Developed countries are responsible for a great share of the historical carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere. The need to reduce CO2 emissions is now widely accepted, but how this can be accomplished is still controversial and debated. Considering the growing size of the carbon...

The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that per-manently...

This note provides an overview of the climate change policy in the United States. A first section is dedicated to the description of the state of play and the possible trends in the US domestic policy. The second section is aimed to provide an overview of the US position in the international...