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Will joint implementation survive international emissions trading? Distinguishing the Kyoto mechanisms

Janssen, Josef - 2000

-based Kyoto Mechanisms Joint Implementation, Clean Development Mechanism and International Emissions Trading. What strikes at …The Kyoto Protocol stipulates that industrialised countries and countries with economies in transition, i.e. the group … order to meet these targets cost-effectively, at an international level the Kyoto Protocol allows the use of the market …

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The Impact of Surplus Sharing on The Stability of International Climate Agreements

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; … - 2004

This paper analyses stability of coalitions for greenhouse gas abatement for different sharing rules applied to the gains from co-operation. We use a 12-regions model designed to examine internal and external stability of coalitions (STACO). We compare different sharing rules like, for example,...

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New Roads to International Environmental Agreements: The Case of Global Warming

Finus, Michael; Eyckmans, Johan - 2003

We analyze with an integrated assessment model of climate change the formation of interna-tional environmental agreements (IEAs) by applying the widely used concept of inter-nal & external stability and several modifications of it. We relax the assumptions of a single agreement and open...

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Interactions between Climate and Trade Policies: A Survey

Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004

Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...

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Climate Uncertainty and the Necessity to Transform Global Energy Supply

van der Zwaan, Bob; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

This paper analyses the policy relevance of the dominant uncertainties in our current scientific understanding of the terrestrial climate system, and provides further evidence for the need to radically transform - this century - our global infrastructure of energy supply, given the global...

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Estimating the size of the potential market for the Kyoto flexibility machanisms

Zhang, Zhong Xiang - 2000

The Kyoto Protocol incorporates emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism to help … Annex I countries to meet their Kyoto targets at a lower overall cost. This paper aims to estimate the size of the potential … market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol over the first commitment period 2008-2012, both on the …

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Optimal Transfers and Participation Decisions in International Environmental Agreements

Carraro, Carlo; Eyckmans, Johan; Finus, Michael - 2005

The literature on international environmental agreements has recognized the role transfers play in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs), but the few results achieved so far are overly specific and do not exploit the full potential of transfers for successful...

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International Cooperation to Resolve International Pollution Problems

Finus, Michael - 2004

This article provides a non-technical overview of important results of the game theoretical literature on the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) on transboundary pollution control. It starts out by sketching features of first and second best solutions to the...

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Heterogeneous international agreements: If per capita emission levels matter

Lange, Andreas - 2002

This paper studies the incentives for international cooperation if (some) countries prefer a more equitable distribution of per capita emission levels. The impact of such an equity preference is analyzed first for a bilateral, and then for a multilateral environmental problem. We show that -...

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Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise

Roson, Roberto; Bosello, Francesco; Lazzarin, Marco; … - 2004

The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Overall, general equilibrium effects increase the costs of sea level rise, but not necessarily in every sector or region. In the absence of coastal protection, economies...

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