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The Effect of Pricing Instruments on CO2 Emissions

Alberini, Anna; Kraynak, Daniel; Timilsina, Govinda - 2024

This study investigates the emission reduction effects of a mix of market-based climate policies in Australia, where a dramatic ramp-up of incentives for renewable electricity generation was paired with a short-lived carbon tax. A synthetic control method is employed to estimate the joint effect...

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Calculating the Carbon Footprint from Different Classes of Air Travel

Bofinger, Heinrich; Strand, Jon - 2013

This paper develops a new methodology for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business and first) classes depend heavily on the average class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike methods currently used for the purpose, the approach properly...

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An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources in India

Mani, Muthukumara S.; Markandya, Anil; Sagar, Aarsi - 2013

This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air … pollution. It also provides estimates based on three natural resource damage categories: (i) agricultural damage from soil …

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Rate of Return Regulation and Emission Permits Trading under Uncertainty

Huang, Tao; Zhang, Fan - 2015

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of rate-of-return regulation on firms’ emissions compliance behavior when the price of emissions permits is uncertain. The paper shows that uncertainty regarding the price of permits would motivate a regulated firm to adopt a more self-sufficient...

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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Selected Carbon Pricing Policies for the Arab Republic of Egypt

Sebsibie, Samuel; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2024

The Arab Republic of Egypt is the 24th largest carbon dioxide emitter from fossil fuel combustion in the world and the third largest emitter in the Middle East and North Africa region after the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Egypt has set a target of reducing one-third of its...

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Carbon Markets, Institutions, Policies, and Research

Larson, Donald F.; Ambrosi, Philippe; Dinar, Ariel - 2012

The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and...

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Temporary Sequestration Credits : An Instrument for Carbon Bears

Franck Lecocq; Kenneth M. Chomitz - 2003

Temporary crediting of carbon storage is a proposed instrument that allows entities with emissions reductions obligations to defer some obligations for a fixed period of time. This instrument provides a means of guaranteeing the environmental integrity of a carbon sequestration project. But...

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Addressing Household Air Pollution : A Case Study in Rural Madagascar

Dasgupta, Susmita; Martin, Paul; Samad, Hussain A. - 2013

Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households … monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations …

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Air Pollution During Growth : Accounting for Governance and Vulnerability

Dasgupta, Susmita; Hamilton, Kirk; Pandey, Kiran - 2013

New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …

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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms

Strand, Jon - 2016

This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...

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