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This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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For any emission trading system (ETS) with quantity-based endogenous supply of allowances, there exists a negative … green paradox for a general model and then apply it to the details of EU ETS. In 2018, new rules for a Market Stability … model disciplined on the price rise in the EU ETS that followed the introduction of the MSR. …
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For many governments enacting green policies is a priority, but these often entail substantial and uneven costs on citizens. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan. The policy was...
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We study the variation of global and unilateral carbon price recommendations and their determinants. To this end, we provide survey evidence on carbon pricing from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. We quantify the extent of (dis-)agreement and reveal that a majority of experts...
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effect arising from unilateral policy under the EU-ETS. Quantifying these risks we find that to be on the "safe side" target … certificates and forming coalitions with other countries is essential to reduce the risk that EU climate policy will renationalize. …
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In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions - the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European … Council - was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its three main targets: lower greenhouse gas emissions, higher renewable share in …
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aggregate information. It allows policy makers to modify existing institutions to achieve more efficient emission reductions …
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-based technologies (e.g., electric vehicles and heat pumps), thus raising the demand for emission allowances and their price in the … electricity sector. This induces emission reductions in the electricity sectors of the other countries covered under the ETS … separate ETS, as it is planned for the EU. We examine this in a stylized analytical model and use a computable general …
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stimulate the sustainable economic development of EU Member States. The ESIF budget is about 90 billion euros annually and ESIF …
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testable conditions as to whether a governmental emission-reduction commitment warrants the exploitation of gas, and whether … of the world's emission commitments more difficult to meet. Finally, we apply our results to the case of the US. …
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