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Siebert, Horst - 2008

Kyoto Protocol, the perspectives for its successor and EU emission trading. The paper also reviews arrangements for …

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Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2012

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public goods. Equilibrium climate protection may depend more sensitively on either of these considerations, depending on the type of policy rule one examines. This conclusion is based on...

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Equity and justice in global warming policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008

mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such as the international Kyoto Protocol, post-Kyoto negotiations, regional …

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Climate Policy with Technology Transfers and Permit Trading

Helm, Carsten; Pichler, Stefan - 2011

In this paper, we analyze technology transfers (TT) and tradable emission rights, which are core issues of the ongoing climate negotiations. Subsidizing TT leads to the adoption of better abatement technologies in developing countries, thereby reducing the international permit price. This is...

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Compensation for Electricity Consumers Under a U.S. CO2 Emissions Cap

Paul, Anthony C. - 2014

Policies to cap emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the U.S. economy could pose significant costs on the electricity sector, which contributes roughly 40 percent of total CO2 emissions in the U.S. Using a detailed simulation model of the electricity sector, we evaluate alternative ways that...

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Regional and Sub-Global Climate Blocs. A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Bottom-Up Climate Regimes

Carraro, Carlo - 2012

highlights an unambiguous weakness of the Kyoto Protocol, where the aforementioned countries either have no binding emission … targets or have decided not to comply with their targets. Therefore, when discussing possible post-Kyoto scenarios, it is …

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Hot Air for Sale : A Quantitative Assessment of Russia's Near-Term Climate Policy Options

Böhringer, Christoph - 2008

-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions … market where greenhouse gas emission allowances of signatory Kyoto countries can be traded. In this paper we investigate the … implications of Russian market power for environmental effectiveness and regional compliance costs to the Kyoto Protocol taking …

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Emissions trading regimes and incentives to participate in international climate agreements

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo - 2003

This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China, that are most important in the climate negotiation...

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The economic and environmental implications of the US repudiation of the Kyoto protocol and the subsequent deals in Bonn and Marrakech

Löschel, Andreas; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2002

meet their revised Kyoto targets, and the environmental effectiveness. Our results show that the US withdrawal from the … Kyoto Protocol has had by far the greatest impact on the environmental effectiveness of the Protocol. This would lead to no … trading would drop to zero. While all remaining Kyoto-constrained Annex 1 countries would enjoy meeting their revised Kyoto …

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Implementing greenhouse gas trading in Europe : lessons from economic theory and international experiences

Boemare, Catherine; Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The European Commission (2001a) has recently presented a directive proposal to the Parliament and the Council in order to implement a tradable permits scheme. However, as stressed by the positive political economy, due to the influence of various interest groups, very few environmental policies...

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