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Boon or Bane? : trade sanctions and the stability of international environmental agreements

Hagen, Achim; Schneider, Jan - 2017 - Draft Version, September 1, 2017

In spite of scientific agreement on the negative effects of anthropogenic climate change, efforts to find cooperative solutions on the international level have been unsatisfactory so far. Trade sanctions in the form of import tariffs are one principal measure discussed as a means to foster...

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China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System : A General Equilibrium Assessment

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Long, Xianling; Qu, Chenfei; Zhang, Da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's recently launched CO2 emissions trading system, already the world's largest, aims to contribute importantly toward global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The system, a tradable performance standard (TPS), differs importantly from cap and trade (C&T), the principal emissions...

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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - 2010

Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...

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Made to Measure: Options for Emissions Accounting under the UNFCCC

Prag, Andrew; Hood, Christina; Barata, Pedro Martins - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013

as well as from offset crediting mechanisms. The second area is accounting for emissions and removals from the forestry …

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Preliminary Evidence on Responses to the New Zealand Forestry Emissions Trading Scheme

Karpas, Eric; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2011

New Zealand is the first country to implement a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that includes a forestry … climate change agreement the Kyoto Protocol. The goal of this paper is to provide information o forestry’s role in the New … first provides a brief outline of the role of forestry in New Zealand’s ETS, including the reasons for its inclusion in the …

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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010

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Land Use and Climate Change Interactions

Mendelsohn, Robert; Dinar, Ariel - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 309-332

Land use and land-use change can result in the emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Climate change also affects the productivity of land, which in turn leads to further land-use change. This paper explores the growing research on both topics. The land-use emission literature...

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Capital-embodied technologies in CGE models

Lennox, James; Parrado, Ramiro - 2015

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used to analyse macroeconomic and sectoral effects of climate policies. Developing new and improving existing carbon-free energy technologies will be crucial to limit the long-term economic costs of mitigation policies. Such technologies are...

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A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Environmental Tax Reform in Japan

Takeda, Shiro - 2020

The Japanese government plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. However, it is not yet clear which policy measures the government will adopt to achieve this goal. In this regard, environmental tax reform, which is the combination of carbon regulation and the reduction of...

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Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country : an analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway

Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2021

We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, open economy joining the coalition, we scrutinise how the studied policy...

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