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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies

Dellink, Rob; Hofkes, Marjan W. - 2015

This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...

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Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems

Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - 2012

The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international participation and significant global CO2 emissions...

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Coalition Formation and the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy

Finus, Michael - 2013

Several studies found ancillary benefits of environmental policy to be of considerable size. These additional private benefits imply not only higher cooperative but also noncooperative abatement targets. However, beyond these largely undisputed important quantitative effects, there are...

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The So2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 : Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Chan, Gabriel; Stavins, Robert N.; Stowe, Robert; … - 2013

The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...

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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?

Bréchet, Thierry - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe

Ščasný, Milan - 2016

This paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect … Europe by 76%. Discounted ancillary benefits are more than €2.5 trillion between 2015 and 2100. The monetary value of reduced … pollution is equal to €22 per abated ton of CO2 in Europe. Less strict climate policy scenarios generate overall smaller, but …

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Urban Sprawl and Air Quality in European Cities : An Empirical Assessment

Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2021

In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...

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