The "Doomsday" effect in climate policies: Why is the present decade so crucial to tackling the climate challenge?

Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Espagne, Etienne; Pottier, … - 2012

Despite growing scientific evidence that passing a 2êC temperature increase may trigger tipping points in climate dynamics, most Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) based on Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) with smooth quadratic damage functions are unable to account for the possibility of strong...

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Disentangling the Stern/Nordhaus controversy: Beyond the discounting clash

Espagne, Etienne; Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Pottier, … - 2012

The Stern/Nordhaus controversy has polarized the widely disparate beliefs about what to do in order to tackle the climate challenge. To explain differences in results and policy recommendations, comments following the publication of the Stern Review have mainly focused on the role played by the...

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Spatial climate-economic models in the design of optimal climate policies across locations

Brock, William A.; Engström, Gustav; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2012

We couple a one-dimensional energy balance climate model with heat transportation across latitudes, with an economic growth model. We derive temperature and damage distributions across locations and optimal taxes on fossil fuels which, in contrast to zero-dimensional Integrated Assessment...

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Carbon-based border tax adjustments and China's international trade: Analysis based on a dynamic computable general equilibrium model

Tang, Ling; Bao, Qin; Zhang, ZhongXiang; Wang, Shouyang - 2013

With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly …

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Tokyo's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme: A model for sustainable megacity carbon markets?

Rudolph, Sven; Kawakatsu, Takeshi - 2012

Megacities already account for a major part of global energy-related CO2 emissions with a strong tendency to increase …

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Regionaler Treibhausgas-Emissionshandel in den USA: Eine umweltökonomische Analyse der Erfahrungen und der Neuerungen in Kalifornien und Neuengland

Rudolph, Sven - 2013

In den USA, weltweit zweitgrößte Wirtschaftsmacht und gleichzeitig zweitgrößter Emittent von Treibhausgasen, war die Regierungsübernahme durch die Obama-Administration im Jahr 2008 geprägt von großen Hoffnungen nach der klimapolitischen Abstinenz der Bush-Regierung (Moslener/Sturm 2008,...

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